A serious reminder of what’s at stake for the future of entertainment industries and creative labor.

#MediaIndustry

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/how-to-destroy-a-creative-industry-and-how-to-save-it

Smart and pessimistic take on the state of corporate controlled media platforms, and why Apple’s acquisition of a tiny classical music label is almost certainly a harbinger of more evasive cost-cutting, subscriber revenue extraction, and enshittification of music streaming.

#MediaIndustry #Music #Apple

https://open.substack.com/pub/tedgioia/p/nobody-will-tell-you-the-ugly-reason?r=1dh1ua&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post

11月15日(水)-17日(金)に、電子情報技術産業協会 #JEITA が日本最大級のメディア総合イベント “Inter BEE 2023” を開催。千葉市美浜区・幕張メッセとオンラインで。オンラインは11月6日(月)-12月15日(金)に開催。詳細は https://www.inter-bee.com/ に。
#InterBEE2023 #Exhibition #MediaIndustry

This dispute between Charter and Disney could be a major tipping point in the US TV business. The outcome will have ramifications for pretty much every aspect of how television is made, distributed, and consumed.

If Charter and other MVPDs are willing to leave the cable TV biz to focus on broadband, then the inevitable demise of cable TV is coming even faster. The abrupt shift to streaming will have massive impact on sports revenues, creator deals, series development and scheduling, and pretty much everything related to TV.

#Television #MediaIndustry

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/disney-vs-charter-spectrum-explained-1235581770/

Well, this is bleak. A half century of being able to record OTA TV to our own devices and libraries in the US may be quietly coming to an end, thanks to the imminent ATSC 3.0 standard and its DRM.

The current ATSC 1.0 standard, implemented in the "TVmageddon" of 2009, expires in exactly four years. All that anxiety about compatibility and tuners and all that from the late 00s? Yeah, we get to go through that again in 2027.

Coupled with the ongoing fading of linear TV in general, and the failure so far (as shown by the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes, and the general trajectory of the business) in developing a sustainable and equitable business and creative model for streaming, it's starkly difficult to predict what this industry, or even "television," will be in a few years.

#Television #TV #Streaming #MediaIndustry #Hollywood

https://www.techhive.com/article/2009693/nextgen-tv-drm-puts-future-of-the-over-the-air-dvr-in-doubt.html

Lots of data on the collapsing linear TV business and the semi-collapsing streaming TV business in today's free edition of The Ankler's Wakeup newsletter.

#Hollywood #Film #Television #MediaIndustry

https://open.substack.com/pub/theankler/p/how-hollywood-killed-its-own-golden?r=1dh1ua&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

Digital media falls
As BuzzFeed shuts its doors, fate bleeds
Sad news come around

#buzzfeednews #digitalmedia #mediaindustry #haiku #poetry

https://www.vox.com/technology/2023/4/20/23691852/buzzfeed-news-rip-digital-media-industry

I have to wonder what Netflix is going to do with all those DVDs and Blu-Rays if they're not interested in selling the still-viable biz to a very interested company.

#Netflix #DVD #MediaIndustry

https://www.mediaplaynews.com/chicken-soups-bill-rouhana-was-ready-and-willing-to-buy-netflixs-disc-rental-business-but-got-no-response/

The Tyee: The War on Journalists, Part Two (in Analysis) https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2023/04/14/War-Journalists-Part-Two/ #bcnews #TheTyee - via @tyee@mstdn.ca #CanadianJournalismForumonViolenceandTrauma #DavidBeersHarveyStevensonSouthamLecture #OverstoryMedialayoffs #CapitalDailylayoffs #OverstoryMediaGroup #CambridgeAnalytica #mediafundingmodels #DavidBeerslecture #AndrewWilkinson #DavidBeersUVic #RogerBerkowitz #FarhanMohamed #mediaindustry #TeriKanefield #CapitalDaily #HannahArendt

Join WJCT Public Media's Community Advisory Board and help us create meaningful change through public media. Apply now at https://wjct.org/about/cab/! #CommunityInvolvement #MediaIndustry #MakeADifference

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Good explainer of the different varieties of FASTs out there.

#Television #Streaming #MediaIndustry

https://www.nexttv.com/news/why-fast-channels-are-not-the-same-as-cable-networks-wolk

A look back at the culture clash at the 1970 Oscars ceremony. The event and the industry are always at their most interesting when tastes are shifting, as they have been the past several years.

#Film #Hollywood #Oscars #MediaIndustry

https://variety.com/2023/film/awards/x-rated-midnight-cowboy-bob-hope-divided-hollywood-looking-back-at-the-1970-oscars-academy-awards-1235546795/

A great interview with Danny Fisher, the creator and CEO of FilmRise, about how they've built a lucrative streaming empire by acquiring and licensing the extant shows and films none of their competition, but millions of people watch.

#Television #Streaming #AVOD #FilmRise #MediaIndustry

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/filmrise-danny-fisher-interview-streaming-1235316039/

The industry is finally trying to get back to the business of distribution windows that served it well for decades, but it’s going to be a messy realization and transition.

#Television #Streaming #Hollywood #MediaIndustry

https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/snowpiercer-minx-cancellations-tv-reset-1235504910/

More sobering 2023 projections for media companies.

#Television #Film #MediaIndustry #Streaming

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/wall-street-streaming-guidance-2023-1235302958/

A weak spot in my teaching is that I’m way, way more interested in contemporary media industries and systems than I am in contemporary media texts.

People: “Have you seen (hot new film or TV show)?”

Me: “No, but I’m interested in the deal they made for it and if it’ll move the needle for them.”

🤷‍♂️

#Television #Film #MediaIndustry

Great overview of the vexed state of the TV business in the US (but the situation is similar everywhere).

I love this quote in particular, from JB Perette, Warner Bros Discovery's CEO of its Global Streaming and Interactive division:

“The history of the content business has been ‘Produce once and sell it as many times as you can in different windows. What’s happened the last 15 years or so in the streaming business is that the belief became ‘Produce once and monetize once.’ Somehow, in the streaming context, that got translated to ‘Forget windowing, forget exploiting content on multiple platforms.’ The streaming business got into the content-warehousing business. For the economics of content, warehousing is not a good strategy.”

#Television #MediaIndustry

https://variety.com/2023/tv/features/studios-spending-streaming-1235483366/

Here's the 18-49s. I mean, just, holy crap! :blobcateyes:

#Television #MediaIndustry

The linear TV biz in the US continues to sink, and is only kept afloat overwhelmingly by people over 50 (and mostly over 60).

#Television #MediaIndustry

https://www.nexttv.com/news/how-bad-was-it-nbc-lost-7-of-its-primetime-viewers-in-2021-22-and-still-led-linear-chart-of-the-day

Games Rule: Sports events account for all but six of the top 100 telecasts of 2022.

#Television #MediaIndustry

https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Journal/Issues/2023/01/09/Upfront/top-100-telecasts.aspx