With religion on fictional television growing, why is it so difficult for press and PR to acknowledge this shift within the industry?
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Straddling the “Edge”: The Invisible Trend of Religion on TV
Crumbsucking the FM Dial
Broadcasters are paying top-dollar for the last useable scraps of the FM spectrum. John Anderson explores the booming market in translator stations and their implications for diversity on the dial.
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The More You Know About Cross-Promotion
Was Katy Perry's Super Bowl ride on a star resembling one made famous by a series of 1990s PSAs an example of cross-promotion? We don't know and NBC doesn't care--but the incident tells us something important about the logics of contemporary media industries.
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There Are Worse Things Fox Could Do: Grease Live and TV’s Sad Affair with the Live Musical
In the era of multiple platform viewing and increased time-shifting, television turns to the musical. But Fox's selection of Grease seems to ignore a string of warning signs.
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I, Reboot (Part II)
This second installment of "I, Reboot" dives into the origins of the reboot-as-narrative-analogy and distinguishes "reboot" from "ret-con."
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I, Reboot (Part 1)
What is a reboot, then? This is the overarching question of this series of articles and one which I have been wrestling with for six years or so.
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Les Brown: Thinking Inside the Box
Noel Holston celebrates the life and work of Les Brown, TV journalist and historian, editor at Variety, and renown expert on the business of television.
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Rethinking Media Distribution
Chuck Tryon discusses Jeff Ulin's latest book on media distribution, focusing on temporal and spatial considerations in a global, digital marketplace.
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Is Orange the New Television?
The success of Netflix's original series Orange is the New Black says something about our culture’s readiness for complex, sexually diverse female characters.
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Enough Said? Beasts of the Southern Wild, SharkNado, and Extreme Weather
In this short post I’d like to juxtapose an unlikely pair of films in order to push harder at the taken-for-granted mythologies of extreme weather: SharkNado and Beasts of the Southern Wild.
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Phones Coming to a Theater Near You?
Some influential figures of the cinema world are tentatively exploring a loosening of bans on cell phones during select screenings, refueling the ever-controversial debate of movie theater etiquette.
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The Future of Media Production?
The idea of user-supported media production extends beyond Kickstarter, as technology continues to offer more areas for direct audience support and participation.
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What Are You Missing? March 17-March 30
Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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What Are You Missing? March 3-March 16
Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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On Radio: Strange Bedfellows
Clear Channel has figured out how to profit from college radio. Can college radio survive its embrace?
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