Online TV Takes the Lead

Used to be, if you wanted to watch your favorite show online you'd have to wait until after it was broadcast on TV. That's where premieres and new episodes were always shown, in order to keep the majority of the audience watching the programs - and the commercials that came along with them - on television.

Last week, though, NBC announced that this fall it will be streaming season premieres of many of its shows on Hulu.com before they're broadcast on TV. It won't be long before TV and the Internet are the same device...