The zero-sum schedule of TV time

November 29, 2006 by Jeff Jarvis

Stowe Boyd looks at the great McLuhanesque Mandala of one medium turning into the next as the BBC reports that internet video viewing has grown large enough to start cutting into old TV viewing. Says the Beeb: “Some 43% of Britons who watch video from the internet or on a mobile device at least once a week said they watched less normal TV as a result.”

  • http://www.mythusmageopines.com/wp Alan Kellogg

    Wait ’til Apple Computer starts producing wide screen high resolution dispalys with a MacMini incorporated. Complete with software to access video on the Internet. Broadcast video is going to scream bloody murder. :)

  • http://www.cabdrollery.blogspot.com Ruth

    It’s as good as CSpan, getting to see what’s actually happening and skipping commercials. Those of us on dialup may be the only tv audience left for awhile – until we get wireless.

  • http://deleted Mike G

    So is everyone who has a computer in England going to have to pay a licence fee?

  • http://jonnygoldstein.com Jonny Goldstein

    That’s why networks need to worry more about making stuff, be it for TV, the web, or wherever, and less about their TV ratings.

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