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Could it really turn out that a company with a seemingly loopy business model -- capturing over-the-air TV signals and streaming them to subscribers over the Internet -- will be the thing that finally brings down the American broadcasting industry? Quite possibly. 捕获无线电视信号，然后通过因特网传送给用户——这种看起来异想天开的商业模式，会不会成为最终颠覆美国电视业的罪魁祸首？太有可能了。 Chase Carey, News Corp.'s (NWSA) chief operating officer, said Monday that if the company in question, Aereo, is allowed to continue, his company's Fox Broadcasting, and all its affiliate stations, will stop broadcasting over the air and go all-cable. "If CBS, NBC, and ABC follow," says Bloomberg News, it would "mark an end to television as it's been known since The Honeymooners aired in the 1950s." So far, those networks haven't weighed in, but the Spanish-language TV giant Univision has: It made a similar threat after Carey made his remarks during to the National Association of Broadcasters convention in Las Vegas. 本周一，资讯集团（News Corp.）首席运营官切斯•凯里表示，如果备受质疑的Aereo公司获准继续运营，那么资讯集团旗下的福克斯广播（Fox Broadcasting）以及所有附属电视台都将停用无线信号，改用有线传输。彭博资讯社（Bloomberg News）报道：“如果哥伦比亚广播公司（CBS）、全国广播公司（NBC）和美国广播公司（ABC）效仿，自20世纪50年代随着《蜜月新人》（The Honeymooners ）的播出而兴起的电视产业将就此走到尽头。”到目前为止，这些广播公司尚未表态，不过西班牙语电视巨头Univision却掺合了进来。继凯里在全国广播事业工作者协会（National Association of Broadcasters）于拉斯维加斯举办的会议上发出威胁之后，Univision也发表了类似的言论。 | 
