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TV channel strategies on Internet

Innovation Reports - 11/01/2008 TV channel strategies on Internet

Offers, business models

Faced with a slowing growth rate of ad revenue for the small screen and the rising popularity of off-the-grid viewing, TV channel operators are working to forge themselves a position on the web to take advantage of the huge increase in advertising investments in this medium. Capitalising on the strength of their media brands, broadcasters are offering new TV services online. This “new media” strategy, which is being deployed by TV channels across the board in North America and Europe, is forcing changes in media chronology, new business models and a change in the TV broadcaster and aggregator businesses – moving from the delivery of a push type TV service to the distribution of programmes in pull mode, while working to create a more personalised and interactive relationship with viewers.


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Contents

1 - Evolution of the TV industry




1.1 Television: mass media benchmark

1.2 New TV viewing patterns
• Segmentation of the TV offer helped maintain overall viewing figures…
• … but has reduced the top channels’ audience
• Prime time audience is shrinking, but the slot is still central
• On-demand and time-shifted viewing on the rise

1.3 TV market revenue: fundamental components still stable, for now
• Pay-TV driving market growth, but the video sector losing steam
• Traditional TV advertising market reaching maturity
• The internet not a direct threat to the TV advertising market

1.4 IP: spurring changes in the TV distribution sector
• Increased negotiating clout for the production business?
• Are operations-side and aggregation businesses and revenue under threat?
• Multiplication of TV distribution channels
• Increasing role of the viewing device
• New applications



 



2 - Leading TV industry player strategies




2.1 TV channel positioning
• Digital distribution strategy
• Business model
• Brand strategy
• Content strategy



 



Case studies: top TV channels



• ABC
• Antena 3
• Fox
• M6



• NBC
• ProSiebenSat1
• TF1



Interviews with



• ABC
• Antena 3
• Endemol
• Fox
• France Télévisions
• Lagardère Active
• M6
• ProSiebenSat.1
• TF1




3 - The challenges for TV channels




3.1 Is the media chronology changing?

3.2 Reducing dependence on TV commercials and monetising new TV offers
• New ad models on the web
• Taking advantage of pay-TV, television’s growth driver

3.3 Will TV channels need to rethink their programming schedules?

3.4 A new strategy for controlling content

3.5 Gaining control over TV content aggregation



 

• Television companies’ online offerings
• B2B, B2C and B2B2C offers and diversification operations
• Impact in terms of vertical integration, control over rights and programming
• Competition with telcos and portals over content aggregation
• Detailed case studies of leading players from the United States and Europe: ABC, NBC, Fox, TF1, ProSiebenSat1, M6, Antena 3
• Has the mass media advertising model changed?
• Who will benefit from off the grid TV viewing?
• Can channels’ programming expertise be exported to the web?
• Do channels need to become online operators and aggregators?
• Are B2B and B2C strategies mutually exclusive?
• Do programming schedules need to evolve?
• Is the vertical integration of production necessary?
• Is a new media chronology taking shape?
Media groups/TV channels
• Identifying the key issues in distributing TV content on the internet
• Understanding how to take advantage of an online TV content distribution strategy

Online content providers
• Assessing the development outlook for broadcasting TV programmes on the web
• Understanding the B2C, B2B and B2B2C business models of online content distribution platforms

Internet companies
• Identifying the major innovations in new services
• Understanding traditional TV companies’ positioning on the internet

Telcos
• Analysing the impact of IP network development on TV distribution
• Planning possible partnerships with media and internet companies

Investors and analysts
• Assessing the economic potential of new online TV content distribution platforms
• Analysing the new ecosystem created by TV channel distribution on the web


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