TELECOM Digest OnLine - Sorted: CBS, Fox Show Different Approaches to Tech

CBS, Fox Show Different Approaches to Tech

Monty Solomon (monty@roscom.com)
Sun, 22 Jan 2006 23:26:12 -0500

By David Bauder, AP Television Writer

PASADENA, Calif. --In the fast-moving world of technology, Fox is the
tortoise and CBS is the hare.

CBS has spent the past few months making deals to distribute the
network's fare in every conceivable way -- on the Internet, through
on-demand services, on iPods, on cell phones. Fox has been content to
mostly watch this frenzied activity from the sidelines.

Considering their images as TV networks, it's a fascinating reversal
of type. In this tech race, CBS, with the oldest average audience, is
the teenager careening wildly from experience to experience. Fox, home
of "The Simpsons," is the conservative elder taking it all in.

CBS doesn't want to be caught on the sidelines -- like the music
industry once was -- if a new form of content distribution catches
fire with the public.

http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2006/01/22/cbs_fox_show_different_approaches_to_tech/

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