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"Can Barry Diller Upend the TV Industry Again?"

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"Can Barry Diller Upend the TV Industry Again?"

Op-Ed, Bloomberg

June 5, 2012

Author: Susan P. Crawford, Former Faculty Affiliate, Information and Communications Technology and Public Policy Project, January–December 2012

Belfer Center Programs or Projects: Information and Communications Technology and Public Policy; Science, Technology, and Public Policy

 

Barry Diller is taking on the broadcasting industry — again. This time his threat comes not from within, in the form of a fourth network, but from the outside, in the form of a dime-sized antenna.

Television broadcasters are fighting a court battle with Aereo, a service launched this year in New York. Aereo has set up thousands of tiny antennas in Brooklyn that receive over-the-air television signals and send them into short-term digital storage at users' request. Residents of Manhattan can receive on any device their personal antenna's digital signal — translated into an almost-real-time online river of ones and zeros....

Continue reading: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-06-05/can-barry-diller-upend-the-tv-industry-again-.html

 

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http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-06-05/can-barry-diller-upend-the-tv-industry-
again-.html

For Academic Citation:

Crawford, Susan P. "Can Barry Diller Upend the TV Industry Again?." Bloomberg, June 5, 2012.

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