Broadcasters ‘treading water,’ says Merrill Brown

Cory Bergman May 2nd, 2008

At the Drilling Down on Local conference in Seattle, media consultant and NowPublic chairman Merrill Brown said that old media needs to wake up and innovate or face extinction. Writes tech blogger John Cook: “Brown is especially skeptical about television, saying the business models for the big networks and their affiliates will make it difficult to make the transition.”