Today’s Digital News November 23, 2010

Blackarrow Consulting on November 23, 2010 — 2 Comments
  • Viacom Cuts Off Google TV, A Rally To Restore Sanity Is Clearly Needed
    Sigh. This is getting a bit much. Turns out there isn’t much to watch on Google TV after all. Google TV is apparently viewed by big media as the devil, as the horned one himself and the only way to counter its/his takeover plans, is to disallow access/worship. And so, just like that, Viacom joined the ranks of News Corp, NBC Universal, Disney, and CBS in their stance of blocking the evil Google TV units access to its online content. This leaves Time Warner and its subsidiary Turner Broadcasting System as the lone media company still playing nicely with Google TV.

Share
Posted in News | Tagged , , ,
  • Lennart Broers

    Will GoogleTV take off as they planned? Or will they figure it out together, the channels and Google? What’s your opinion?

  • http://dtvconsultant.com Ian D. Nock

    Google is under attack because they are Google. The networks in the US are petrified about letting Google access their content, as Google is the biggest platform challenger to them in advertising. They react with emotion and defensively. They are still figuring out their next steps as they try and understand how Hulu can be used – The Lion has begat a son but they are still trying to figure out if they should kill it, or let it grow to kill the new Lion coming into the pack.