Is TV really the killer app for WiMAX?

Om Malik writes:

... MobiTV, well known for its television-to-the-mobile phone service, says it is now going to work with the WiMAX forum, and will participate in a TV-over-WiMAX trial in some Northern California cities. MobiTV will also show off an experimental network built with Navini Networks’ Ripwave gear that can deliver HD television. ...

Link:  GigaOM.

Sam Churchill has more in WiMAX Television?  Link:  DailyWireless. 

Updated 24 Sep. 2006:
Diane Mermigas does her usual penetrating analysis of the Murdoch-Malone deal on DirecTV, which is a significant indicator for the issue above, in Murdoch-Malone deal is glimpse at the future.  Link:  Hollywood Reporter.  --Dennis