Comments on: John Malone Wants to See the Money http://staging.blog.biakelsey.com/index.php/2009/06/02/john-malone-wants-to-see-the-money/ LOCAL MEDIA WATCH. The Nexus of All Things Local Mon, 01 Jun 2015 22:23:47 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.39 By: Brian Hayashi http://staging.blog.biakelsey.com/index.php/2009/06/02/john-malone-wants-to-see-the-money/comment-page-1/#comment-361883 Sun, 14 Jun 2009 04:00:54 +0000 http://blog.kelseygroup.com/index.php/2009/06/02/john-malone-wants-to-see-the-money/#comment-361883 As recently as fifteen years ago, many consumers equated “MTV” or “HBO” with “cable TV”: if you wanted to watch Mike Tyson fight, you had to have cable. If you owned a hotel, adding a HBO commercial account was like minting money.

Reading between the lines of recent interviews with Twitter executives, especially the “Twitter as utility” comment, it appears that their goal is to become the aggregator that sits next to the “tsunami of content” and then turns it into paid-content feeds to consumers.

It wouldn’t surprise me – as a recent HBR report suggests, heavy Twitter users are much like the classic cable TV channel surfers of yore.

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