Jason Dunn
04-01-2005, 10:00 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20050331.html' target='_blank'>http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20050331.html</a><br /><br /></div><i>"I just realized that what I've been writing about the last couple of weeks is really the future of television. And given where I work -- a national broadcast television network -- this is both an important and a sensitive subject. After all, we've been pretty much doing exactly the same thing here at PBS since 1969. Only now, the pressures of technology and economy are threatening to squeeze our Mister Rogers-based reality into something very different. Fortunately, I think it can be something of which my friend Fred Rogers would have been proud. Our building blocks for the future of television are intellectual property, technology, network access and money. Too often in columns like this, we look at one part or maybe two, but unless you think about all four parts at the same time, it won't work."</i><br /><br />Well, it seems that everything is moving to an IP-based distribution model, and Cringely makes an interesting case yet again. Worth the read!