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The beginning of the end?

8/24/2013

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I found this Bloomberg news story fascinating.  It seems Disney could make its popular ESPN channels available on web-based TV. As the story notes, Google and Sony are among those interested in breaking the long-held cable and satellite TV hold on over-the-air programming, by making content available online.

The big players have, so far, said they would only make their programming available through their cable and satellite partners, which of course protects  lucrative revenue streams. The the times, they are a changin.' First, there was the news that Google is talking to the NFL about the rights to the most popular sports package in the nation, the NFL Sundat ticket. Now comes the ESPN news.

If either one of those comes to pass, it will make the Aereo squabbles looks like a non-event. It appears the birth of web-based TV is upon us, and that's got to make the established ca
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