Television Disrupted: The Transition from Network to Networked TV, follows the money and the technology that enables it.   The book also looks at the business rules and legal issues that are having a huge impact on the future.  File sharing, copyright laws, geographical form factors, temporal windows and much more.

During the next few years, everything we know about the business of television is going to change - Television Disrupted: The Transition from Network to Networked TV will serve as a guidebook and roadmap for the foreseeable future.

Who Should Read This Book

This is a book for media, entertainment and telecommunications professionals who are being forced (by constant technological change) to think about their businesses in new ways. Among other important topics, it covers:

• TV for telephone execs
• Telephone for cable TV execs
• Internet for TV, cable, satellite and telephone execs
• Mobile devices for everybody

In the following pages you will learn that:

• The sky is not falling.
• There is no “silver bullet” or single solution (and there really never has been).
• New media rarely completely replaces existing media.
• You can position yourself perfectly to take advantage of this exciting time of transition and change.

If you think of your customers as “access lines,” “subs,” “unique users,” or “TV households,” you need to read this book!

Who Should Not Read This Book

Academics and analysts looking for reference material, rigorous Socratic arguments or theoretical pontifications should not read this book. This book is written as a multi-industry overview with a simple thesis: The world is getting more complicated daily and to sort it out, we need to know a little bit about the technologies and organizations that are making it so. In certain cases, we can make educated guesses about the future.