The figures from ratings agency Barb will buoy the BBC at the end of a year in which its role as a mass market broadcaster was questioned.
And back to ESPN, where is its responsibility as a mass market broadcaster to decide what is "sports news?" Perhaps there could be an ESPN-G where kids could sit all day long and parents would not worry that their children were becoming more street-smart than is necessary.
"As the market fragments, the value of being a mass-market broadcaster rises," he says.
Because FLO is aimed at the smartphone market, the broadcasters behind the mobile DTV effort are eager to see their service developed for cellphones, too.
This would surely be the best way of encouraging a competitive open market between broadcasters where the beneficiary would be the armchair fan instead of the one or soon to be two dominant service providers.Stefan Rabinowitz LondonSIR —Your leader on market forces and European soccer misses the point completely.
Following a favorite team or soap opera on a cellphone may take longer to reach Western markets, where broadcasters and wireless operators have been slow to embrace the technology.
The service is competitively priced, compared with competitors like Sling TV, YouTube TV, Sony's Vue, and Hulu Live TV, as its entry-level package begins at $35 per month for over 60 channels, including, in some markets, major broadcasters like NBC, ABC, and Fox.
In the wake of Time Warner Cable dropping the CBS and Showtime signals in most major markets, the broadcaster has decided to block access to full-episode viewing on CBS.com.
A local broadcaster has priority to televise games of the team in their market over national broadcasters.
As the market has warmed, broadcasters have been freeing up the commissioning purse strings.
Regular live broadcasts of the major bullfighting festivals from Madrid, Seville and elsewhere stopped in 2006, after TVE was priced out of the market by private broadcasters.
