PaidContent.org has a story item about New York's YES Network creating a broadband delivery model. I have for many years been saying that the telcos are the next cable tv network and if they want to deliver true content over DSL, that sports and movies will lead the way.
Imagine VoIP and Sports, plus Sports Talk Radio, all over the same connected pipe. My late father, who used to read the paper, have a radio on with sports talk, the TV on watching a game all at the same time, and only didn't call the talk show hosts, but wanted to, because I was in the sports team PR world, would be in well, heaven if this came to be. He used to ask me when I was online back in the 80s, if I ever saw that day coming. I did then, and continue to this day.
In his own way, my dad was a multitasker before the word was in vogue. I too did that. Newspapers, magazines, CB radio, phone, tv, pc, stereo, all in my home office, heck we called it a den. Today we have Skype and other softphones and similar ways of connecting by voice. I receive my music using Winamp's Shoutcast, Musicmatch, Rhapsody, Windows Media, Real Player. I read on the screen of laptops and desktops. And now, my TV comes via the Windows Media Center where I watch and record programs. Soon sports will be there, but not as cable, as IPTV, that comes wirelessly, via DSL or cable modem.
I can't wait.
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