I’ve written about XM Radio’s The Bridge a few times in the past couple years. Satellite radio has permitted narrow-casting to match the tastes of finely targeted groups.
With personal recording of music and TV coupled with an increasingly wide variety of on-demand streaming sources, I have to wonder about changes coming for broadcasters. It seems to me that scheduled broadcasting is going to be reduced to live action programming (such as sports) at some point in the near future. In a world of fragmented, on-demand delivery, will content producers generate sufficient revenues to cover production costs?
When will we see automotive dashboards with audio systems that “tune” to internet radio stations or streaming video and gaming for passengers.
What are the traffic demand implications for mobile and fixed internet services?
Bell’s mobile TV application was reported to have tripled its audience for the Super Bowl this year. Is this another indicator for the future of program delivery? The evolution of audio and video entertainment to streaming internet is one of the reasons why the CRTC’s NFL mobile decision merits such importance.
Can content owners independently determine the best business models for licensing and distribution? What are the bounds of regulatory oversight of content delivered on new media platforms?