Ladies and gentlemen, we have a new entrant into the online television race. Coming in with $12.5 million in venture capital and the backing of Michael Eisner and Time Warner (in a manner of speaking), Veoh Networks Inc. is planning to allow users to program their own “channels” for television programming.
Was it just two weeks ago that Rox was asking, not totally rhetorically, why we needed networks at all? We’ve all been turning that question over in our minds, trying to grasp what “network” means to us. It remains an open question, though I’m increasingly moving toward the network is the channel is the network. theory. So I find the following rather interesting: