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The Daily Show and the Colbert Report somehow manage to get all my friends to watch every single night, commercials and all. That's because they type www.theda
by vectorpush 15y ago
The Daily Show and the Colbert Report somehow manage to get all my friends to watch every single night, commercials and all.
That's because they type www.thedailyshow.com and then they can instantly watch the entire week of episodes for free, with Comedy-Central's advertising revenue still intact. The way forward seems pretty clear to me.
- nobody31 15y agoExcept at some point enough people will watch on comedy central's site that cable companies will stop carrying comedy central - and stop paying them. At that point the site has to make enough from advertising to cover all the channel's costs.
- zdw 15y agoThat works for timely shows totally owned by the network that broadcasts them. It falls down when there is more than one party involved - for example, shows that are destined for syndication or DVD sales. One example of this is the SyFy channel - they've basically cancelled or let expire all the programs that were being produced by 3rd parties (Universal's "Stargate" franchise, for example) as they paid top dollar for first showing rights, but the 3rd party made all the rebroadcast, serialization, etc. profits. See also how Netflix is starting to produce their own shows they can totally own and sell direct to customers. The future has no middlemen, just people making unique products (art, video, web apps, software, etc.) or money of of standardized interchangeable services (distribution, hosting, connectivity, etc.).
- astrodust 15y agoExcept Canada...