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

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

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Lotz, Amanda D., 1974- author.
Imprint:	Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2018] ©2018
Description:	xviii, 256 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Television broadcasting -- United States. Cable television -- United States. Television -- Technological innovations. Television broadcasting -- Technological innovations. Internet television -- United States. Cable television. Internet television. Television broadcasting. Television broadcasting -- Technological innovations. Television -- Technological innovations. United States.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11619841

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Other authors / contributors:	Landgraf, John, writer of foreword.
ISBN:	9780262037679 026203767X
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.

Table of Contents:

Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Part 1. Cable Transforms Television, 1996-2010
1. Transformation, Then Revolution
2. Cable?
3. A Death Spiral?
4. 300 Channels, Why Is Nothing On?
5. Cable's Image Problem
6. The Long Road to Original Cable Series
7. Cable's First Antihero
8. OZ Locks Up Cable's New Strategy
9. Seeds of Transformation
10. The Death of Television! It's a Golden Age of Television!
11. The Shield: Not Your Father's Cop Show
12. Monk: Just Distinct Enough
13. Cable's Rising Tide Doesn't Lift All Channels
14. Cable Gets Real
15. Mad Men Brings AMC Prestige but Loses Money
16. The Walking Dead Redefines Cable Success and Strategy
17. Cable Goes Global
18. Watching Cable Before the Internet
19. Distinction Fails
Major Developments of the Transformation: 1996-2016
Part 2. The Internet Revolutionizes Television, 2010-2016
20. Seeds of the Revolution
21. Netflix: Diabolical Menace or Happy Accident?
22. Over the Top of What?
23. TV Whenever, Wherever
24. Cable under Pressure
25. Came of Thrones Introduces the Global Blockbuster
26. TV Goes Indie?
27. The End of the Early Days
28. Portals: The Beginning of the Middle Days
29. The Unbundling Continues
30. Signs of Failure
31. A Vision of the Future
Conclusion: All We Need to Know About the Future of Television ...
Notes
Index