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On the Media

Who’s gonna pay for this stuff?

On the Media

WNYC Studios

News, Radio, Amendment, Transparency, History, Micah_loewinger, Technology, Advertising, Politics, Society & Culture, Magazine, Journalism, Tv, Wnyc, Newspaper, Brooke_gladstone, Studios, Npr, Newspapers, Media

4.69.1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2013

⏱️ 52 minutes

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0:00.0

In this golden age of content we had on the media want to know who's going to pay for all this stuff?

0:07.0

How do you make money on the music business? Don't make money on the music business.

0:11.0

That's the answer to that question.

0:13.0

Basically what you're doing by using our blocker is you're walking into a show, taking the goods, and you're walking out without paying.

0:20.0

My favorite group of people said,

0:22.3

oh, I'm sorry, I won't do that. And then there was a very small group that just said,

0:26.9

hey, your site is going to go away sooner or later. There's another video game site that I read.

0:31.5

I don't care. I kind of like this idea of entrepreneurial journalism. It's just a puzzle like

0:37.0

anything else. And I'm a puzzle like anything else,

0:37.6

and I'm a producer,

0:38.5

and my job is to solve problems.

0:40.5

The question is, is TV different

0:43.0

than music and newspapers?

0:45.5

Those businesses were ravaged by the digital world,

0:48.6

and they basically fell off a cliff.

0:50.7

I don't think there's a silver bullet here.

0:52.9

No silver bullets, but plenty of investment.

0:55.7

Hey, there's more coming up after this.

0:59.8

Hi, podcast listeners.

1:01.3

This is a free service of WNYC radio.

1:03.9

Go to on the media.org to find out where on the media is playing in your area

1:07.3

and to support your local public radio station.

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