With These Products, Google Is Beefing Up Its Push Into TV

How the company is helping keep the medium alive

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When you do a Google search for "TV is dead," you get 338 million results. Daniel Alegre, Google's president of global partnerships, says he's "not going to be person 338 million and one."

Alegre used his time as the closing keynote speaker at the NAB Show in Las Vegas to talk about why TV is alive and well and how several Google products are helping make that true.

"With all the doom and gloom of TV dying, a newer version is rising," Alegre said, adding, "TV by the old definition is down, but the new TV is alive and well."

Among a flurry of announcements, including that Google search will soon add live TV listings and that Google Fiber will soon expand to 11 U.S.

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