Kill Your Televison... or Just Let It Die Naturally...

Word of the new media revolution is spreading.

An STBD mention was brought to our attention in today's column from the Wilton Villager, which serves the town of Wilton, CT. In it, columnist Richard Frisch alerts people to the fact that they can start trading in their terrestrial TV equipment and go strictly computer for their entertainment.

Says Frisch:

"My recent research indicates that the traditional, major players, the U.S. over-the-air networks are behind the times when it comes to Internet television. You can bypass them for almost everything. Network television viewers are decreasing because there are so many entertainment alternatives."

Those of us who make this media for a living (and I use that term loosely at this point) have known about this for years now. But seeing these kinds of reports popping up in increasingly smaller newspapers, which traditionally target a non-early adopter audience, says something about the speed at which this medium is changing.

It also reminds me that you don't need to live in a major metropolis to connect with the medium -- either as a viewer or a creator. Perhaps the age of social networking and user-generated content will be seen as something even bigger when gazed upon by history: the tipping point in which geography ceased to be a limiting factor for the cultural evolution of the species.