Will writers’ strike drive up web video views?
Steve Safran November 9th, 2007
The Washington Post’s Paul Farhi notes that the Hollywood writer’s strike may have an interesting unintended consequence:
Here’s a lovely irony of the Hollywood writers’ strike: In the name of winning a bigger share of revenue from the sale of TV shows over the Internet, TV writers could wind up driving viewers to the Web in search of original online video.
Darn right it will. Further, it’s going to hurt the locals because the lead-ins are going to have lousy ratings. But there is an opportunity for the locals. Take the extra time to create original, local content. People will be out there shopping for new and interesting stuff. Don’t repurpose - have a purpose.
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1. Joe - fourhman.com | November 9th, 2007 at 12:05 pm
Not that I’m against the writers (I’m not), but the networks should look into buying programming from other countries to fill out these upcoming empty schedules. There’s a lot of really great stuff coming out of Japan or Korea or England or Australia or wherever that would be all new to US audiences.
And bonus… a lot of the series are produced to dramatically resolve after X episodes, rather than artificially extended to drag on forever, as with most American prime time shows.
2. thedetroitchannel | November 9th, 2007 at 12:19 pm
“…have a purpose”
while i agree, and i’ll stop short of calling it hypocracy (maybe just irony at its best), lr currently has an author focused on trying to pull the web back to the station brand while you write this?
aloha!
3. thedetroitchannel | November 9th, 2007 at 12:39 pm
btw- tdc predicts a settlement by next weekend.
hope i’m wrong though.
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