Once you can buy CNN and TNT from Time Warner, it won’t be long before you can buy MTV and Comedy Central from That last line has the potential to affect a lot more people than the handful of cable naysayers. Bewkes said he anticipates there will be a web-only option for those who don’t have pay-TV service. One paragraph in the article jumped out at me, however.įor 85 percent of American households, the added access would be, essentially, free.
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Most cable-only networks, like CNN and ESPN, do not offer their programmingįree on the Web because most of their income comes out of the subscription fees charged by pay TV companies. The idea, which I wrote about last month, is that if you pay to have access to programming by way of aĬable or satellite service, you will also be able to watch the same programs on a computer connected to the Internet or maybe on a cellphone. Of the article positions Time Warner, a major programming supplier, in agreement with Comcast and the newly independent Time Warner Cable, over plans to let people watch cable networks on the Internet.
Bewkes in Advertising Age Monday talking about a concept the company calls TV Everywhere. That’s what I read in the interview with Mr. Just as soon as Time Warner has divested itself from the cable business, Jeff Bewkes, its chief executive, is preparing to stab the cable industry in the back.
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