Category Archives: Future of Television 2009
Fox’s Kevin Reilly on the Future of TV
Kevin Reilly – President of Entertainment, Fox Broadcasting Interviewed by David Wertheimer, Executive Director, The Entertainment Technology Center @ USC
How is the business different today?
When Kevin started at NBC in 1988, he started to see articles being written about how network TV was a dinosaur. The articles we see today are similar. The death of TV is greatly exaggerated. Back then you could see that cable would grow and network TV would lose share to cable.
There was no discussion of how the business model would change back then. TV was the greatest advertising mechanism every invented. While the media mix will change, there is so much information coming out now that people actually miss ads when they get pulled out of shows. People want to know about products and ads play a useful role.
People will declare TV dead. While there is no turning back the clock, there will be TV networks in the future.
What are the fundamentals that will always apply?
Gemini Division’s Producer Stan Rogow on the Future of TV
Stan Rogow, Executive Producer/Director, Gemini Division and CEO of Electric Farm Entertainment.
Why is a successful producer even dealing with the Internet?
Stan says he has a son who was just not watching TV. He says his son asked him about CSI which he saw on YouTube. His son’s generation just doesn’t know about networks.
The Internet is just growing and growing.
What does it take to make a successful show on the internet?
Microsoft’s Blair Westlake on The Future of TV
At the 2009 Future of Hollywood conference, held at the Roosevelt Hotel in Hollywood, California, Blair Westlake, Corporate Vice President of Microsoft’s Media & Entertainment Group was interviewed by Tom Adams, President of Adams Media Research.
Hulu has been a great consumer success. But it’s not clear how it plays out for the traditional distributors like cable and the content producers.
The traditional distributors are saying hold on, we’re paying to distribute this content and you are giving it away for free online.
The content producers are used to the TV load of advertising revenues which is much higher than the ad load at Hulu. We may not be talking about trading analog dollars for digital pennies, but it may be analog dollars for digital dimes.
Is There a Future For TV?
In the first session at the Future of Television Conference, held at the Roosevelt Hotel in Hollywood, California, was full of stats and data from analysts at SmithGeiger, Parks Associates and Magid Associates.
The bottom line – the internet has caught up with TV for entertainment use. TV viewing is down by about 2 hours from last year, with most of the increase being in watching online video.