A new direction for Internet TV?
Get in all the free Internet TV watching in you can while you can: speaking last evening at an Internet Week event, News Corp's new Chief Digital Officer (CDO) Jonathan Miller says their service Hulu will likely be monetized in the future, if only partly.
He did note he is new to the corporation, and this is only speculation on his part, but, "in my opinion the answer could be yes. I don't see why over time that shouldn't happen. I don't think it's on the agenda for Monday [but] it seems to me that over time that could be a logical thing."
Miller isn't clueless or anything, either -- he's currently in charge of pushing forward the adoption of monetized digital content generated by News Corp, for which he suggests bundles are the way forward regarding newspapers and such.
In a sense, his proposition of sorts is viable, as more users seem to be flocking toward the Internet for their television fix, moving the traditional TV model to the Internet seems logical from a business perspective. However, we'd guess this would be likely to divide audiences -- those watching TV via user-controlled services like TiVo, and those watching via the Internet, as opposed to the direction in which things are currently heading.