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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAfter Destroying Newspapers, The Internet Is Now Poised To Disrupt Television
By Agence France-Presse
Wednesday, August 14, 2013 10:57 EDT
Having turned print media upside down, the Internet now is disrupting television, forcing broadcasters to adapt to tablets and video-on-demand to hold onto views and advertisers.
The gap between what consumers want and the way the industry is delivering it has grown so big that the industry now has to start to make some moves, Forrester Research analyst Jim Nail told AFP.
Viacom, Time Warner, Disney, 21st Century Fox, CBS the second quarter results of the big US media groups confirmed that cable networks remain their cash cows.
For the first time this year, however, American adults are spending more time with the Internet than in front of television sets about five hours a day compared to 4.5, according to a study in eMarketer this month.
The independent market research firm notes that users sometimes use the Internet and watch television at the same time and that video represents only part of online consumption.
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Auggie
(31,163 posts)gopiscrap
(23,756 posts)2naSalit
(86,536 posts)to track who's watching what or reading what...
Our communicators tell everything the minders want to know whether you are using a smartfone or your laptop now...
And the coropratekontrol then has a bead on everyone, including school kids who are online. So how do we do something about that?
okieinpain
(9,397 posts)Nuclear Unicorn
(19,497 posts)Oh, wait. They hardly make those anymore.