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We now disrupt this broadcast : how cable transformed television and the Internet revolutionized it all /

"[This book tells of] the collision of new technologies, changing business strategies, and innovative storytelling that produced a new golden age of TV"--Amazon.com.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Lotz, Amanda D., 1974- (Author)
Group Author: Landgraf, John (writer of foreword.)
Published: The MIT Press,
Publisher Address: Cambridge, Massachusetts :
Publication Dates: [2018]
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Subjects:
Television broadcasting > United States.
Cable television > United States.
Television > Technological innovations.
Television broadcasting > Technological innovations.
Internet television > United States.
Summary: "[This book tells of] the collision of new technologies, changing business strategies, and innovative storytelling that produced a new golden age of TV"--Amazon.com.
Carrier Form: xviii, 256 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9780262037679
026203767X
Index Number: PN1992
CLC: G229.712
Call Number: G229.712/L885
Contents: 1. Cable transforms television, 1996-2010. Transformation, then revolution -- Cable? -- A death spiral? -- 300 channels, why is nothing on? -- Cable's image problem -- The long road to original cable series -- Cable's first antihero -- OZ locks up cable's new strategy -- Seeds of transformation -- The death of television! It's a golden age of television! -- The Shield: not your father's cop show -- Monk: just distinct enough -- Cable's rising tide doesn't lift all channels -- Cable gets real -- Mad Men brings AMC prestige but loses money -- The Walking Dead redefines cable success and strategy -- Cable goes global -- Watching cable before the internet -- Distinction fails -- Major developments of the transformation: 1996-2016. 2. The internet revolutionizes television, 2010-2016. Seeds of the revolution -- Netflix: diabolical menace or happy accident? -- Over the top of what? -- TV whenever, wherever -- Cable under pressure -- Game of Thrones introduces the global blockbuster -- TV goes indie? -- The end of the early days -- Portals: the beginning of the middle days -- The unbundling continues -- Signs of failure -- A vision of the future -- All we need to know about the future of television.

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