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Dino Corbin: In the beginning, there were basically three networks, ABC, NBC, and CBS. Cable rolls in and starts wiring up houses and offering a multitude of options. And then, follow that with satellite delivery. And it completely changed the landscape and the competitive environment. All of a sudden, the networks had to start competing on a completely new and different landscape.

Robin Sloan: There's one change that has yet to happen. But when it does, it's going to completely transform the way we think about TV news. And that change is that we all have mobile phones with really, really good video cameras and fast connections to the internet.

Terry Curtis: The reality of the network today is that every terminal is both a receiver and a sender. And so it's many to many. The network becomes not one to many, but many to many.

Robin Sloan: Suddenly, anything that happens-- and certainly big things like protests, disasters, breaking news, big sudden crazy events-- it'll be documented by 1,000 people from every angle imaginable. How does that change the way we think about TV production? How does that change the way we think about watching news unfold in real time? Nobody knows. But it is going to be a earthquake when it happens.

David Gale: Yeah. I think it's probably already happened. I think that any kid could have their own network right now. The tools are available. We take it for granted at this point.

Peggy Miles: A network is a community. It doesn't matter if it's a community on Facebook or Myspace or on a television station. It's bringing together people. And there might be somebody, one kid, that has a skateboard channel. And he really knows what he's doing. He's an expert.

David Gale: So what you would have as an editing system or as a means of creating your own television network of your own, however you may define that. Because you may define a network-- if you're defining it as traditional like a TV network, where it's programming and you can put it out there, that's one kind of network.

Or you can create, describe, or define a network as a group of people coming together, which is the way people are talking about networking right now. So network on the TV side, when you think about TV, is one term. Network the way I think most people think about it today in new media is a totally different term. But they come together in an interesting way.