Where’s the Caribbean CONTENT?

Jamaica–We’ve heard it from friends and read the press releases of all of these Jamaican and Caribbean IPTV companies that have launched, offering authentic Jamaican and Caribbean content online. Great that we now have oodles of distributors, channels to choose from, with only one issue…where’s the content?

The fact is that most Caribbean radio,tv,cable carry a steady diet of Americana. As a region we don’t create, package professionally and distribute enough origial content to feed the content needs of the many online distributors that are popping up now. In fact our biggest content creating industry is music and even so we stretching it. The biggest creator and distributor of original content is TEMPO, they learnt from their predecessor who waited for Godot, waited on the music industry to produce that content. It didn’t happen, they died.

The winners in the IPTV, Caribbean radio and tv online will be those who create their own content consistently or form partners with the myriad of original content creators in the region and in the Caribbean Diaspora. That said, it’s a great opportunity for idea gods with a sense of what is great content and make an impact. The technology is cheaper, digital cameras, iMacs or laptops with editing software are cheaper and more accessible to everyone, just comes down to the better ideas. He who was the best and most consistent content wins. Content is still King baby!

Check out: www.cbtv1.com, jam247.tv,realvibez.com, www.kariblinktv.com