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The TV Industry’s Biggest Question in 2019: What Is TV, Exactly?
Media giants don’t know whether live TV or on-demand content will rule the future of streaming, so they’re just throwing darts.
The good old days.
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What is TV?
I’m serious, how would you define it? The definition of television entertainment is changing, and it now means different things to different people. That’s led the media industry — dominated by companies such as Walt Disney Co., Comcast Corp.’s NBCUniversal and AT&T Inc.’s WarnerMedia — into an existential crisis.