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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Tags: Amazon, Blockbuster, China, digital distribution, digital media, distribution, Global Media, industry, intellectual property, jeff ulin, Netflix, svod, tvod, video
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Here are ten or more media industry news items you might have missed recently
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Tags: Blockbuster, Charter, Deadline, FCC, Marvel, Netflix, RAI, Time Warner Cable, Twitter
Posted in Columns, Current Events, Industry, What Are You Missing? | Comments Off on What Are You Missing? Oct 28 – Nov 10
Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Tags: Aereo, Comcast, FCC, FilmOn X, HBO, isoHunt, Mattel, Netflix, piracy, popcorn, SiriusXM, Sony Music, Twitter
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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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Tags: gender, industry, Netflix, Orange is the New Black, race/ethnicity, sexuality, television, transgender
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Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Antenna contributors review the new fall series from everyone's favorite pretend broadcast network.
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Tags: 2013, Fall, Fall TV, premieres, Reign, The CW, The Originals, The Tomorrow People, The Vampire Diaries
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The departure of J. H. Williams III and W. Haden Blackman, the creative team behind Batwoman’s romance with Maggie Sawyer, results in scandal for DC and its fan community.
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Tags: comic books, homosexuality, marriage
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What happens when the forces of unchecked capitalism associated with the mainstreaming of dance music cultures prevent those cultures from protecting or regulating their own?
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Tags: DanceSafe, Diplo, DJ Afrojack, drugs, ecstasy, EDM, Electric Daisy Carnival, Electric Zoo, Kaskade, MDMA, molly, popular music, rave, subculture, TomorrowWorld
Posted in Current Events, Music | Comments Off on Everybody’s Doing Molly? Dance Music Cultures and Drugs
What do we want from a finale? Should it be a spectacular episode that serves as the dramatic peak of the series? Should it like any other episode of the series, only more so? Should it be surprising, shocking, or transformative? Or should it offer closure? For me, the main thing that I’m looking...
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Tags: Breaking Bad, Jason Mittell
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Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Tags: Activision Blizzard, China, Comcast, Dish, Disney, FCC, Grand Theft Auto V, Hopper, Jerry Bruckheimer, NBCUniversal, Rotten Tomatoes, Vivendi
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Antenna contributors review the new fall series from America's #1 network in total viewers and—in a change—the key demographic.
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Tags: 2013, CBS, Fall, Hostages, Mom, premieres, The Crazy Ones, The Millers, We Are Men
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Antenna contributors review the new fall series from the peacock network.
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Tags: Dracula, Fall Premieres, Fall TV, Ironside, NBC, Sean Saves the World, television, The Blacklist, The Michael J. Fox, TV, Welcome to the Family
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Dots are connected and characters suffer, setting up what is sure to be a heartwarming series finale.
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Tags: Breaking Bad, Jason Mittell
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Still recovering from this week's emotional devastation, but Jason Mittell works through the carnage with an extra-long post.
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Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Tags: Aereo, Apple, blackout, CBS, Esquire Network, FilmOn X, iphone, IPO, SiriusXM, Time Warner Cable, Twitter
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