Tom Harrington was quoted in The Telegraph on "BBC toppled from TV podium as Olympics coverage stumbles"
27 July 2021Tom said "The BBC shares the TV rights to the Six Nations rugby with ITV and co-produces dramas with the American streaming services - that is what it has to do now."
He added "The BBC is not getting any more money, but the cost [of acquiring rights and making programmes] is getting more expensive. It can only deliver less when the income from the [157.50] annual licence fee is the same."
Francois Godard was quoted in Les Echos on "Netflix anticipates limited growth in subscribers"
22 July 2021Francois said “Nothing catastrophic, but it's a return to reality. It is obvious that growth was going to slow down after last year's boom. Demand is not infinitely expandable: in the United States, Netflix is already very present while in Europe, the potential is lower. The whole question is whether they can still invest so heavily in content in the future, given this slower growth."
He added "Netflix seems to have reached the saturation of its market in the United States", adds Eric Haggstrom, analyst at eMarketer, quoted by AFP, noting that "Netflix has lost significant market share against Disney."
Gill Hind was quoted in The Hollywood Reporter on "Chaos Reigns on U.K. Film and TV Sets as COVID-19 Cases Soar"
21 July 2021Gill said “If they don’t stick to [the guidelines], they might lose the compensation they get when production is delayed, and they are sort of incentivized to stick to those. If you are not actually sticking to the guidelines, you probably lose that compensation.”
She added “So people are going to be able to come back to work pretty quickly. And if you are immediately off, then your colleagues don’t get infected with it. So I think the industry has done pretty well.”
Gill Hind was quoted in The Telegraph on "Broadcasters must better reflect Britain's diversity, watchdog warns"
16 July 2021Gill said “There's been a lot of stuff that Ofcom have done in the past with the industry as well about actually trying to understand the number of different ethnicities that are employed behind the screens, in front of camera, on the production side [and] across the entire industry."
Jamie said GB News had succeeded in winning over a dedicated audience even if viewing numbers were below what the channel might have hoped for.
“It is becoming clear that fewer and fewer are experimenting with the channel, but it is finding a core audience.There was always going to be a launch pop and then a decline."
Claire Enders was quoted in The Times on "Sky-high valuations create a new media bubble"
12 July 2021Claire said it felt like a “renaissance [in media] that is just getting going."
“There’s an awful lot of liquidity in the US market in particular, and huge amounts of consolidation there. It’s basically incredibly cheap debt."
Julian said "With the increasing fragmentation of viewing across different platforms, ITV remains one of the few places advertisers can go to reach mass audiences simultaneously, which is why it commands such a premium for its airtime during a big event such as an England football game.”