[opendtv] Re: something

People have no preference for one (or more) local television stations as a
source of news?  It seems to me that you go to rhetorical extremes to make
obvious points, badly.

"Content is king."

John Willkie

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nombre de Craig Birkmaier
Enviado el: Wednesday, November 26, 2008 6:41 AM
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Asunto: [opendtv] Re: something

At 1:26 PM -0500 11/25/08, Manfredi, Albert E wrote:
>
>This I don't understand.


Not surprising...

;-)

The problem is that people have no loyalty to channels or networks - 
they only care about the content they want to watch, and rightly so. 
The days when Happy Days could anchor an entire night for ABC are 
long over. Folks do not sit down for an evening of TV viewing and 
watch the same network for several hours anymore. In fact, they do 
not arrange their schedules to watch their favorite shows when they 
are broadcast anymore. You certainly understand this, using time 
shifting devices for many years

>Networks are the source of most of the "good"
>content. I'm not talking about You Tube funny stuff, but real story
>telling.

The problem is that it is terribly expensive to program a channel 
24/7 with GOOD STUFF. The networks are looking at following Fox and 
reducing the number of hours of prime time programming each week. It 
is likely that the networks will move toward more access points for 
their shows to fill out all these hours, as the cable networks have 
been doing for two decades.

>  I think a lot of this hand wringing about where the networks are going
>is overdone. The networks, i.e. the congloms, will go on creating
>content. The distribution media will no doubt change over time. But I
>don't see the trend being more walled gardens. If anything, Internet,
>which is as unwalled as you can be.

Exactly. And once you get past the notion that you need a walled 
garden to succeed in the distribution business, then the role of the 
networks is significantly diminished. This creates the opportunity 
for independent producers to go direct to the consumer.

So there is a silver lining in this cloud!

Regards
Craig
 
 
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