TV Isn't Dead Or Dying, And It Doesn't Need To Be Saved

Tue, 06/12/2012 - 11:46 EDT - Seeking Alpha

By Dan Rayburn: It seems a week can't go buy without my RSS feed being full of articles talking to the demise of the TV medium and its business model. This in the face of record profits by operators like Comcast (CMCSA), reports from cable operators of no subscriber losses of any significance and MSO's seeing their average revenue per user (ARPU) growing every few quarters. Yet even in the face of all this data, many in the media seem to have a personal agenda of wanting to get others to agree with them that cable TV is a dying medium and that it will follow the downward spiral of the newspaper business. Their arguments, if you can call them that, are almost always based on the speculation of products that don't even exist yet, think Apple (AAPL) TV, or al la carte pricing, and they try to argue that one medium, likeComplete Story »

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