The Antenna-Sounding Out! ongoing series From Mercury to Mars: Orson Welles on Radio after 75 Years continues with a new post from Debra Rae Cohen on the inaugural broadcast of the original Mercury series, Welles’s fascinating version of Bram Stoker’s Dracula.
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Tags: Bram Stoker, CBS, Dracula, Mercury Theater on the Air, Orson Welles, radio, The Shadow
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Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Tags: Al Jazeera, Breaking Bad, CBS, Hotfile, Lawrence Lessig, NFL, Robin Thicke, SiriusXM, Time Warner
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Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Tags: CBS, China, CNN, Cord-cutting, EA, GOP, Hillary Clinton, Jeff Bezos, MPAA, NBC, NCAA, PlayStation, Sony, Time Warner Cable, Viacom, Washington Post
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In Antenna's first post in the From Mercury to Mars: Orson Welles on Radio after 75 Years collaborative series with Sounding Out!, Eleanor Patterson explores how it is that we are still listening to the 1938 radio broadcast of "War of the Worlds" 75 years later, and in what ways its discursive and material...
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Tags: CBS, fandom, Futurama, Longines Symphonette Society, Mercury Theater on the Air, Metacom, old time radio, Orson Welles, radio, Radio Days, YouTube
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Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Tags: Aereo, Apple, CBS, e-book, Greece, Hulu, Legendary, Microsoft, rolling stone, Time Warner, Time Warner Cable, Warner Bros.
Posted in Columns, Current Events, Industry, What Are You Missing? | Comments Off on What Are You Missing? July 8 – July 21
Ten media news items that you might have missed recently.
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Tags: A&E, ABC, Academy Awards, Billboard, Cablevision, CBS, copyright, DirecTV, Dish Network, Facebook, Google, Hollywood, independent film, Kickstarter, music, piracy, PlayStation, Sony, television, Time Warner Cable, Viacom, visual effects, YouTube
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Ten media news items you might have missed recently.
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Tags: advertising, Amazon, AOL, Apple, Barnes and Noble, CBS, Dell Inc, Dreamworks, Grammy Awards, NBC, Netflix, social media, Super Bowl, television, Virgin Media, Xbox
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Antenna contributors consider the 2012 Fall Premieres from CBS.
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Tags: 2012, CBS, Elementary, Fall, Made in Jersey, Partners, Premiere Week, television, TV, Vegas
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Who gets their own show, and what can we expect, for the 2012-2013 season?
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Tags: ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC, The CW, upfronts
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Trend pieces positing a "mancession" on network television schedules this fall overestimated the phenomenon.
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Tags: ABC, broadcast, cable networks, CBS, masculinity, men, television, tim allen
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It's premiere week! Check back regularly for our contributors thoughts on all the new CBS shows! Responses so far: 2 Broke Girls, Unforgettable, Person of Interest and A Gifted Man.
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Tags: 2 Broke Girls, A Gifted Man, CBS, Person of Interest, Premiere Week, television, Unforgettable
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What happened at last week's network upfronts, and what does it say about American television?
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Tags: ABC, cancelations, CBS, FOX, NBC, new shows, renewals, The CW, upfronts
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What I find frustrating about the show is not simply that it ends up Othering the world, but that it could be so much better. It’s like a B student who writes occasionally brilliant sentences, yet who isn’t trying hard enough.
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Tags: Amazing Race, CBS, globalization, Othering, Phil, reality television, Reality TV, Representation
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Though not the most popular or influential entry in the genre, Kid Nation appropriately offers an elementary school primer both on the conventions of reality competitions and their negotiation of social structures taken for granted in the "real" world.
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Tags: CBS, child labor, class, Kid Nation, reality television
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CBS's The Good Wife doesn't shy away from the challenges its protagonist faces in negotiating her adult life, something more than we tend to expect to see on television, where story lines often trade in emotionally false dichotomies.
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Tags: CBS, melodrama, motherhood, sexuality, the good wife
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