Broadcasters - Want to get in on $7.2 billion of stimulus money?
May 11, 2009
For several years broadcasters have been advised that streaming is becoming a necessity. The Internet is rapidly becoming a major, if not the preferred, distribution medium for a significant new population of viewers and listeners who have grown up in the age of the Internet and broadband Internet will expand significantly over the next several years.
During the campaign of 2008, President Obama advocated an aggressive program to extend and improve broadband access to every American. According to a 2008 report of the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, the United States ranks 15th out of 30 countries in broadband access, speed and price. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) also reports that the United States ranks 15th and continuing to drop further in the global rankings, though we still have the most overall broadband subscribers among OECD countries...
For several years broadcasters have been advised that streaming is becoming a necessity. The Internet is rapidly becoming a major, if not the preferred, distribution medium for a significant new population of viewers and listeners who have grown up in the age of the Internet and broadband Internet will expand significantly over the next several years.
During the campaign of 2008, President Obama advocated an aggressive program to extend and improve broadband access to every American. According to a 2008 report of the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, the United States ranks 15th out of 30 countries in broadband access, speed and price. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) also reports that the United States ranks 15th and continuing to drop further in the global rankings, though we still have the most overall broadband subscribers among OECD countries...
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