Replies to post #9708 on Players Network Inc. (fka PNTV)

[arvitar]

You'd think with that kind of talent and experience on their team, PNTV would be able to make a profit after 10 years to trying.

Do you have any ideas as to why their track record in this regard has been so abysmal?

[mediaguy]

All about building and constructing a new media company.
As far as I know every media company in history goes through a building cycle before growing sponsorship and revenues. from MTV to E to ESPN to Food Network to Hulu to Google to yahoo and so on. PNTV is a new media vod tv network, running videos on the internet only became a profitable about 6months ago, when the bandwidth cost dropped and encoding technology got better. PNTV achievements from attracting resources, obtaining distribution and audience is huge. imho, as i have repeatedly said 2011 is when they turn on the revenue engines both on the tv side with dynamic ad insertion and on the web side with membership subscriptions, micro transactions, virtual currencies. Most companies did not have the patience that PNTV did to wait for the market to develop and burned capital.. PNTV management is GENIUS, waiting for the right timing. it is one of the reasons I love this stock so much there are only 60 million shares and 29 million in the float. Not hundreds of millions.
My guess that is what Tice liked too. The business, the plan, the team, the stock, the industry, the media play, the growth potential. And I love having someone worth more than 1/2 billion with a b as a 10% owner.. anyone foolish enough not to understand PNTV is going up and going to nasdaq is just blind to very transparent information. only a matter of time, imho and will happen in the very foreseeable future

[mediaguy]

Great Industry article today in Hollywood report about HULU, who is a PNTV media Partner.
Doubled revenues from last year. i love the quote about ads being 55% more effective than ads on traditional television according to Nielsen. That is why PNTV media partners, comcast, verizon, dish, direct tv, all are going vod, it is the future for advertisers!!!! PNTV niche in gaming and vegas is awesome space. very foreseeable future my friend.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/sites/default/files/Nov11daily.pdf


A RARE LOOK AT HULU FIGURES
By Georg Szalai
NEW YORK — Online video venture Hulu expects to generate more than $240 million in revenue this year, more than double the $108 million recorded in 2009, CEO Jason Kilar said Wednesday in providing a rare glimpse into the com­pany’s financials.
Hulu shared some of the data and information that he presented at the New­ TeeVee Live 2010 confer­ ence in San Francisco. The company, a venture of Disney, News Corp., NBC Universal and private equity firm Providence Capital Partners, said a few months ago that it was profitable.
The company didn’t discuss a possible initial public offering that it is believed to be considering.
Kilar did mention Wednesday that Hulu served 30 million users in the past month and that 260 million content streams and 800 million ad streams were consumed on the service during the past month.
Kilar highlighted that Hulu is looking to help innovate the future of advertising with new offers. He also cited Nielsen IAG research showing that ads on Hulu are 55% more effective than the same ads on traditional TV.
In other Hulu news, Sony’s PlayStation Network said Wednesday that all PS3 owners with a free Play­ Station Network account are now able