I hosted a talk by the CEO of TVNZ (New Zealand) Rik Ellis last night. New Zealand broadcasting has been through some tumultuous times in terms of funding and status.
However the most extraordinary thing Rik told us was that more people now watch programmes time shifted through broadband than watch through their TV. The online on-demand service was only launched 18 months ago but has already overtaken conventional TV viewing with 30,000 hours a month consumed over broadband.
Just let that sink in a moment.
Is broadband referring to IPTV provided by the telco or over a broadband internet connection where the it's beeing watched on a PC through their portal/player?
This quote goes into my next slidedeck if it is the latter....
Posted by: mohamed | October 15, 2008 at 06:20 AM
I may be out of date, but AFAIK New Zealand has no commercial IPTV services, so it must be the latter. It's an amazing claim, especially since broadband penetration's not that high in NZ.
Posted by: MarkB | October 17, 2008 at 02:47 PM