For the same reason CNN take three "pages" for their story: They don't understand that the world has changed. Scrub that: They don't understand the world. They really don't.<p>Here in the UK we have the wonderful BBC. I can watch everything the BBC produces online in real-time and for the following two weeks (or something like that). All radio stations are also available (and retained for weeks). It's brilliant, and I love it.<p>I don't own a tv -- well, I technically have one, hooked up to a PS3 in the playroom -- but it has no tv abilities. Actually, that's not true either as I can access the BBC's iPlayer via the PS3, but that's not the tv's fault.<p>The only reason folk can't watch tv online -- presumably in the USA -- is because the "transmitting" stations don't provide the service. That's idiotic.<p>This is clueless, narrow-minded marketing. But I'm used to that now. I place marketing one below estate agents in the imagination stakes. And they've earned that place due to utter incompetence over the past decade or two.<p>In the real world, there is no reason why this can't happen. In the real world, it's happening all the time, 24/7. It's happening right now.