AirPlay, a software tool included with Apple’s iPads and iPhones, is widely viewed as being potentially disruptive to the cable industry, because it makes it easy for people to view a broad variety of Internet content on a television. Time Warner Cable’s leader, however, hasn’t heard of it.

Glenn A. Britt, the company’s chief executive, said in a group interview on Friday that the challenge for digital video was that there was no simple way to get Internet-based video onto the television screen. He wasn’t familiar with AirPlay.

“I’m not sure I know what AirPlay is,” he said, though he noted that he was an enthusiastic Apple customer. “Today we want to be on every screen. Today it’s a little bit clunky to get programming from the Internet onto the TV — not so hard to get it on your iPad. What’s hard is the plumbing, what wires do you connect, what device do you use. So the current Apple TV, the little thing, the hockey puck, really doesn’t do anything to help enable you to get Internet material on your TV.”

Aereo, the service that captures free over-the-air TV broadcasts and streams them online for $12 a month, has come under fire from just about every major TV content provider, from local and national networks to the National Association of Broadcasters. This Wednesday, several of them filed statements seeking a preliminary injunction that would stop Aereo from operating while it deals with the suits against it. So what arguments are NBCUniversal, CBS, Fox, a local ABC affiliate, and others making against Aereo?

The biggest complaint about Aereo’s service is, unsurprisingly, that it will lead to a kind of tragedy of the commons. If Aereo doesn’t pay for service, critics say, why would anyone else want to? “It makes little economic sense for cable systems and satellite broadcasters to continue to pay for NBCU content on a per-subscriber basis,” says Matt Bond of NBCUniversal, “when, with a relatively modest investment, they can simply modify their operations to mirror Aereo’s ‘individual antenna’ scheme and retransmit, for free, over-the-air local broadcast programming.” In other words, they could use the same setup as Aereo, capturing broadcasts over a “tiny antenna” for each customer, and get around paying to include local channels in their packages.

A TV production company from York has launched Britain’s first web-tv channel dedicated exclusively to dogs.

Mandrill Television, of Poppleton, led by former Press reporter and Press business personality of the year Chris Wise, is targeting www.dogsclub.tv at Britain’s eight million dog owners and countless millions more around the globe.

Promising “everything canine online”, it offers free advice on basic training, grooming and behaviour problems in video demonstrations from specialists such as Jane Hanshaw, who runs an animal behaviour counselling practice near Selby.