[opendtv] Re: News: Time Warner Announces Split From AOL

Time Warner Cable (TWC) was spun out of TWX earlier this year.

On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 3:42 PM, Manfredi, Albert E
<albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Craig Birkmaier wrote:
>
>> History will take note of the cultural wars that took place in
>> TW/AOL after Steve Case bought Time Warner. Rather than becoming
>> the marriage of web and content that Steve imagined, Time Warner
>> led the anit-web backlash among the big media...
>>
>> Now both companies are struggling.
>
> Seems to me that history has been kinder to Time Warner than AOL. AOL
> was one of the early ISPs, and made the best of an era when access via
> the commodity POTS telco link was still viable. So they could gather up
> subscribers nationwide, leveraging off the ubiquitous telco POTS lines.
> But now they have become one of zillions of web portals, as far as I can
> tell.
>
> Time Warner instead has the more scarce resource, the physical
> broadband/cable network, and they are now better capable of providing
> the ISP function, and can also competie directly with those telcos.
>
> So even though they might have been on the "wrong side" of the debate
> about putting more content on the web, for the foreseeable future, I
> think they are the ones that landed on their feet.
>
> Bert
>
>
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