Broadcast TV's Demise - More Fiction Than Fact

Dan Ryburn for Seeking Alpha explains why he's not following the popular thinking today, that TV is all but dead. In his opinion TV is anything but obsolete.

Online video is having a huge impact on the way content is created, marketed and consumed, but distributing video online is not replacing traditional broadcast programming. I know some are under the impression that one day your computer will become your TV, but that's not going to happen and we all know the Internet can't even support those kind of numbers when it comes to viewers all watching a show at the same time.

For all the talk of the writers strike and some of the data that has been put out saying that more people have gone online for videos, that does not change the fact that most of the content on TV is not available on the Internet.

... The TV is not going anywhere and way too often in our society people want to talk about one thing replacing another, instead of being a compliment to it. The TV did not replace the radio. Internet video is not going to replace the TV. P2P delivery is not going to replace all CDN delivery. These things are all compliments to one another. We should see the TV for what it is, just another way to get different kinds of content for various viewing experiences.

emily | 9:49 PM | The threat to big Media |
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