Category Archives: media

Netflix’s Choice and the Return of Louis B. Mayer

Posted on December 7, 2010 by

The usually reliable Edward Jay Epstein has a new column up at the Wrap detailing the transition Netflix is undergoing. Netflix currently spends around $500 million a year in postage mailing out DVDs and receiving them back. This also requires … Continue reading →

Posted in economics, incentives, media, more, netflix, niche | 6 Comments

Game Changer

Posted on July 30, 2009 by

Two items in the Wall Street Journal on Wednesday, July 29, 2009 together portend a big change in the way entertainment, both movies and “serial entertainment” aka series, are produced, distributed, and watched by US and global consumers. Together they … Continue reading →

Posted in culture, hollywood, media, more, technology | 8 Comments

Failure of the Media Part Three: NBC and the End of the Brandon Tartikoff Strategy

Posted on July 7, 2009 by

In my post Failure of the Media Part One I discussed how demographic changes, mostly the lack of young Whites, made the youth-oriented Indie 103.1 FM a failure, compared to the older, stodgier, but more profitable AM talk radio, oriented … Continue reading →

Posted in culture, demographics, media, men, more, television, women | 78 Comments

Failure of the Media Part Two: The Lingering Death of the LA Times

Posted on June 9, 2009 by

By all accounts the LA Times should be doing well. Absent the leverage demands of the parent company Tribune Media, the potential readership of the LA Times should be large. After all, the US Census Bureau shows 9.8 million people … Continue reading →

Posted in demographics, la, liberals, media, more, newspapers, publishing | 14 Comments

Media Failure Part One: Radio and the Death of Indie 103.1 FM

Posted on May 30, 2009 by

A lot of talk in the blogosphere and in newspapers and magazines has been about the incipient failure of newspapers. The Christian Science Monitor has gone online only. The same has happened with the Seattle Post Intelligencer and other papers … Continue reading →

Posted in culture, demographics, media, more, radio | 22 Comments