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...wares in the annual TV-industry ritual known as development season, new technologies are changing the way they do business. With high-quality video available on 200 million PCs via broadband, 200 million 3-GB mobile phones, an estimated 4 million iPods and other devices, the Big Four networks (ABC, NBC, CBS and Fox) are scrambling for ways to deliver content over a panoply of platforms. They are also scrambling to figure out a business model that can predictably deliver profits in this variegated market...
...called end-time began last October, after ABC agreed to put Lost and Desperate Housewives on Apple's iTunes store as $1.99 downloads, giving viewers their first taste of (legal) Internet access to hit shows. "Every new-technology company had been courting us," recalls Disney-ABC TV president Anne Sweeney. "It's one thing to discuss possibilities, but when we saw the video iPod and iTunes store, the consumer experience was so vibrant, it convinced us that this was the right technology." Within a month, CBS and NBC made plans to offer some of their top shows as 99¢ video...
...business plan and more like a crushing stampede, with almost daily pronouncements and a flurry of press releases. CBS boasts it broke new ground by selling Survivor on its website; NBC Sports trumpets that it will make $6 million from its online Olympics coverage (take that, Simon Cowell!); Disney-ABC says it will stream many of its series for free; Fox boss Rupert Murdoch remarks that his Internet services will generate $350 million in revenues this year...
...ABC announced their show Commander in Chief is going on a six-week vacation or--as Bush calls it--August." --JAY LENO...
...mess with the nunsThe press pool was in the charge of a nun, attired in blue, who could not conceive of ABC's Ann Compton taking a laptop into the palace. The reporters had been told to bring their stuff with them because they would be running to catch the motorcade as Mrs. Bush departed. "Leave it to a colleague outside," the nun said insistently. "You don't need a computer." Finally, the nun did away with diplomacy and said, "There is no way." An Associated Press reporter from Rome asked about a tape recorder. "Absolutely no recorder...