From Networks to Netflix
A Guide to Changing Channels
1st Edition
Published on 9. January 2018
Book
Paperback/Softback
430 pages
978-1-138-99851-3 (ISBN)
Description
Even as the television industry experiences significant transformation and disruption in the face of streaming and online delivery, the television channel itself persists. If anything, the television channel landscape has become more complex to navigate as viewers can now choose between broadcast, cable, streaming, and premium services across a host of different platforms and devices. From Networks to Netflix provides an authoritative answer to that navigational need, helping students, instructors, and scholars understand these industrial changes through the lens of the channel. Through examination of emerging services like Hulu and Amazon Prime Video, investigation of YouTube channels and cable outlets like Freeform and Comedy Central, and critiques of broadcast giants like ABC and PBS, this book offers a concrete, tangible means of exploring the foundations of a changing industry.
Reviews / Votes
"If you thought that the TV channel was dead, then From Networks to Netflix will prove you wrong. Derek Johnson has gathered together an impressive range of cutting edge scholarship that demonstrates that channels not only matter, but also are essential tools for understanding the current and future development of television." -Catherine Johnson, University of Nottingham, UK"From Networks to Netflix is essential reading for anyone interested in the future of television. More than carefully researched channel biographies, the essays in this book together constitute an original retheorization of television's organizational forms - and a reflection on the aggregation, branding, and formatting of media more generally." -Ramon Lobato, RMIT University, Australia
"From Networks to Netflix challenges readers to rethink how we approach legacy channels and new platforms. Johnson has assembled a formidable array of scholars, who, in pleasurable prose, chronicle and analyze industrial strategies, curatorial practices, distribution, and viewership habits. Covering 'old,' new, and emergent channels, this collection deftly oscillates between networks and platforms." -Ben Aslinger, Bentley University, USA
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 254 mm
Width: 178 mm
Weight
775 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-138-99851-3 (9781138998513)
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Person
Derek Johnson is Associate Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Wisconsin - Madison. He is the author of Media Franchising: Creative License and Collaboration in the Culture Industries, as well as the co-editor of A Companion to Media Authorship, Making Media Work: Cultures of Management in the Entertainment Industries, and the forthcoming Point of Sale: Analyzing Media Retail.
Content
Introduction/Channel Listings
Channel 1 - Pop: Television Guides and Recommendations in a Changing Channel Landscape
Derek Johnson
Broadcast Stations and Networks
Channel 2 - ABC: Crisis, Risk, and the Logics of Change
Kristen J. Warner
Channel 3 - The CW: Media Conglomerates in Partnership
Caryn Murphy
Channel 4 - Rede Globo: Global Expansions and Cross-Media Extensions in the Digital Era
Courtney Brannon Donoghue
Channel 5 - PBS: Crowdsourcing Culture Since 1969
Michele Hilmes
Channel 6 - Alabama Public Television Network: Local Stations and Struggles Over Collective Identity
Allison Perlman
Channel 7 - DR: License Fees, Platform Neutrality and Public Service Obligation
Hanne Bruun
Channel 8 - MeTV: Old-Time TV's Last Stand?
Derek Kompare
Cable and Satellite Services
Channel 9 - WGN America: From Chicago to Cable's Very Own
Chris Becker
Channel 10 - ESPN: Live Sports, Documentary Prestige, and On-Demand Culture
Travis Vogan
Channel 11 - NBC Sports Network: Building Elite Audiences from Broadcast Rights
Deborah L. Jaramillo
Channel 12 - The Weather Channel: Genre, Trust, and Unscripted Television in an Age of Apps
Jon Kraszewski
Channel 13 - TLC: Food, Fatness, and Spectacular Relatability
Melissa Zimdars
Channel 14 - MTV: #Prosocial Television
Laurie Ouellette
Channel 15 - A&E: From Art to Vice in the Managed Channel Portfolio
David Craig and Derek Johnson
Channel 16 - Spike TV: The Impossibility of Television for Men
Amanda D. Lotz
Channel 17 - Comedy Central: Transgressive Femininities and Reaffirmed Masculinities Nick Marx
Channel 18 - Nick Jr.: Co-Viewing and the Limits of Dayparts
Erin Copple Smith
Channel 19 - Disney Junior: Imagining Industrial Intertextuality
Kyra Hunting and Jonathan Gray
Channel 20 - Disney XD: Boyhood and the Racial Politics of Market Segmentation
Christopher Chavez
