Television Jamaica is yet to
launched TVJ Everywhere as I'd predicted back in September 2014 as stated in my
blog article
entitled “RJR
Communications Group Launching TVJ Everywhere - How Streaming TVJ Everywhere
will boost Advertising Revenue as Digicel and LIME TV coming”
But
a huge change is coming nonetheless.
Television Jamaica's live
streaming on their website will end on Tuesday March 31st 2015 as
can be seen from the screenshot below that surprised my this Monday March 2nd
2014.
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Instead,
if you're a Laptop or Desktop user like myself, you'll have to sign up for an
account on 1Spotmedia's Website so
that you can log in and stream Television
Jamaica's content. I suspect the same may also go for access to their
Archived Content, as they've imposed a paywall of US$9.99 for Americans and
other non-Jamaicans to stream their content.
I
can already start hearing the howls of disappointment for many abroad as Television Jamaica follows in the
footsteps of Major Networks such as CBS and most recently NBC News in December
2014 as stated in my blog article
entitled “NBC
Universal NBC Live Streaming Service - How TV Everywhere is American Streaming
TV's Future as Comcast steps into 21st Century” who have begun either putting
up paywalls or Ad subsidized Streaming.
This
was expected, as advertising cannot pay for the cost of content as I'll explain
below.
Television Jamaica
throws up a Paywall - Monetization of Traffic as viewers can steal their
Content
If
this seems familiar, it should be.
The
US$9.99 is the same monthly charge being proffered to Jamaican and
Internationals by the Jamaica Gleaner
who had launch their paywall on Thursday December 2nd 2013 as stated
in my blog
article entitled “The
Jamaica Gleaner’s US$9.99 Paywall goes live on Thursday January 2nd 2014 - News
is no longer free as Tomorrow Never Dies for The Paper Man”.
Back
then I’d predicted doom and gloom on this idea, stating that many Jamaican
would switch to the Jamaica Observer,
even as the possibility lingered that they too might also be tempted to go the
paywall route as predicted in my blog article
entitled “The
Jamaica Gleaner Paywall and the Jamaica Observer makeover - Affiliate
Advertising and Sponsored Articles coming to My Thoughts on Technology and
Jamaica”.
Alas
that never happened and I still needed to do my article based on The Jamaica Gleaner's own as sources.
So
aside from switching somewhat to the
Jamaica Observer, I eventually developed a way to breach their Paywall
using Google Chrome and a good Cookie cleaner as explained in my blog article
entitled “How
to get around The Jamaica Gleaner Content Paywall using Google Chrome or
PDFCreator - Google Web Inspector is That Awkward Moment when The Monuments Men
Break down the Paywall”.
This
works mainly on Desktop and Laptop computers but not on smartphones or Tablets;
still working on that solution!
Television Jamaica
monetizing Traffic – 1,000,000 Views monthly covers cost and make website
profitable
This
Television Jamaica Paywall came
as no surprise.
With
their Traffic level growing, especially from Internationals tuning in for Smile
Jamaica, their Morning time programme, they have to cover the expense of their
website Hosting as well as access to Archived content for the show. Most
likely, they've hit some 1,000,000 views per month, so a Paywall would generate
enough revenue to cover their expenses without too much of a backlash from
faithful viewers.
In
addition, as it stands, people can download videos from their website using
Internet Download Manager as explained in my blog article
entitled “UWI's
planning to increase all Tuition by 5.5% come the new Academic Year 2013-2014 -
How to Download ANY Video, including Facebook Videos, Convert and Free Video
Hosting Online”.
Once
Television Jamaica migrates
their content to 1Spotmedia that’ll
enable them with VOD (Video on Demand) capabilities, they'd not only reduce
Internet Video Piracy but also make Revenue from the increased traffic that's
undoubtedly increasing monthly on their hugely popular Website.
Here’s
the link:
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