Amanda and Alex dive deep into the challenges facing the recording industry by working through analysis by Liam Boluk.
Liam Boluk, "Less Money, Mo' Music & Lots of Problems: A Look at the Music Biz," ReDEF, Jul. 28, 2015
Amanda and Alex dive deep into the challenges facing the recording industry by working through analysis by Liam Boluk.
Liam Boluk, "Less Money, Mo' Music & Lots of Problems: A Look at the Music Biz," ReDEF, Jul. 28, 2015
Alex and Amanda talk about the thought leadership offered by current television execs including John Landgraf, Ted Sarandos, Charlie Collier, and Les Moonves that suggests future directions for television. Discussion draws from these interviews and articles:
Charlie Collier, The Waltons to Walter White: The Rise of Immersive Content, ReDEF, Jan. 26. 2016
Alan Sepinwall, Ted Talk: State of the Netflix Union Discussion with Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos, HitFix, Jan 26, 2016
Lacey Rose and Marissa Guthrie, FX Chief John Landgraf on Content Bubble: This is Simply Too Much Television, The Hollywood Reporter, Aug. 7, 2015
Oriana Schwindt, Here's Why CBS Is the Future of Television No One Saw Coming (Except Les Moonves) International Business Times, Feb. 12, 2016
A look at the return of "old" media as television networks push audiences to live viewing with musicals and the Super Bowl and Adele brings the album back with a vengeance.
From new broadband distributed television portals to Netflix and Amazon buying films at Sundance, we explore some of the ways digital distribution is changing how we watch media.
News and more news about Netflix--international expansion and ratings according to Symphony. What is the Television Critics Association Tour? Why does it exist?
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You’ve already heard what happened this week, but we take the next steps of explaining why it matters and why you should care. This isn’t a place of pontificating and empty predictions, but of getting to the meat of what is going on in media today and the implications for media businesses and media consumers. Knowledgeable outsiders, Alex, a journalist, and Amanda, a professor, consider emerging changes without a stake in the disruptions to explore why the transformative shifts experienced by media today matter to you.
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Amanda Lotz is a professor of media studies at the University of Michigan and author of several books about media and media industries including The Television Will Be Revolutionized and Portals: A Treatise on Internet-Distributed Television.
Alex Intner is a journalist who specializes in reporting on the arts and media industries. You can find his writing in The Michigan Daily, where he was an arts writer and web developer.