ESPN has become quite powerful in the past decade.  They constantly are buying into new sports properties, like the NBA and English Premiership football.  Over the next few years, the Bowl Championship Series will be moving from its current broadcast networks of Fox and ABC, to the friendly cable confines of ESPN. ESPN may actually be doomed in the next few years. Why?  The reason why they have [...]

Why does Time Warner and Comcast, the two largest pay-TV providers in the US feel compelled to attempt such a service?  The internet has broken multiple status quos of the entertainment industry.  It started in the late 90s, with the digitization of music, and the illegal distribution of it through Napster, and other Peer to Peer networks.  As connection speeds grew faster and bandwidth got cheaper, [...]

Time Warner and Comcast are starting a new streaming media initiative called TV Everywhere.  This service will provide full length episodes of TV series online.   With a catch. Sound familiar?  Internet users already have a number of options to watch TV shows online, usually in full screen quality and even High Definition, depending on the series/network/distributor.  In 2007, NBC Universal and [...]