They are. Even God took seven days - all right, six - to create earth. Old media, mere mortals after all, need to understand it will take much longer to build any kind of respectable media property, especially with something as embyonic as video content.
HBO shuts down This Just In. File under shocking. Last year WatchMojo.com was in talks with HBO to do something online. It had something to do with our comedy clips, the rest I don’t recall. Anyway, they canned the guy I was talking to, and now they canned this site.
This just reiterates what I’ve been saying: irrelevant of how big or small online video gets, TV companies will have very little to do with it, and if they do, it will be accidental. Please, please, please, prove me wrong, but the short term incentives are not there, and in TV’s mindsets, it’s all about the short term.
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