After Destroying Newspapers, The Internet Is Now Poised To Disrupt Television

[Purveyor]

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]

1. I'm ready for television to be disrupted. It stinks.

[leftstreet]

3. +1

[gopiscrap]

2. so much for the 4th estate and any accountability

[2naSalit]

4. It makes it so much easier

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]

5. lol, the internet is a mofo. lol, people are next. n/t.

[Nuclear Unicorn]

6. Sounding like a broken record

Oh, wait. They hardly make those anymore.