In fact, I heard all of those questions posed—some of them multiple times—at our first annual Pay TV Show in Denver a few weeks back. The answers were always nuanced, often vaguely unsatisfying … and sometimes funny as hell.
“That’s like walking into the baby section of a hospital and saying which one of these children is going to survive,” quipped Brett Sappington, senior director of research for Parks Associates, answering Fierce Telecom Group Editor-in-Chief Mike Dano’s question about which vMVPD will probably bite the dust first.
From the article "Deeper Dive—Nothing’s dying in pay TV, it’s just getting segmented and iterated" by Daniel Frankel.
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