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Tech fears tackled at Cologne Conference


October 13, 2008 Traditional television revenue models are crumbling, but that's nothing to be worried about, at least according a wide range of speakers at this year's Cologne Conference. The main message to come out of the German TV festival and confab, which wrapped Monday, was that big industry bugaboos including Internet piracy and TiVo-like time-shifting technology won't mean the end of TV. Daniel Hetzer, Fox TV Studios vp programming, added a note of caution, pointing out that online success stories still earn a fraction of traditional television shows.

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