What Happens To Network Primetime?
TV, in the words of Bob Iger, is really “marching to a great precipice” this time.
As ACR Grows, Set-Tops Shrink And TV Measurement Gets Even Trickier
Alan Wolk: The number of set-top boxes is shrinking, while the number of smart TVs is growing at a similarly steady rate. This is likely to make measurement harder to calculate in the years to come.
Sinclair’s Streaming RSNs And Warner’s CNN Plus May Be Pay TV’s Biggest Disruptors
Analyst Alan Wolk: While the entertainment offerings on streaming today easily surpass the offerings on cable in terms of both quality and quantity, the same cannot be said for news and sports.
TV At The Tipping Point
Alan Wolk: How is the industry going to handle this new interim period, where traditional pay TV is far from dead, but streaming is rapidly growing an audience?
Apple Is Poised To Regain Momentum With TV
Apple has been under a lot of fire lately, as the company that could once do no wrong suddenly seems incapable of doing anything right. But there is one place where Apple seems to have reverted to doing everything right again. It immediately understood that television was a very different beast than technology, which meant they needed to hire people who actually understood the medium.
