Friday, March 19

TV Everywhere

With TV Everywhere, viewers can watch shows for free, but only if they're cable subscribers first. In other words, as long as you tap a subscription code into your device—any device—you can watch anything you want, whenever you want. The service in only a few markets and there are plenty of kinks to be sorted out, such as how the ad model will work, devising a new ratings system with Nielsen and profits. Motivating the change is the pay TV industry's fear that it will find itself in the same untenable position as newspapers.

Read more at Business Week.