Post-network era
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The post-network era, also known as the post-broadcast era,
For Amanda D. Lotz, the post-network era has been defined by five C's: "choice, control, convenience, customization, and community".[3] These five concepts, which have defined the post-network era, all relate to the ways in which viewers have greater access to a wider array of content which can be consumed on their own terms. The concept comes from the field of Television studies, and has been used by various academics to discuss numerous different topics.[4][5][6] The concept has been endorsed by media scholar Henry Jenkins, co-director of the Media Industries Project Michael Curtin, and American Studies, and Film and Media professor Jason Mittell.[7][8]
Major Developments
Vast modifications were made to the way in which the television industry was operated following the earlier
Timeshifting Technologies
The development of technologies with timeshifting abilities such as the
Digitization of Content
The increasing digitization of content has presented viewers with an increasing level of access to high quality televisual content on DVD and online.[10] This has fostered the development of new portable methods of delivering media that help to bring television to spaces outside of the home.[11] Consequently, multiple new revenue streams have emerged as television networks are able to sell shows through online storefronts like iTunes. The DVD market, too, has become a financially viable place to extract additional profits from television shows post-broadcast.[10] In the case of animated sitcom Family Guy, this even led to the show's renewal in 2005 due to strong DVD sales, four years after its initial cancellation.
Changes to Advertising
In order to reap the benefits of advertising in an era where television programs are no longer necessarily watched first-run on network television station, advertisers have innovated, using
Web 2.0 Technologies
A major aspect of the post-network era has been the development of new technologies that change the ways in which television is consumed and distributed. These technological changes have come about with the invention of the
Content in the Post-Network Era
One major development in the post-network era has been a fragmented cable network system, with each network presenting contents to cater to specific target audiences rather than a homogeneous mass audience. Magazines had done this for similar reasons a century earlier. As consumers began to watch television programs on tablets and cell phones in their own time, niche channels emerged from the expansion of cable television networks, advertising became integrated into television shows rather than ad-breaks, and people were no longer tied to a 24-week first-run broadcast cycle.
Producers responded to changing consumption patterns by changing the ways in which they produce television content, which resulted in the creation of shows like
See also
- History of television
- 1990s in television
- 2000s in television
- 2010s in television
- 2020s in television
- Streaming television
References
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- ^ Lotz, Amanda D. (2007) "The Television Will Be Revolutionized". New York, NY: New York University Press
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- ISBN 978-0814731987.
- ^ Bartels, Larry M.; Rahn, Wendy M. (2000). Political attitudes in the post-network era (PDF). Washington: Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association.
- ISBN 978-0415996693.
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- ISBN 9780814752203.
- ISBN 978-1479865253.
- ^ ISBN 978-1479865253.
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Further reading
- Gray, Jonathan, Lotz, Amanda D. (2011) "Television Studies". Cambridge, UK: Polity Press
- Lotz, Amanda D. (2006) "Redesigning Women: Television after the Network Era (Feminist Studies and Media Culture)". Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press.
- Lotz, Amanda D. (2007) "The Television Will Be Revolutionized". New York, NY: New York University Press.
- Lotz, Amanda D. (Ed.) (2009) "Beyond prime time : television programming in the post-network era". New York, NY: Routledge.
- Lotz, Amanda D. (2014) "Cable Guys: Television and Masculinities in the 21st Century". New York, NY: New York University Press.