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Jeff Zucker

He said “there are vested interests in perpetuating those inefficiencies,” such rethinks are required since “content used to be king but now consumers wear the crown.” Failing to change TV’s “wounded business model” would “destroy the business

once and for all,” he warned.

While I attended the NATPE 08 in Vegas

I took a few pictures and notes during

the five days with TV's top executives

and program developers...surf some

and see what is going on in TV and how

they are trying to position themselves so

as to not have the same fate as the music biz

Had great visit on the HDMC-1, a High Definition Mobile Coach.

We hope to work with this mobile production center in the near

future, and let us know and we can help you get in touch with them,

check out ... THE JOHNNIE HIGH COUNTRY MUSIC REVUE

of Arlington, Texas and the beautiful Ashley Smith on our

COUNTRY STAGE

"In addition to the selling, buying, pitching and schmoozing that defines the NATPE ritual, prominent speakers lined up for the 45th edition of the gathering include NBC U prexy and CEO Jeff Zucker, on Tuesday; Shelly Lazarus, chairman and CEO of ad behemoth Ogilvy and Mather Worldwide, on Wednesday; and FremantleMedia North America CEO Cecile Frot-Coutaz on Thursday.

Also skedded for this evening is NATPE's fifth annual Brandon Tartikoff Legacy Awards. This year's honorees are former NBC U chief Bob Wright, CBS Paramount Television Entertainment Group prexy Nancy Tellem, Warner Bros. TV prez Peter Roth, and Mark Itkin, the William

Morris Agency's syndie biz stalwart and co-head of worldwide TV." Variety Magazine

After CES I learned about the "next now future" of projectors...funny you did not hear this addressed at all among the TV guys...the VoD threat, combined with the 3rd screen and the Internet just sharpens the double edge sword that is upon the television industry. Somewhere NATPE needs to embrace and evolve to CES...or CES is going to eat their Hollywood lunch.

CHECK OUT CONSUMER ELECTRONIC SHOW

The exhibit floor was fun, with the big boys...CBS, FOX, NBC,

etc. and independent shows that would take a booth to show

their programs or special show...distributors and producers

would make their way from booth to booth shopping for new programming...while at the sessions you become aware that

a huge change is in the wind, that many in the biz itself do not

see or have any idea to the paradigm shift that is upon them...

"The air has gone out of the balloon...gone were the elaborate structures of old...Sony met with clients off-site and with out paying registration fees...CBS TV did not get exhibit space..."

HOLLYWOOD REPORTER ON NATPE