Comments on: Vid-Biz: Wimbledon, Broadcom, CNN http://gigaom.com/video/vid-biz-wimbledon-broadcom-cnn/ Sat, 26 May 2012 05:26:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Mike Daniels http://gigaom.com/video/vid-biz-wimbledon-broadcom-cnn/#comment-472982 Thu, 17 Sep 2009 17:12:22 +0000 http://newteevee.com/?p=26640#comment-472982 Very timely info regarding tennis tickets and the tour. Thanks for the info. Many people have similar situations in their lives.

Hayley

]]> By: Scott http://gigaom.com/video/vid-biz-wimbledon-broadcom-cnn/#comment-472981 Tue, 16 Jun 2009 20:03:24 +0000 http://newteevee.com/?p=26640#comment-472981 Jake – OK. I obviously stand corrected. Good info.

]]> By: Jake http://gigaom.com/video/vid-biz-wimbledon-broadcom-cnn/#comment-472980 Tue, 16 Jun 2009 18:21:20 +0000 http://newteevee.com/?p=26640#comment-472980 @Scott, the TV industry makes FAR more money from linear TV, on a per show per viewer basis, than from Hulu etc. It absolutely is not the same model that broadcast TV has used. Online video advertising is largely unproven, while it’s been clear for a long time that linear TV advertising is extremely effective (though probably less so than in the past).

Further, there are far more ads in an hour long TV show (16 minutes, give or take, or a total of 32 thirty second spots) compared to five or six 15 or 30 second spots on Hulu etc.

Most importantly of all, people don’t watch anywhere near as much online TV as they watch linear TV – it’s not even close. The average American TV viewer watches about 4.5 hours of linear TV per day!!

Wall Street is telling the networks that there is very clearly no money in ad-supported online media right now, and that:

1) if the networks want to make money on the web they should make sure that any model they decide to adopt is at least as profitable as their existing businesses and

2) do it in a way that their content doesn’t become a commodity (e.g. newspapers, magazines, recorded music)

]]> By: Scott http://gigaom.com/video/vid-biz-wimbledon-broadcom-cnn/#comment-472979 Mon, 15 Jun 2009 20:29:17 +0000 http://newteevee.com/?p=26640#comment-472979 The Hulu content is not on for free. It uses the exact same ad-supported model that broadcast TV has used for 50-60 years. Is Wall Street suggesting that we both watch the ads AND pay an access fee?

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