[ NNSquad ] Re: Dish exec says Hulu is killing TV industry

[Lauren Weinstein <lauren@vortex.com>]

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Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2010 15:59:24 -0400
From: Dave Farber <dave@farber.net>
Subject: [IP] Dish exec says Hulu is killing TV industry
Reply-To: dave@farber.net
To: ip <ip@listbox.com>
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> From: Bob Frankston <bob2@bobf.frankston.com>
> Date: November 4, 2010 10:27:35 AM EDT
> To: dave@farber.net, 'ip' <ip@listbox.com>
> Cc: dewayne-net@warpspeed.com, nnsquad@nnsquad.org
> Subject: RE: [IP] Dish exec says Hulu is killing TV industry
> 

> Translation. You need everyone to sell through a broker rather than selling
> direct. The question is what is the TV industry. In this case TV is the
> distribution industry and content brokering. Freely available is not the
> same as free -- Hulu does have commercials and subscriptions.
> 
> It's useful to understand that "TV Anywhere" is a way to associate content,
> such as HBO, with your "cable" subscription even when going over IP.
> 
> To put this into more neutral terms there is a concern that TV distribution
> is like newspapers and that going a la carte, in effect, we won't fund the
> whole. Some of the content is funded out of the package (basic cable) rather
> than the whole -- ESPN, History and others. Will they be viable on their
> own? It's not clear? And it may mean, for example, more science-looking
> entertainment than science. More specifically more ghost stories less
> history stories.
> 
> The problem is that the existing satellites no longer add value once people
> have content via IP. The same is true for cables though others' can use them
> as IP infrastructure. What happens when companies that have taken on debt to
> pay for satellites, coax and fiber find themselves competing with content
> brokers who don't have such burdens?
> 
> Comcast's answer is to purchase NBCU. Time Warner's is to cast off TWC. What
> about the others??
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Farber [mailto:dave@farber.net] 
> Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2010 04:48
> To: ip
> Subject: [IP] Dish exec says Hulu is killing TV industry
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> From: Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne@warpspeed.com>
> Date: November 3, 2010 10:11:27 PM EDT
> To: Multiple recipients of Dewayne-Net <dewayne-net@warpspeed.com>
> Subject: [Dewayne-Net] Dish exec says Hulu is killing TV industry
> Reply-To: dewayne-net@warpspeed.com
> 
> Dish exec says Hulu is killing TV industry By Brandon Boyce
> <http://topicfire.com/share/Dish-exec-says-Hulu-is-killing-TV-industry-15964
> 624.html>
> 
> According to Dish Network's VP of Online Content Development and Strategy
> Bruce Eisen, Hulu and sites like it, are hurting the TV industry. He feels
> that you should pay for your TV service rather than get the content online
> for free.
> 
> Eisen spoke as part of a panel about cord cutting at the Streaming Media
> West conference and said:
> 
> If I can watch Glee tomorrow morning and I don't have to pay a pay TV
> service -- I think that's bad. The model of sites like Hulu that make
> catchup content available immediately isn't benefiting the industry.
> Broadcasters should instead reserve catchup episodes for authenticated TV
> Everywhere services, and only make them available freely after 30 days. If
> people decide that they don't have to pay for pay TV, then one of the
> pillars (of the TV industry) starts crumbling.
> 
> [snip]
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