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While reading an article on The Record website, about the state of TV and 'the networks', referred to as "the industry" (cough). Writer Joel Rubinoff puts things in perspective:
Well... Its been 60 years since the 3 networks (ABC, CBS and NBC) went On The Air with regular broadcasts, in 1947. Just the other day I heard a network reporter say -- in 2007 viewers watched 100 billion videos online. An image comes to mind of a dinosaur looking up at a meteor streaking towards the planet, and comments, casually... while munching, to two other dinosaurs -- in a we might have to manage this situation tone... "that thing is "Out of control". A tiny mouse... from behind a rock, thinks to itself... "actually honcho its beyond your control".
Happy New Year! 2008 is gonna be GREAT!!
"It's the cusp of a revolution, and the battle lines are being drawn. TV versus Internet, networks versus writers, and viewers caught in the middle, unsure where to turn next.
"It used to be families would gather around with a tray table and a TV dinner," NBC research honcho Alan Wurtzel told me during the fall TV press tour in Los Angeles. "Now it's so common for everybody to gather around with a laptop and watch TV -- and I'm not talking about Gen Y, 18-to-20-year-old hip, cutting-edge people. I'm taking about the mainstream.''
It's called video streaming, and along with the rise in digital video recording devices (DVR) like TiVo, the TV universe is morphing into something that may soon look radically different than it did even 10 years ago. ... now, he says, it's out of control, with the industry caught in a digital earthquake that has Hollywood writers picketing for a share of profits, venerable institutions like TV Guide ceasing print publication and viewers faced with a barrage of reruns until the entire mess gets sorted out by an industry -- like the dim-witted brontosaurus before it -- unaware its very existence may be in danger."
"It used to be families would gather around with a tray table and a TV dinner," NBC research honcho Alan Wurtzel told me during the fall TV press tour in Los Angeles. "Now it's so common for everybody to gather around with a laptop and watch TV -- and I'm not talking about Gen Y, 18-to-20-year-old hip, cutting-edge people. I'm taking about the mainstream.''
It's called video streaming, and along with the rise in digital video recording devices (DVR) like TiVo, the TV universe is morphing into something that may soon look radically different than it did even 10 years ago. ... now, he says, it's out of control, with the industry caught in a digital earthquake that has Hollywood writers picketing for a share of profits, venerable institutions like TV Guide ceasing print publication and viewers faced with a barrage of reruns until the entire mess gets sorted out by an industry -- like the dim-witted brontosaurus before it -- unaware its very existence may be in danger."
Well... Its been 60 years since the 3 networks (ABC, CBS and NBC) went On The Air with regular broadcasts, in 1947. Just the other day I heard a network reporter say -- in 2007 viewers watched 100 billion videos online. An image comes to mind of a dinosaur looking up at a meteor streaking towards the planet, and comments, casually... while munching, to two other dinosaurs -- in a we might have to manage this situation tone... "that thing is "Out of control". A tiny mouse... from behind a rock, thinks to itself... "actually honcho its beyond your control".
Happy New Year! 2008 is gonna be GREAT!!
