Hot List: So Many Curiosities, So Little Time
As TV morphs into a mix of wifi-connected YouTube watching, demographic splintering and subscription churn-y binge-hopping— our beloved industry is turning into a fragment-stein monster.
In this week’s TVREV must read, Alan Wolk coins another keeper term connected to this phenom, “Feudal Media”.
Which has me wondering— who or what can help bring organization and cohesion, other than the operating systems? The battles can range inside their walls, but what’s really to stop Google, Amazon and Walmart from turning the competition for eyeballs and attention into just another product/shelf space/customer journey exercise?
Sports fans on aisle one, next to serial crime bingers, which come in audio and TV versions. There are free giveaways out front where we have single purpose FAST channels designed to get you into our coupon booklets and click-to-buy funnel…. Attention everyone, we have a pick up on aisle three, where popular late night comedy shows and iconic public media offerings are being phased out by the TikTok dancers, podcast commentators, funny animals and (checks notes) congressional orders?
What do the numbers say again?
We digress.
Thankfully, you can enjoy much smarter takes than this in our collection of originals this week, below.
“The world is so f*&ed up but I ain’t ever giving up on it”— Michael Franti.
