TV Networks are making a big mistake!!
 

I was looking at the courttv website and they have some trial online but not the forensic files show.

I used to watch that all the time on cable, but I don't watch tv much anymore. But I would definitely wath the show online at my convience.

So my thinking is that people who like tv will have cable and rather watch the show on their fantastic tv. So even if the show is broadcast online, the show would not reduce it's tv audience at all. In fact I think it will simply mean that many people will watch the episode twice and thus see the ads again. And people like me, who never watch tv, just increase their ad expose rate.

I think networks that ran a lot of their full shows online could blow youtube away. Of course there is the issue that some shows are produced by independent studios and they are the ones stopping the online distribution.

Would not really call it a mistake. Was reading an article the other day in the wall street about NBC. Numbers wise all the big money comes from tv ads. Their online ads do not contribute to much of their profits. Until ad rates go up for online I doubt they see it as a mistake.

UHHH? When they put the show on the internet they are advertising themselves. Which could lead to more television viewers, which mean higher rating and thus the ability to charge more for the television ads.

It's a mistake of the magnitude as if youtube had blocked hotlinking it's videos.