German broadcasters are finally embracing the concept of on demand television.
Conrad Albert, head of regulatory affairs at ProSiebenSat.1, told the ANGA COM congress broadcasters were no longer scared of non-linear broadcasts, but traditional distribution methods would still be relavant.
“Last Wednesday if we had run Germany’s Next Top Model over OTT we’d have a problem…we’d have needed to double capacity and Frankfurt’s entire broadband infrastructure would have collapsed.”
Tom Buhrow, director of public broadcaster WDR said viewing to the popular Sunday evening crime drama Tatort continued on demand, but while the first 24 hours were high, audiences then tailed off.
The Sunday evening crime drama gets high viewers in the first 24 hrs but really tails off after that.
