“…User reaction to the move was swift and predictable. “Well, off to the torrent sites,” one wrote on Hulu’s It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia forum”
“This is a tectonic shift, and what it does is allow network heads to find the audience they always should have had but couldn’t reach.” -Kilar, a longtime Amazon exec
” if you don’t cannibalize yourself, somebody else will do it for you”
“Television execs who doubt him might want to check with their friends in the newspaper industry.”
Transitioning online opens up great opportunities for networks but it also runs the risk of cannibalizing their existing business. Right now I think [television networks] want to tread the online waters carefully, to experiment online while it’s still a small business, and to innovate there, but not risk rocking the boat too hard at risk of tipping it over. That’s the conflict they have.
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| — | Avner Ronen, Boxee founder quoted in Monday’s New York Times |
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This is one of the best sitcom intro songs ever. The full intro song to Cheers just makes me smile.
Louis C.K. makes hilarious observations on how we take the amazing technologies we have at our finger tips for granted.
I know this is a pretty old episode of Late Night with Conan O’Brien, but I couldn’t resist.
I know this is a pretty old episode of Late Night with Conan O’Brien, but I couldn’t resist.
