BBC News are reporting that TV 'reach' is dropping for those aged 16-24, and a little less for 25-34. Of course, it has everything to do with the Internet. The Internet is teaching the world the lesson that television doesn't want to hear - that content and channels are completely seperale and recombinable at the whim of the user. That's something which naïve designers don't understand. 
Someone who I was briefly acquainted to didn't understand this lesson either. They loved Flash. I explained to them the problems with Flash, namely that you can't print Flash content, nor can it be viewed by people with blind screen readers, nor can it be cut-and-pasted by bloggers and those who are analysing it.
He then said "Well, I can let them do so if I want to."
As if he not only owned the content but had the right to prevent anybody doing anything with it beyond looking at it on a screen.
The television companies want the same thing as my clueless Flash developer acquaintance. They want to ignore the simple fact that people don't want to watch a programme at a certain time. They want to watch it when they want to watch it.
