In the final installment of this series on podcaster Bob Frantz and his venture Boneyard Industries, the frustration that comes with advertising and getting local listeners on board is explored.
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The video “Parable” by Chaila is a fascinating example of what the crossover of fandom and political engagement can achieve.
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TBS’ agreement to air new episodes of Cougar Town may signal the next network to employ the "Fox Formula" whereby market share is built courting black viewership, only to be discarded once a critical mass of mainstream viewership is attained.
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Is Ridley Scott’s Prometheus a half-baked pile of philosophical babble, or is it more seductively an early harbinger of a kind of post-television cinematic narrative—filmmaking in the age of television?
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The various people involved in Little Mosque’s production were positioned differently in the communities between which they were mediating, and as a consequence, the factors that influenced their creative decisions differed, too.
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True to form, this year’s Tony Awards laid bare its undying need to appear youthful, popular, and hip, all the while marginalizing the spirit of American theatre and those who participate in it. The broadcast looked less like a celebration of New York theatre and more like the Oscars, Emmys, and Grammys rolled into...
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Kyle Conway begins a multi-part series exploring the production of Little Mosque on the Prairie, a CBC sitcom set to debut in the U.S. on Hulu this month.
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Upon being released after his home station embraced a format change, radio personality Adam Carolla responded by creating a "network" of podcasts he could use to sell advertisers listeners in aggregate. Bob Frantz quickly looked to this strategy as a way to continue an over-the-mic career after the death of a ten-year radio career...
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What is a “television festival”? What might such an event look like? The answers emerged at the ATX Television Festival, held in downtown Austin, TX from June 1st to 3rd.
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GCB represents ABC's recent attempt to incorporate camp aesthetics into a prime-time commodity, a gamble that ultimately was too risky for the network.
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The broadcast networks respond to the introduction of Dish TV's new DVR, the Hopper, with outrage and litigation.
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The coordinating editors of Velvet Light Trap's forthcoming issue are looking for submissions that investigate educational, industrial, and institutional media from a range of scholarly perspectives.
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What I find surprising about gaming M2AFs is how often they quickly turn intimate, even if the only connection between sender and receivers is an ad hoc one established to gain an achievement. It is not uncommon to get a highly personal message of one kind or another.
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While other countries are considering changes to adapt their media laws for convergence, Australia has been a world leader in commissioning major studies that address these challenges head on.
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Is there any such thing as local digital media? Looking at the case of local podcasts, Tim Anderson argues that people indeed do, and always have, inscribed the local in their digital media creations.
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There is nothing necessarily new about a character's surprising return, but the particular attention to the absent mother taps into a current and contentious discourse of motherhood: attachment parenting.
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