Monday, May 28, 2012

MUST WATCH programming note: Stay Tuned: The future of TV tonight on CNBC Africa at 22:00.


If you're in the TV industry, love the medium as a consumer or TV viewers, you want to absolute need to watch the TV special, Stay Tuned: The Future of TV tonight on CNBC Africa (DStv 410) at 22:00 (South African time).

A few weeks ago I asked CNBC Africa to please alert me when this very special documentary gets scheduled for South Africa and Africa and CNBC Africa just alerted me to this CNBC American special which was shown just over two weeks ago. Besides the broadcast tonight Stay Tuned: The Future of TV will be repeated on CNBC Africa on Thursday at 23:00.

Stay Tuned: The Future of TV is absolutely must-watch for TV executives in South Africa, as well as anybody who wants to know, see and find out from the foremost TV executives from all spheres in America who are all weighing in on the revolusionary changes happening to this powerful medium.

The 80 year old TV industry is at the precipice of massive changes and experiencing a massive distribution and content revolution. The widely anticipated covergence of personal computers, the internet and television is finally happening. In the next two years, viewers in more than 140 million American homes will watch their favourite TV shows, video clips and movies on Smart TV's, not to mention other gadgets connected to the internet.

Every aspect of TV creation and distribution is impacted and for companies new and old, billions of dollars are on the line. CNBC's Stay Tuned: The Future of TV, reported by Julia Boorstin takes viewers inside the companies competing to shape and have a stake in the new connected reality of television.