[Tig] a look at the writer's strike

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Thu, 13 Dec 2007, Oskar Lissheim-Boethius wrote:
>>
>> 2) the writers would be well served to investigate deals with new
>> media producers, thereby creating their own new market, shutting out
>> the studios who will be "stuck with 24-hour Reality TV programming"...
>> Google, Yahoo, Mark Cuban were mentioned as possible conduits. There
>> do appear to be interesting alternatives for the writers, outside of
>> the studios.
>
> That would be a dream come true, wouldn't it?

Some of these markets do not represent quality programming.  Mark 
Cuban represents high quality independent programming (via HDNet), but 
Google and Yahoo represent media with forced up-front adds and 
low-grade video.

I suspect that most people here want to be associated with high 
quality programming.

The audio marketplace already has seen a dramatic reduction in the 
demand for quality due to the impact of MP3 and iPOD, and the market 
failure of DVD-Audio and SACD.  Do we really want to see this sort of 
impact to the industry?

Bob
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