Independents’ day
6 questions facing today’s independent producers and some thoughts on potential answers
Friday 05 April 2013Report
Content producers face rising rights and talent costs as they try to acquire a distinctive edge in a world of over-supplied “me too” vanilla content.
Independent TV producers specifically have a big challenge controlling these costs given their revenues are constrained by the well documented issues facing their broadcast clients.
In this paper OC&C considers six key questions facing the management and shareholders of our independent production companies. Responding to these questions should help position producers favorably for the journey ahead.
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