Dawn Airey, managing director of Sky Networks, warns that television scheduling will become a dying art as viewers begin to create their own schedule using personal video recorders and broadband television services. ¶ “My worry is that I still don’t think the traditional broadcasting establishment fully understands the scale of the transformation that is taking place. And until they do, commercial terrestrial television as a whole may very well be sleep-walking its way to long-term oblivion,” she said in a Royal Television Society speech. ¶ It follows comments from Ofcom chairman Lord Currie at another RTS event warning that “The current order is changing - quickly - and bringing with it an unprecedented challenge for traditional linear television broadcasting” with an impending collision between broadcast and broadband delivery. ... informitv link
I've drafted an article on this general topic for the public broadcasting newspaper, Current. Watch for it in an upcoming issue. --Dennis
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