The new episode of House returned to Fox TV on Monday night at
For us down-under (according to Nicky at Channel Ten Programming department,) we will have to wait for an as yet unspecified return date - Next year, but probably coincidental with the “ratings period”.
I must admit, I am getting a little tired of being penalized
by Rupert Murdoch for living in
Rupert Murdoch, ex-pat Aussie who now controls who watches what where – even to the extent of the 2 minute preview clips.
http://www.tv.com/house/known-unknowns/episode/1302092/summary.html
With the clip at http://www.tv.com/video/29984/House+-+Known+Unknowns+-+Clip+One?o=tv
House - Known Unknowns - Clip One
House is invited to an 80's party and plans to seduce Cuddy there.
I waited and waited….
Some would call this licensing controls. I would call it, commercial censorship.
Thank God for Youtube.
For those that cant wait till February…. Here is the official episode promo clip.
Meanwhile, around the world frenzied activity ensured that the episode was available on the ED2K and Torrent Networks
In
(N.B.: Some Australian IP numbers are in foreign countries.)
That’s not bad considering the average viewing audience per
episode in
Estimated Global Audience for House S06E07 in the first 24 Hours, 6,159,643.
File sharing is declining globally, mainly because companies are making the content available legally via advertising streaming servers.
However, where content is not available, it would seem that fans are not averse to helping themselves.
House ED2K connections at
If House was available via advertising streaming servers to Australian
viewers, with the current monthly ISP usage caps on bandwidth, the questions
one has to ask, are:
How many would utilize the service?
What would the additional revenues from advertising support
be?
How much would file sharing decline?
On the other hand, if the streaming servers were placed in a
download free zone, sponsored by the Television networks and we asked the same
questions, then the results would no doubt be quite interesting.
We would opine that;
1.
File sharing of House in Australia would stop.
2.
Advertising revenues would skyrocket.
3.
TV advertising sales that are currently in
massive decline would stabilize to the 32% of the population that are not
connected to the Internet.
Change is upon us. Attempts at regulatory intercession have
to date, largely failed.
Possibly what Rupert needs is some of those entrep
Doing revolutionary take-overs that others were too scared
to attempt.
C’mon Rupert, how about some of that good old fashioned
Aussie Can-Do attitude.
If anyone can change the face of media, it’s you. I don’t
understand why you are sticking to a dying, mortally wounded and fundamentally
flawed business model
Channel Ten, you need to consider that two years ago, the
number of people that watched house in
Potential partner? TPG of course.
Bandwidth, IPTV AND technology capabilities.
It strikes me that with the recently announced merger, TPG
are in a position to dominate the competitive aspects of Internet growth in
With their IPTV product, they may also be in a position to
start encroaching on the TV Networks.
M&A tip for the week. Kerry, buy TPG.
References:
(Torrent and ED2K references are sample references only. – 281 indexing sites were utilized for the
compilation of the statistics for this article.)
Torrent
http://www.torrentreactor.to/search.php?o=added&d=d
ED2K
http://www.tvu.org.ru/index.php?show=episodes&sid=27869
House Forum
http://www.tv.com/house/known-unknowns/episode/1302092/summary.html
Channel Ten
http://ten.com.au/house.htm
