Second screening The Masters, and the slow death of television

If there’s one area that TV should have the high ground on, it’s live sporting events of national prominence. Yet…

The second screen experience slowly replaced the first — I barely looked up at the television. CBS’s reverent, almost whispered coverage took a back seat as I programmed my version of the Masters. The function that would have allowed me to throw the Internet coverage to my big-screen television was not enabled, but that’s only a matter of time. Change often comes very slowly, but then happens all at once.

I await once more with keen interest what this year’s Eurovision Song Contest will bring the connected experience, be it from the EBU, another company, or something hacked together to try something cool.