Broadcast fine with the tube, not so thrilled with you
According to this Reuters story, ’showbiz’ (whatever/whoever that means) isn’t sure if YouTube - the site that gets them bigger audiences for their shows than they can hope for through the teevee - is a good or bad thing.
‘Showbiz,’ of course, has the IQ of a pat of Land o’ Lakes.
I really think that it’s time we stop referring to NBC, ABC, CBS, et al as ‘networks’. The fact that they each constitute one-way channels is what makes them no match for the true network: the internet. Broadcast channels is much more appropriate, since all they do is try to shove as many highly-priced advertising spots (with some ‘content’ - sometimes good, usually not - between them) down the throats of as many people as possible. If people running these companies don’t realize that the network that nobody owns - the internet - is something they don’t have a choice about adapting to, then let ‘em find out the hard way.
Speaking of those ad spots: Nielsen already got their keisters sued because their TV ratings methodology, which decides the ad rates, is flawed.
(And another reason why the web rules? If not for its plentiful resources, I would not have been able to spellcheck the word ‘keister’.)
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