Quick observations on TV distribution...

Tom Coates writes:  "... I think we're approaching a world in which a near-live media distribution environment will be a major partner to broadcast TV within five-ten years. This environment will be focused on show-by-show subscriptions and ultimate personalisation to get stuff down to viewers over normal broadband and mediated by the bog-standard boring old internet - probably even through the web. And it's my suspicion that there may only be enough room for five or six major (partially democratised) distribution hubs (at a complete guess as mentioned in the above post: Amazon, AOL, Apple, Yahoo, Microsoft and Google). The group that's going to have the most trouble with this is the public sector broadcasters - they need to be trying to work out how to influence and work with that environment and find a space for free or publically supported content as soon as is bloody possible, rather than trying to develop their own necessarily prescribed and undersupported media distribution platforms. ..."  Link:  plasticbag.org.

Update 4/10/2006:  Coates expands on this in a new post, A brief follow-up on TV distribution... Link:  plasticbag.org.  --Dennis

Comments

[Todd Mundt]

Wow, that's a call-to-action for public media!