Channel 21 - Freeform: Shaking off the Family Brand within a Conglomerate Family
Barbara Selznick
Channel 22 - El Rey: Latino Indie Auteur as Channel Identity
Alisa Perren
Streaming Channels
Channel 23 - Awesomeness TV: Talent Management and Merchandising on Multi-Channel Networks
Avi Santo
Channel 24 - ISAtv: YouTube and the Branding of Asian America
Lori Kido Lopez
Channel 25 - East India Comedy: Channeling the Public Sphere in Online Satire
Subin Paul
Channel 26 - Twitter: Channels in the Stream
James Bennett and Niki Strange
Channel 27 - Twitch.TV: Tele-visualizing the Arcade
Matthew Thomas Payne
Channel 28 - BBC Three: Youth Television and Platform Neutral Public Broadcasting
Faye Woods
Channel 29 - Open TV: The Development Process
Aymar Jean Christian
Premium Television
Channel 30 - Netflix: Streaming Channel Brands as Global Meaning Systems
Timothy Havens
Channel 31 - Hulu: Geoblocking National TV in an On-demand Era
Evan Elkins
Channel 32 - iQiyi: China's Internet Tigers Take Television
Michael Curtin and Yongli Li
Channel 33 - Amazon Prime Video: Where Information is Entertainment
Karen Petruska
Channel 34 - Playboy TV: Contradictions, Confusion, and Post-Network Pornography
Peter Alilunas
Channel 35 - Starz: Distinction, Value, and Fandom in Non-Linear Premium TV
Myles McNutt
Channel 36 - WWE Network: The Disruption of Over-The-Top Distribution
Cory Barker and Andrew Zolides
Channel 37 - CBS All Access: To Boldly Franchise Where No One Has Subscribed Before
Derek Johnson
Channel 1 - Pop: Television Guides and Recommendations in a Changing Channel Landscape
Derek Johnson
Broadcast Stations and Networks
Channel 2 - ABC: Crisis, Risk, and the Logics of Change
Kristen J. Warner
Channel 3 - The CW: Media Conglomerates in Partnership
Caryn Murphy
Channel 4 - Rede Globo: Global Expansions and Cross-Media Extensions in the Digital Era
Courtney Brannon Donoghue
Channel 5 - PBS: Crowdsourcing Culture Since 1969
Michele Hilmes
Channel 6 - Alabama Public Television Network: Local Stations and Struggles Over Collective Identity
Allison Perlman
Channel 7 - DR: License Fees, Platform Neutrality and Public Service Obligation
Hanne Bruun
Channel 8 - MeTV: Old-Time TV's Last Stand?
Derek Kompare
Cable and Satellite Services
Channel 9 - WGN America: From Chicago to Cable's Very Own
Chris Becker
Channel 10 - ESPN: Live Sports, Documentary Prestige, and On-Demand Culture
Travis Vogan
Channel 11 - NBC Sports Network: Building Elite Audiences from Broadcast Rights
Deborah L. Jaramillo
Channel 12 - The Weather Channel: Genre, Trust, and Unscripted Television in an Age of Apps
Jon Kraszewski
Channel 13 - TLC: Food, Fatness, and Spectacular Relatability
Melissa Zimdars
Channel 14 - MTV: #Prosocial Television
Laurie Ouellette
Channel 15 - A&E: From Art to Vice in the Managed Channel Portfolio
David Craig and Derek Johnson
Channel 16 - Spike TV: The Impossibility of Television for Men
Amanda D. Lotz
Channel 17 - Comedy Central: Transgressive Femininities and Reaffirmed Masculinities Nick Marx
Channel 18 - Nick Jr.: Co-Viewing and the Limits of Dayparts
Erin Copple Smith
Channel 19 - Disney Junior: Imagining Industrial Intertextuality
Kyra Hunting and Jonathan Gray
Channel 20 - Disney XD: Boyhood and the Racial Politics of Market Segmentation
Christopher Chavez
Channel 21 - Freeform: Shaking off the Family Brand within a Conglomerate Family
Barbara Selznick
Channel 22 - El Rey: Latino Indie Auteur as Channel Identity
Alisa Perren
Streaming Channels
Channel 23 - Awesomeness TV: Talent Management and Merchandising on Multi-Channel Networks
Avi Santo
Channel 24 - ISAtv: YouTube and the Branding of Asian America
Lori Kido Lopez
Channel 25 - East India Comedy: Channeling the Public Sphere in Online Satire
Subin Paul
Channel 26 - Twitter: Channels in the Stream
James Bennett and Niki Strange
Channel 27 - Twitch.TV: Tele-visualizing the Arcade
Matthew Thomas Payne
Channel 28 - BBC Three: Youth Television and Platform Neutral Public Broadcasting
Faye Woods
Channel 29 - Open TV: The Development Process
Aymar Jean Christian
Premium Television
Channel 30 - Netflix: Streaming Channel Brands as Global Meaning Systems
Timothy Havens
Channel 31 - Hulu: Geoblocking National TV in an On-demand Era
Evan Elkins
Channel 32 - iQiyi: China's Internet Tigers Take Television
Michael Curtin and Yongli Li
Channel 33 - Amazon Prime Video: Where Information is Entertainment
Karen Petruska
Channel 34 - Playboy TV: Contradictions, Confusion, and Post-Network Pornography
Peter Alilunas
Channel 35 - Starz: Distinction, Value, and Fandom in Non-Linear Premium TV
Myles McNutt
Channel 36 - WWE Network: The Disruption of Over-The-Top Distribution
Cory Barker and Andrew Zolides
Channel 37 - CBS All Access: To Boldly Franchise Where No One Has Subscribed Before
Derek Johnson