The Death of Television
“The Case of the Disappearing TV Viewer”, the headline in yesterday’s paper read.The subtitle of this article was “Networks ponder why audiences aren’t tuning in like they used to”
As I read, I had to suppress a full laugh. I settled for a knowing smirk.
Let’s face it. There are only a few truly good shows on television. Gray’s Anatomy, Lost, Heroes and a handful of others make up a very small portion of what could be passed off as quality. The rest of it? Well, I’m sure you’d have something to say about that.
And furthermore, the Internet is changing EVERYTHING!
While the network execs scratch their heads and wonder what in the world is happening to their ratings, you and I know that the new media is taking over.
Don’t believe me?
Take a look at YouTube, now the fourth most popular web site in the world.
Yes, in the WORLD.
It’s because the power now rests in the hands of those who choose to use this new medium to broadcast their OWN programs.
LonelyGirl15 did it.
Ask a Ninja did it. (If you haven’t seen Ask a Ninja yet, you are missing out on one of life’s guilty pleasures.)
Now we’re doing it with the web’s first Internet marketing reality show, The Next Internet Millionaire.
The buzz is growing, and in the first two weeks we are already mentioned or linked on over 20,000 web pages!
And it is because of you! The general public loves the story and bloggers are writing about it like crazy. Auditions are coming in and our web site actually had more traffic than AmericanIdol.com one day last week according to the Alexa rating service.
Now, I’d like to invite you to take part in the buzz in a whole new way.
And I’d like to offer you a link on The Next Internet Millionaire web site, as well as an opportunity to win an iPod Nano!
It’s easy and will take just a few minutes of your time. I promise it will be worth it.
Just become a Next Internet Millionaire Superstar! Click this link to read more…
http://www.nextinternetmillionaire.com/superstars/
Thanks for helping us send a message to the keepers of the old media. The world is changing, and you are helping that change to be for the better. 
Become a Next Internet Millionaire Superstar today, get your free link on the site, and have your chance at an iPod Nano.
May 22nd, 2007 at 7:44 am
I was just having a conversation with a friend of mine today about this very thing… Neither of us have (OR WANT) connections to Television. We have TV’s… (I have a BIG TV), but it has no connection to the outside world. Why would I want to have someone else controlling what my mind is seeing when I have the power to choose?
Thanks for this post Joel! I couldn’t agree more!
May 25th, 2007 at 8:30 am
Good-day Joel and support staff,
One reads somewhere that “and the meek shall inherit the earth”.
Indeed, “the foundation of life is freedom,
the purpose of life is joy
and the result is growth”.
The conventional media thus far, is demonstrably oblivious to that incontestable fact
at best, and at worst seems to function to attempt to evaporate human creativity.
Such an effort is unnatural and cannot endure.
Television as a functional technology is fantastic.
It is the programming on there that sucks. It sucks!.
Inevitably, the true essence of being human has to naturally emerge,
and the artificial make-believe forced mind-set very reluctantly takes a bow,
gone with the wind.
Although one cannot see the wind, what it does is crystal clear.
The “Next Internet Millionaire”- the first ever internet marketing show
is a true natural growth of and alignment to the essence of being human:
the freedom to imagine what can be and to be creative.
Viewers who are beginners, newbies or new-comers to internet marketing,
will be pleased to realise that
the so called NEWBIE INTERNET TECHNOLOGY TRAP is hereby solved.
Do not re-invent the wheel, so to speak,instead copy what is working
as the “aunthetic-gurus” spill the beans on this blog.
Matter of fact, the Next Internet Millionaire blog is doing double pleasant duty,
that of being, by default, part of a spectrum spelling the “death of television”,
and that of being a NEWBIES RESCUE, from the very steep and long
learning curve of the internet marketing world.
Very well done Joel.
May 28th, 2007 at 11:30 am
Hey guys… We have been discussing the death of mainstream TV on our cable access show for the past couple of weeks. We also just got permission to run a tag for the competition on the show at the bottom, so thats a positive step. Its really interesting to get our live callers reaction to new media in general.
Keep up the good work
Stech
May 29th, 2007 at 2:55 am
AMEN TO THAT.
THE INTERNET IS PRETTY MUCH THE ONLY MEDIUM THAT THE GOVERNMENT CAN NOT CENCER.
June 4th, 2007 at 2:23 am
Hi Joel,
I am sorry… but I can only agree 66% with you!
Just replace “Gray’s Anatomy, Lost, Heroes” with “24, Lost, Heroes” and we are up to 100%!
Best regards,
Frank Bauer
PS: Why are people confusing me with Joel Comm? See for yourself at http://FrankBauer.name/blog/110 !