There was a time when owning a TV broadcast licence was a licence to print money. As if the many cable competitors and the downloading of TV shows were not enough competition for free to air, the networks are now faced with video on demand.
Check out the story at gigaom about the re-launch of Arrested Development (a brilliant sitcom) on the Netflix VOD platform. This and similar moves with other shows is developing VOD as a platform to compete with the traditional distribution channel.
The reminder for me is that none of us can run our businesses expecting traditional supply channels to work for us in the future. How people buy much of what we sell is changing rapidly … as is happening in TV.