Commercial media outfits are rushing to bulk up.Warner Media, creator of “Game of Thrones”, “Harry Potter” and other hits, has announced plans to merge with Discovery.France’s largest and third-largest channels, TF1 and M6, will also try to merge, to provide une reponse francaise to the Americans.The BBC has teamed up with ITV, Britain’s biggest commercial broadcaster, to run BritBox, an international streaming service.With 2.6m subscribers it is a minnow.No big streamer does news, an area where the BBC remains strong.Last year 70% of Britons with internet access said they had absorbed its reports in one medium or another during the past week, according to the Reuters Institute at Oxford University;among 18- to 24-year-olds the figure was 51%.This represents a drop since 2015, when 79% of all adults and 68% of young people tuned in.But the BBC remains “undoubtedly, and by a massive margin” the main source of news in Britain, says Rasmus Nielsen of the Reuters Institute.The corporation is at least stronger than other national broadcasters, which have seen similar declines in reach.Fully 86% of Britons say they are satisfied with their public-service media,versus between 50% and 61% of French, German, Spanish and Italian viewers.
商业媒体公司正争相壮大。《权力的游戏》、《哈利波特》和其他热门剧集的制作公司华纳传媒宣布了与Discovery探索频道合并的计划。法国最大的频道TF1和第三大的频道M6也将尝试合并，以此对美国竞品作出法国的回应。英国广播公司与英国最大的商业广播公司ITV合作，运营国际流媒体服务BritBox。但只拥有260万用户的BritBox还无足轻重。由于没有其他大型流媒体公司涉足新闻领域，BBC仍保持一家独大。据牛津路透社研究所统计，去年有70%的英国网民表示，他们在过去的一周里通过一种或多种媒介收听过BBC的新闻报道。在18岁至24岁的群体中，收听比例为51%。该收听比例相较2015年的数据有所下降，当时有79%的成年人和68%的年轻人收听BBC新闻。但路透社研究所的拉斯穆斯・尼尔森表示，毫无疑问，BBC仍以绝对优势成为英国的主要新闻来源。BBC至少要强于其他国家广播公司，后者的影响范围也出现了类似的下降。足足86%的英国人表示对本国的公共服务媒体公司感到满意，相比之下，法国、德国、西班牙和意大利观众感到满意的比例在50%到61%之间。
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