Will anyone join the list this year? (And can anyone ever top Merrit Wever’s 2013 acceptance speech?) – Los Angeles Times
Category: media
Hollywood Is Glum, But The Emmys Show Must Go On
A lot of new shows are constantly churning through the pipeline, Netflix and Amazon are awash in television bucks, and old sitcoms are doing nine-figure streaming deals because for some reason, the kids these days love Friends and Seinfeld. But behind the scenes? Authors and agents are suing each other, some agents fled town for the weekend, and even the parties were cancelled, y’all. Can Hollywood recover? – The New York Times
BBC To Move More Staff Out Of London
“We’ve made enormous strides. A decade ago, a third of the BBC was based outside London and two-thirds was in London. Today, that balance is 50/50. We’ve moved from less than 10% of our network TV programmes produced in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland to 20%. – The Guardian
NPR Is Pulling In Serious Money From Podcasts
“NPR is projecting that podcast sponsorship revenues will surpass revenues from broadcast sponsorships next year for the first time. … The network has budgeted about $55 million in corporate sponsorship revenues from podcasts in fiscal year 2020.” NPR CFO Deborah Cowan described podcasts as “[a] huge return on investment for us and a major growth engine for our business.” – Current
Can Ira Glass Convince Public Radio Non-Pledgers To Pledge $1 A Month?
The host and creator of This American Life has recorded five spots urging people to become donors to their public radio stations at about the lowest possible rate. Why? Basically, for the same reason that iTunes priced tracks at 99 cents. – Current
Audiences Prefer Actors With Disabilities To Play Characters With Disabilities: Study
“Findings from the Ruderman Family Foundation’s just released effort, Disability Inclusion in Movies and Television, show that … 55% would like to see characters with disabilities portrayed authentically. … [The study also found that] viewers rank ‘diversity’ in the top five most valuable characteristics for content when disability is included in the definition.” – Los Angeles Times
It’s Big: eSports Gets Its Own TV Network
“You have this $150 billion-a-year industry that has no TV network. We are a universal network — that means we will be distributed and consumed anywhere our audience is consuming gaming content.” – CBC
Below The Line: Tales From The Behind-The-Scenes Pros Of TV And Film
“In this post and the series of corresponding profession-specific stories we’ve published, we’re going to be giving proper credit to those people whose work truly brings entertainment to life” — Foley artists, costume designers, visual effects artists, music supervisors, food stylists, location scouts, prop masters, animal trainers, stunt performers, and caterers. – Vulture
Turkey’s Television Epics Are Conquering The World
“Thanks to international sales and global viewership, Turkey is second only to the US in worldwide TV distribution – finding huge audiences in Russia, China, Korea and Latin America.” Reporter Fatima Bhutto talks to people at the center of the Turkish TV industry about why these series appeal to worldwide audiences (and why the English-language market is an exception) and how the shows were a huge hit in the Arab world until, one day, they were pulled off the air. – The Guardian
Despite Death Threats And Rocket Attacks, She Runs A Feminist Radio Station In Afghanistan
Sediqa Sherzai founded Radio Roshani in Kunduz in 2008. The Taliban fired rockets at the station the next year. In 2015 they stole the station’s equipment and planted mines in the building. Nevertheless, she persists. – BBC