The Fox – Cablevision stand-off has been cast as a financial stalemate between a content supplier and a distributor.  Fox wants more money for their broadcast stations and Cablevision doesn’t want to pay more.

Broadcasters have viewed revenue generated from must carry rules as a now essential revenue stream for their stations since their audiences have been in a constant decline for the past 20 years.  Cable MSOs have made a lot of money charging consumers for bundled programming they don’t want but have to take to get the channels they want.

So in this stand off, who are the winners?  Sports …

In the Industrial Age we lived with an economy based upon atoms.  In the Information Age we created an economy based upon bits.  The zeros and ones in the title of this column of course represent the digits upon which the Information Age is based.

On 01/01/10 I wrote a column naming the decade 2010-2020 the Transformation Decade, explaining the term and what will come to pass in this decade.  As regular readers know I believe we have left the Information Age and entered the Shift Age, hence the title of my book “The Shift Age”.  Since January first …