On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 12:31 AM, Joe Hass <[email protected]> wrote: > Sivh Singh had an op-ed in Ad Age a couple days ago on emerging media > trends, and three touched on this group: NBC's ignorance of real-time > feedback loops, HBO's refusal to sell HBOToGo outside the cable world, > and the ability to pin/share/post significantly smaller-sized portions > of content. He thinks a la carte cable is inevitable, but not through > current cable providers. > > http://adage.com/article/digitalnext/digital-trends-worry-media-companies/236677/
My problem with Singh's op-ed is that he mentions these innovative trends without accounting for the characters who have to adopt them. Traditional media companies and advertising companies are stubbornly rejecting making any changes to their model as a reaction to these trends. And the media companies have more influence over the FCC than do digital upstarts and they can limit the power of a regulatory agency to open up the market. So while Singh talks about an evolution of the media business, I see it more as denial of the innovations until a crisis occurs and then they either emulate Verizon, which was a landline phone business which acquired cell phone companies and developed broadband and TV delivery businesses far away from their core model, or they could be like Borders and collapse into irrelevancy and disappear from the face of the earth. I don't see a gentle evolution. -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
