The Cable Gamer doesn't pretend to understand all the ins and outs of cable/Internet technology. But she knows that FiOS, the super-hot Internet service from Verizon, is totally cool. And so it was interesting to see FiOS embracing Fox Business News.
And to see Roger Ailes, chief of FBN and the Fox News Channel, saying off-handedly to Fortune magazine's Tim Arango:
"We're basically launching two channels on Oct. 15. We're launching a cable channel and an Internet channel. You can't tell me that five years from now the Internet site might not be more valuable."
In other words, the Net is ultimately the place to be: Right now, Kable is Kool, and separate from the Net. But over the long run, the The Cable Game will eventually be folded into The Internet Game. People will still sit back and "watch," of course, as they do with TV, but the "pipeline" will be Net-based.
And so writer Arango adds of Ailes, "He may be right about the website's eventually being worth more, since advertising in this sector is booming."
For all The Cable Gamer knows, something better and faster than FiOS will come along. But for now, FiOS is at the cutting edge, and FBN is there.
