NPR is hardly alone in keeping Car Talk on the air in reruns, even though the Magliozzi brothers (that’s Click and Clack to you) have quit making new shows. Some programs remain on the air even after their hosts have died.
Category: media
Celebrities And Twitter: A Minefield (Though An Amusing One)
“Celebrities have traditionally used handlers and publicists to protect them from fans and from themselves. But Twitter’s ability to connect them directly to their audiences has made it the garbage dump of choice for their every opinion and non sequitur. … But quit as they might, many celebrities leave Twitter only to find they can’t stay away.”
Rotten Tomatoes Suspends Reader Comments On Batman Reviews
“The review aggregation site Rotten Tomatoes said that it had temporarily suspended user comments on reviews across its site after readers reacted angrily to two negative write-ups of that much anticipated Christopher Nolan film and made threatening and derogatory remarks about the critics who wrote them.”
Are Cable TV’s Days Numbered?
“This triple threat adds up to cable TV’s business getting whittled away from every side, and forcing the entire sector to face some hard choices if they want to keep their customers much longer.”
Binge-Viewing Could Change (Almost) Everything About TV Series
“Bingeing breaks habits that have long supported the TV business, built on advertising and syndicated reruns.” What’s more, “besides unspooling a narrative week by week, year by year, writers must also keep in mind fans who take the story ‘in a giant inhalation’.”
The Wild, Weird World Of Haitian Television
“Haitian TV is clamorous and dissonant: instructional announcements about cholera prevention butt up against hedonistic music videos, foreign soap operas and glossy commercials aimed at people who can’t afford to buy much.”
Study: Viewers Increasingly Turning To YouTube For News
“A new study has found that YouTube is emerging as a major platform for news, one to which viewers increasingly turn for eyewitness videos in times of major events and natural disasters.”
Report: Arts Content Declines On BBC
Drama output across the BBC’s television channels fell by 156 hours last year, with arts content also down by 90 hours.
Study Confirms: Watching TV Makes Kids Fat, Slow
“Researchers have found that each extra hour of TV watched per week by two-year-olds increases their waist size by half a millimetre and reduces the distance they can leap from a standing start. That in turn could determine how active they are as adults.”
Does The Movies’ Move To Digital Spell The End For Small Movie Theatres?
“The cost of transitioning to digital is just too expensive for some family-run businesses and, with an increasing number of films available only in a digital format, smaller cinemas could soon be shut out from carrying many blockbuster movies.”