Hosted by Kim Masters, Saturdays on KCRW
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Media Business Matters with Amanda Lotz and Alex Intner
(In addition to KCRW's website you can find The Business on iTunes, Spotify and Google Play: Millions of Screens is also on all the podcasting apps, besides Spotify; same goes for Matt Belloni's The Town)
Bookmark the TVAfterTV Twitter Feed
Bookmark the TVAfterTV Twitter Feed
IndieWire's Millions of Screens; Hosted by Libby Hill, Ben Travers & Leo Garcia.
(The episodes from Oct. 30, Nov. 6 and Nov. 13 2020 each deal with one of the streaming services - AppleTV+, HBO Max, Disney+)
(The episodes from Oct. 30, Nov. 6 and Nov. 13 2020 each deal with one of the streaming services - AppleTV+, HBO Max, Disney+)
nb. Millions of Screens has been off the "air" since October 2021
Bonus Podcast:
On The Media; Hosted by Brooke Gladstone & Bob Garfield, Fridays on WNYC
As we said in class, please subscribe to The Business, The Town and Lucas Shaw's Screentime from Bloomberg newsletter and listen/read to new episodes/newsletters regularly throughout the semester. Episodes are 30 minutes each so easily digestible. In any case definitely do listen to the opening 'News Banter' section in The Business but stay on for the in depth interviews with industry people (producers, showrunners, directors, writers, media executives, etc.). This is a chance to hear talk about film and television that goes beyond the gossip platitudes or faux-criticism that we usually get about the media. Host Kim Masters asks the right questions in regards to deals, arrangements, financing, etc. and Amanda Lotz and her co-host dig deep into the industrial and infrastructural transformations of the media industries on the Media Business Matters limited podcast.
You are all responsible to listen to the entire 'season' of the LAND OF THE GIANTS: THE NETFLIX EFFECT podcast which you can find on basically all of the podcasting apps and websites. The link above will provide you with all the different links to the various platforms. Otherwise find it on Spotify:
Make sure you listen to these latest yearly round ups from The Business and The Town:
from The Business:
from The Town:
Some Megabanters from previous years:
Important recent episode:
Megabanter 2022: Wall St. ditches streaming, Disney undergoes a shakeup
Megabanter 2021: Streaming wars get real, legacy studios at risk
Looking ahead to Hollywood in 2022
+ Listen to these two megabanters from Jan. 7 and Jan. 14 2022. The cover HBO Max and Disney+ strategies in the so-called 'streaming wars:
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In 2020 The Business had a news banter on the Nielsen 2020 Minutes Streamed Report details (articles below; it's old numbers but they're indicative of what the industry is interested in) --which is better than what the streamers themselves report on their most watched programs. As you can imagine a lot is riding on these numbers.
These are some articles as background to that discussion:
TOPS OF 2020: NIELSEN STREAMING UNWRAPPED
TOPS OF 2020: TELEVISION
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Hollywood Reporter analysis of the numbers: Here, Here and Here. And here AS well.
If you're interested in labor relations and labor conflict inside the industry (ie- the writers and directors and actors on strike --particularly in relation to the effects of AI give a listen to this podcast that covered the strikes as they were ongoing. Find that here.
On Media Business Matters listen to the Media Business Year in Review 2019 episode as well as the episodes on:
-Open TV and the Creative Possibilities of Internet-Distributed Television
-The Business of YouTube and Social Media Entertainment
plus the in-depth interview with Amanda Lotz herself about her new book We Now Disrupt This Broadcast.
from The Spin-Off:
Summer 2015's TCA's: Streaming Media Boom & Networks as Brands (from Aug. 13, 2015)
Fall TV Fails to Excite; New Faces in Late Night (from Oct. 1, 2015)
TV Development Trends and Behind-the-Scenes Drama (from Oct. 28, 2015)
The Evolution of Streaming and a Late Night Check-In (from Nov. 17, 2015)
The Year That Was Peak TV, Tackling Tough Social Issues (from Dec. 23, 2015)
Cord Cobblers and What TV Can Learn from 'Making a Murderer' (from Jan. 20, 2016)
The Year in Television (from Dec. 21, 2016).
As a bonus check out some of the bloggers mentioned in this Complex article:
The 25 Best TV Bloggers.
-Open TV and the Creative Possibilities of Internet-Distributed Television
-The Business of YouTube and Social Media Entertainment
plus the in-depth interview with Amanda Lotz herself about her new book We Now Disrupt This Broadcast.
from The Spin-Off:
Summer 2015's TCA's: Streaming Media Boom & Networks as Brands (from Aug. 13, 2015)
Fall TV Fails to Excite; New Faces in Late Night (from Oct. 1, 2015)
TV Development Trends and Behind-the-Scenes Drama (from Oct. 28, 2015)
The Evolution of Streaming and a Late Night Check-In (from Nov. 17, 2015)
The Year That Was Peak TV, Tackling Tough Social Issues (from Dec. 23, 2015)
Cord Cobblers and What TV Can Learn from 'Making a Murderer' (from Jan. 20, 2016)
The Year in Television (from Dec. 21, 2016).
As a bonus check out some of the bloggers mentioned in this Complex article:
The 25 Best TV Bloggers.
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