The Future May Belong to Web and Mobile Video, but TV Will Survive

What’s replacing television is, in fact, television

Television is dead! Long live television!

This, the ancient cry of royal succession, is entirely appropriate to herald what's happening right now—literally before our eyes—to the medium of television. TV has ruled our lives and lifestyles, our news and entertainment, our politics and (through advertising) our economics since network broadcasting began in 1949. And now its sovereignty is over.

Randall Rothenberg Illustration: Alex Fine

"Linear TV has been on an amazing 50-year run, [but] Internet TV is starting to grow," Netflix CEO Reed Hastings said earlier this month, in announcing superb earnings for the streaming TV pioneer.

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