Netflix, the world's largest on-demand video streaming platform, could go through an extremely important change during 2022, and this is because of some major changes that are being made in Russia. There, a new legislation will force Netflix to transmit 20 television channels through its video-on-demand streaming platform, and this is because any platform of this kind with over 100.000 daily active users must do so.
Netflix has never made it clear that it would be willing to broadcast for so many television stations in any country in which it operates, but Russia could start a radical change. Those from Netflix did not comment much about this new obligation in Russia, it will become active from March, but it will have to act in accordance with local laws in order to continue offering its services locally to subscribers.
Netflix: The RADICAL change it could go through in 2022
Netflix will have to transmit state television channels, plus the official one of the Russian Orthodox Church, Spas, but for now it is not known whether subscription prices will increase. Netflix could impose higher prices for subscriptions if it will be forced to pay for the transmissions of television stations, but what happens there could be echoed in other areas of the globe where the American company now offers its services.
Netflix could decide to offer television channels including in other countries where the video-on-demand streaming platform is available, and for many this would be extremely good news. Being able to have access to movies, series, and television channels in such a large platform would be something excellent for many subscribers, but everything also depends on the price that will have to be paid to have access to services of this kind, and it is possible that he is not really that small.
Netflix will announce in advance if it decides to offer access to television channels in other countries where it distributes its films and series, but it is difficult to say when this could happen in other countries.
