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The End of Broadcast

2000· article· en· W249360234 on OpenAlex

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aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
No Canadian affiliation. An affiliation-only frame, the usual design, would never have seen this work. It is one of the works that make the case for inverting the frame.

Bibliographic record

VenueThe McKinsey Quarterly · 2000
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicMultimedia Communication and Technology
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsThe InternetAdvertisingGuard (computer science)InteractivityWorld Wide WebDigital Millennium Copyright ActBroadcasting (networking)Computer scienceInternet privacyMultimediaBusinessComputer securityIntellectual property
DOInot available

Abstract

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Media-streaming technology is bringing high-quality video to the Internet. Get ready for change. In the early days of the World Wide Web--just a few years ago-- companies dreamed of sending content to millions of computer screens around the planet. PointCast and the similar start-ups that pioneered this idea applied technology--they pushed content onto the user's screen rather than waiting for the user to pull it from the server. But this technology failed to deliver what those users really wanted: digital-quality video and audio, on demand, over the Internet. Although the push business model may be dead, the goal of delivering high-quality video over the Internet lives on in the form of streaming, a hybrid that combines traditional broadcasting with the Net's on-demand environment (see sidebar state of the art, on the next page). Companies that deploy the streaming technology are using it to leapfrog old-guard broadcast and cable companies, which have been reluctant to bring interactivity to TV. In so doing, the attackers are stealing the broadcasters' dearest treasure: the audience. What, me worry? A sure indicator that a company feels threatened is the filing of a lawsuit. That is what CBS, Disney, Fox, the National Basketball Association, the National Football League, and others did in January 2000, when they joined in a suit against iCraveTV, a Canadian video-streaming company that takes the signals of US and Canadian broadcasters and streams them free of charge from its Web site, hosted in Canada. Similarly, Australian regulators, at the behest of the major free-to-air broadcasters, prohibited the streaming of video clips longer than ten minutes and have strictly limited the type of content that may be streamed. The defensive stance of the broadcast industry and the holders of content rights is easy to understand, since the media-streaming market is projected to grow from under $1 billion in 2000 to nearly $10 billion by 2005. Compare this with current revenues of around $40 billion for broadcast television and $37 billion for cable television. Streaming video is getting consumer attention as well. By the end of 1999, upward of 98 million users had downloaded the RealNetworks streaming player. In fact, more than twice as many people downloaded it in the first nine months of 1999 than in all of 1997 and 1998. Each of the top ten Webcasts of 1999 attracted more than 500,000 viewers. The year's top event, Paul McCartney's concert at the Cavern Club, in the English city of Liverpool, was streamed to more than five million viewers (Exhibit 1)--equivalent to the audience of the world's 90th-grossing movie in 1999. If the audience had been measured by Nielsen Media Research, the concert would have had a rating similar to that of a US TV show with a ranking between 50th and 100th in a typical ratings week. A scorecard for the players This uptick in market size has more than a few companies jockeying to become the dominant streaming service provider. Only 4 of these streamers had entered the market by the end of 1996; 8 entered in 1997, 12 in 1998, and more than 75 in 1999. Many, including iBeam Broadcasting, InterVu, and Microcast, are new companies dedicated to streaming. Others, such as e-Media and Webcasts.com, began their lives designing Web sites or applications and then moved into streaming. And a host of companies are targeting more traditional services to support streaming providers. Crawford Communications, for example, offers satellite uplink services to producers of Webcasts; Loudeye.com provides encoding services to the streaming industry; and Digex and Exodus Communications offer their hosting services to streaming companies. Finally, companies in completely unrelated industries--most notably Enron--are redeploying their assets to become media streamers. By far the most sought-after role is that of end-to-end service provider. …

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.975
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.017
GPT teacher head0.300
Teacher spread0.283 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it