The CEO of Talpa Studios, part of Dutch media conglomerate the Talpa Network, explains it as, ultimately, an issue of language — which is to say, yet another example of the Netherlands' long history of coming up with things to export to a world that doesn't speak Dutch. - The Hollywood Reporter
"The University of North Carolina’s WUNC Raleigh-Durham (91.5) will shutter adult alternative digital radio station WUNC Music at the end of the month. The station, which broadcasts on WUNC-HD2 and wunc.org, was launched in 2016 with the original intent of placing it on a terrestrial radio signal." - Inside Radio
TikTok also went on offense, sharing for the first time internal documents from years of failed negotiations with the federal government that it says show the administration was not operating in good faith. - Washington Post
And that is its credibility. "The reputation of the Post newsroom has been built upon readers’ trust that reporters do not pay sources, much less steal documents, hack computers, or engage in other deceptive news-gathering practices that have been associated with a certain kind of British journalism.” - The Atlantic
“Being calculated isn’t easy. Networks and executive producers have to consider the politics of choosing one writer’s or director’s episode over another, and individual writers and directors can always just submit themselves for the ballot.” - Vulture
Players of Elden Ring died so often when the game first came out that live streams of other players dying over and over became a whole sui generis thing. - The New York Times
Erica Tremblay: "You don’t know if this is just a moment that Hollywood is having that will just go right back. ... What is the new Hollywood? What are the impacts of AI that are coming? All of this is really anxiety-inducing.” - Los Angeles Times (AOL)
The director said, "If screenwriters take the time to watch the movie and read about the process and why we did this film, I can’t imagine they’ll condemn us or me because I’m one of them … I want to do this as a contribution to the cause.” - The Guardian (UK)
“Two years after being evicted by Paris police, a collective of students and film-industry professionals returned to the arthouse cinema they had occupied from 2019 to 2022 on Thursday to reinstall the wheels of a 35mm projector.” - The Guardian (UK)
In many ways, “The Real World” was a great leap forward from the proto-reality ventures of the past. These attempts had ranged from culture-rattling “audience-participation” formats such as “Candid Camera,” which began in the late forties, to the smutty Chuck Barris game shows of the sixties and seventies. - The New Yorker
True, the last one didn't work out so well. Yet "aggregate data from 47 countries shows all the growth in platform news use coming from video or video-led networks such as YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram while legacy networks such as Facebook are becoming less important." - Nieman Lab
"Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Rally intends to privatise public television and radio if it wins an absolute majority in the French parliament in snap elections. … Jordan Bardella, the party president, said selling off the public radio and television services would save more than €3bn, which could fund other policies." - The Guardian
Cord Cutting is growing faster than ever but many cord cutters are moving away from live TV service. In the first quarter of 2024 alone, over 1.2 million people canceled Comcast, Spectrum, and DISH. Now YouTube TV has reportedly lost 150,000 subscribers in the 1st quarter. - CordCutters News
