Tetrogrammaton

Tetragrammaton When I was a kid, there were three television networks.

There was a rotary dial that you turned to get these three video television choices.

And over the next 20, 30 years,

we saw first a number of cable, quote,

stations, close quote, came into being.

And then I remember being at a cable convention in, I think, the early 70s,

where John Malone, a great cable pioneer, was on the stage and said,

there will be a 500- 500 channel universe, cable universe.

And that was the first time anyone said it, and you may recall this, the 500 channel universe,

which for about a decade after was the reference point.

And of course, how overly true that is. We have way more than that. If you take

YouTube, et cetera, we have thousands and thousands of, quote, channels, close quote. So I've seen this

evolution of enormous scarcity, basically three places that you could view things, to what we have today.

All of that has not, though, changed the essential nature of, call it mass communication

media, which is when you got an idea and then you can execute it, make it, whether it's a television series

or a movie or whatever, while the distribution methods have changed, the form factor may

have changed, but the form hasn't changed.

It's still storytelling.

It's always going to be storytelling of one form or the other.

Has the fact that it went from the three networks to now maybe unlimited possibilities,

changed anything?

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