[Rijowhi]

People are underestimating how confusing this will be for many people. I know many  people who don’t know how to type something into a Tv or access an built in app or use a fire stick. It’s way more of a change than digital switchover.

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It’s not April though. I hardly think it’s an unrealistic if we look at how viewing habits have changed in the last decade and that’s likely to be accelerated over the next. 

It doesn’t make sense for this not be the next change.

Habits have changes for many people but a lot of people still watch entirely linear and those are the people without the technical skills to easily cope with this.

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Not "many":

Ofcom say:


FWA being a reference to fixed wireless, i.e. 4G/5G or specially built wireless networks.

The BBC's press release specifically references Freeview, probably as it is very costly to run - so how many of the 83k are somehow so rural that they can't get broadband (and won't by the time this actually happens), somehow receive good Freeview service today, and somehow couldn't get Freesat?

A lot more people can’t get broadband that is fast enough to stream one programme at a time let alone more than one at a time.

Also live events is still a minute behind. No way will people be able for sport to be so far behind and people at the event to have plenty of time to tweet a development before they see it.

For that very reason I still think at least one linear BBC TV channel will exist for some time yet. I also think that at least one TV channel will continue for many years due to the Beeb’s PSB responsibilities that should be available to everyone (same with ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5).

To be honest I’m in the camp that feels some of the TV side of the BBC (BBC1 especially) veers too much into commercial TV territory. However that’s not to say they shouldn’t make any programmes to entertain! How the BBC is funded is going to be interesting in the future…will we see the proposed split between BBC TV (PSB programming)/Radio and the i-player?