Premium online services continue to raise
production budgets, but they also see the need for traditional TV-movie content.
For 2017, Netflix is projected to spend $5.8 billion on TV production -- an amount that rivals traditional
TV-movie companies' spending. according to MoffettNathanson Research. Other streaming services are following suit.
For example, Time Warner is estimated to spend $5 billion on TV production
this year, followed by Walt Disney at $5.7 billion and Fox with $5.5 billion. NBCUniversal leads all companies with $8.6 billion.
Other premium streaming companies are also raising their
production budgets: Amazon is poised to spend $4.5 billion and Hulu will shell out $2.5 million. Newcomer Apple intended to spend $1 billion this year.
In terms of acquired programming, Time
Warner and 21st Century Fox have been the greatest contributors to services such as Netflix, Amazon and Hulu -- gaining a 16% and 15% market share, respectively.
CBS has a 13% share, while
NBCUniversal is at 9% and Disney-ABC has 7%.
As a result of its increasing TV production budget, Netflix's owned in-house productions is just behind Disney-ABC at 6%. Sony Pictures
Entertainment has a 5% share, followed by The CW at 4% and Viacom with 3%.
At the prime-time Emmy awards on Sunday night, Hulu became the first streaming service to win an Emmy for a TV
series, for “The Handmaid’s Tale.”
In June, Netflix streamed 187 TV shows, with 21 Netflix originals and 166 acquired programs. The previous year,in the same month, Netflix
had 15 originals and 193 acquired programs.
In 2016, premium online services had 93 originals TV shows on their platforms -- up from 46 in 2015, and 32 in 2014.