Talk about understatement. "Everything about television is changing," said Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.), in announcing the Commerce Committee's hearing next week on "The Emergence of Online Video: Is It the Future?"
The hearing, set for Tuesday, will examine how traditional TV is migrating to the Internet and how "disruptive technologies" are changing the business and legal models for TV and video.
To take on this ambitious topic, Rockefeller has lined up four witnesses who are no strangers to new media platforms and technology, including Barry Diller, the chairman and senior executive of media and advertising company IAC and an investor in Aereo, an upstart pay TV service that delivers broadcast TV via the Internet.
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