simon walker is chief executive at marquee tv. and, simon, for listeners who don t know, what exactly is marquee tv? thank you, katie, good to be here. marquee tv is netflix for the performing arts but, as i think we ll discuss, that shorthand doesn t work any more when netflix has eaten the world. so i like to think of us as the ultimate arts companion in this niche of lovers of performing arts and culture. thanks, we ll talk about that later. julia alexander, you are a senior strategy analyst at parrot analytics, welcome. and i believe you also co host the podcast downstream what sort of things do you cover in that? absolutely, i look at the shifting trends and shifting strategic moves in hollywood as they prepare for tomorrow and move away from the past. wow, love the sound of that. we will also talk to you both later, but also here is kamal ahmed, editor in chief of the news movement, a new venture. until earlier this year, kamal was the bbc s
is princess leia, and i can t work it out. well, i m about to pitch myself. as princess leia ? ..to new streamers as the return of the jedi. there s going to be a third phase, is my view, and our view at marquee tv basically the media s polarised, you ll have these big buckets of content for $10 a month, and whether you choose to get it from disney or netflix, or amazon, or peacock, or whoever that general entertainment brand that sort of replicates the core of your cable the middle ground is really challenged, and that s why we have this big debate in the country about channel 4. what s the point of channel 4? well, if you are in britain, there s a lot of point to it. if you re outside of the uk, it s irrelevant. and at the other end of the spectrum, the opportunity for entrepreneurs like me, is in the globalfashion niche there s ballet on youtube, but they aren t building a brand for ballet. and i think that what s interesting about the next phase of growth here
time for the media show. hello. last week s attack in liverpool leads our conversation today. how do you report responsibly on an incident like that? when is the right moment to use the word terrorism ? and is the doorstep morally wrong? also on the media show a new streaming service launched on sky this week. can the traditional tv stations claw back an audience from netflix and disney? let s start by introducing today s guests. simon walker is chief executive at marquee tv. and, simon, for listeners who don t know, what exactly is marquee tv? thank you, katie, good to be here. marquee tv is netflix for the performing arts but, as i think we ll discuss, that shorthand doesn t work any more when netflix has eaten the world. so i like to think of us as the ultimate arts companion
simon walker, you re in europe, in the uk. you re the chief executive of marquee tv. i guess you re at the high culture end, you know, broadcasting the likes of opera and ballet how do you fit into the market alongside the giants? thanks, katie. if you indulge me with some historical perspective, i m old enough that i ve seen the beginning and middle of the streaming wars i was the bbc s first head of on demand in 1997, would you believe, when there really wasn t any on demand. at that point in time, netflix had just launched and did ten more years. i remember doing a piece on channel 4 news where the question was, can netflix work back when it launched. i think i thought it would, but there were doubts. i hope you bought shares. sadly not. obviously they were another ten years, 2007, before they actually started to do on demand. and there was a really interesting phase where the original broadcasters like the bbc were very