By etan vlessing
OTTAWA – As talk of Canadian broadcasters battling Netflix and needing online scale dominated last week’s Prime Time conference, spare a thought for kids TV producers also struggling to reach audiences on tablets, smartphones and TV Everywhere.It turns out a combination of streaming VOD services buying up high end kids fare to entice new subscribers and reduce churn, and the global explosion of YouTube and user-generated content is putting the squeeze on kids content creators."The trend is the middle is going away. You're either producing something very high cost, industrial, or entering the space by doing something low cost for... Prime Time: How Netflix and YouTube could spell the death of mid-budget kids programming
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