The first major threat to broadcast television's dominance was, of
course, cable television -- and that was pretty much the only threat
until deep into the Internet era when predictions began rolling in about
how we’d all be watching TV on our computers eventually, and TV itself
would die a slow death.
Obviously, that dark prophecy never came to pass. The Internet needed
content, and content isn’t cheap. But as Americans became more
comfortable with streaming content on their computers and mobile devices
(high-speed connections helped a lot), the time for Big Money arrived.
Netflix proved that if
