More TV Follows the Web
Posted on October 6, 2006
Filed Under Commercial Trends, What's New |
News Corp.’s U.K. satellite broadcaster BSkyB is joining with Al Gore to unveil a British version of his Current TV, a channel showing user-generated videos. BSkyB chief James Murdoch says Current TV brings “the Web’s sense of empowerment to television.”
Thanks to Patrick at I Want Media for that.
No sooner had I blogged on TVs tendency to follow rather than innovate than I came across SKY doing a Current TV.
Ultimately I doubt these deals mean a whole lot - Murdoch buying a blogging platform will mean more. The BBC partnering with Microsoft too is a significant sign of desperation though and the post below shows that Merger and Acquisition in the online area is booming. People are rushing to do deals, to sidle up, hedge bets, pay billions for YouTube.
It’s the kind of stuff that makes bloggers feel small and insigificant.
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