The “network” conundrum I think is one of the biggest questions for this new industry. How do you grow beyond one hit show, expand out, and create some scale, without fragmenting everything into separate silos. Or worse, end up creating clones of your hit show that aren’t creatively different.

One thing I’m curious about. I wonder what Drew thinks of what Leo Laporte is doing with TWiT Live?

#1 – The top reason will always be the content; not taking the extra time to make a show as good as possible (e.g. saying that “Everything is good enough” instead of “It’s as good as we can possibly do”).

#2 – Notice that to the benefit of content creators like Epic-Fu and WLT for instance, they are on all of these new networks while maintaining freedom and identity across all of them, and consequently, devaluing the networks to a common stock, similar to the platform problem Metacafe, Dailymotion and Revver might be having (e.g. who can give more distribution and who has the revenue are the only questions at this point). Traditional networks have always depended on exclusivity, and that loss of exclusivity is what I have always claimed would contribute to their demise, looking a lot like the situation I think these new networks are in.