Description: Netflix CEO, Reed Hastings, compares broadcast TV to a horse and says that broadcast TV will probably last until 2030. In Canada, companies such as Rogers and Shaw have been losing cable customers at a rate of nearly 200,000 per year.

Source:  Huffington Post

Date: November 28, 2014

Video and Text Link: http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2014/11/28/broadcast-tv-dead-netflix-reed-hastings_n_6237752.html?utm_hp_ref=canada-business

Questions for Discussion:

1. Explain non-linear digital TV and how is it different from broadcast TV?
2. Do you agree with Reed Hastings’s prediction for broadcast TV?
3. Discuss the future of the TV industry over the next 25 years?