This new era of instant, inexplicable attention has also come at a price. In interviews with more than three dozen TikTok creators, many noted that the app’s reach often brings with it relentless demands: from angry commenters, from audience expectations, even from the algorithm itself. - Washington Post
"A just-released study of public radio from National Trust for Local News ... shows that the medium is poised to fill the void left by other local news sources, based on its commitment to spending and hiring newspeople." - Inside Radio
“Is the Times always going to be fundamentally a news company expanding into these ancillary tech products?” she asked. “Or is it trying to morph into something like a tech company with an ancillary news product?” - Semafor
One has to wonder, with the cancellation of an institution like Neighbours, the moving of Days of Our Lives to streaming-only, and fading ratings for such stalwarts as EastEnders. Even telenovelas are starting to lose audiences in Latin America. However, the genre may not be disappearing as much as morphing. - BBC
“Ipsos' survey finds that affluents are spending significant time with audio, especially AM/FM radio. They report listening to the radio for 4 hours a week, an increase of around an hour from the pandemic-impacted years 2020 and 2021. - Inside Radio
The company added 2.4 million new subscribers in the September quarter, after having forecast a net gain of 1 million customers. The subscriber growth followed back-to-back quarters of customer defections that raised questions about Netflix’s ability to expand its user base amid increased competition. - The Wall Street Journal
Some argued that Netflix is leaving hundreds of millions in box-office receipts on the table with its current strategy of showing only select movies in a few hundred theaters for at most a few weeks before streaming them, according to people familiar with the matter. - The Wall Street Journal
"(The company has) added 2.4 million households to its subscriber base after two consecutive quarters of losses. Its reversal of fortunes is especially surprising given the cost of living crisis. ... But Netflix has been attempting to make the platform more enticing — starting with the way it packages its shows." - BBC
They say they're expected to show up for days on end, giving movie-quality line readings from a script on a spreadsheet they've only seen the night before. Lead actors get about $4,000, even for a game that ends up earning $400 million or more. - The Guardian
According to an analysis performed by one of our authors, total direct revenue for the largest 123 news-focused public radio licensees has grown steadily, from roughly $678 million in FY2009 to just under $1 billion in FY2020. - Current
Great institutions, like great literature, are often born from existential angst, as urgent responses to the prevailing horrors of their era. As with TS Eliot's The Waste Land, released in 1922, so with the BBC. - BBC
The idea and hope behind Ulitsa Sezam, which debuted in 1996, five years after the USSR came apart, was to help its young audience learn the values of a free-market, democratic society. The translation from American to Russian culture and mindset, however, was far from smooth. - Smithsonian Magazine
The more important factor in the dwindling of the Academy Awards viewership is that the Academy has been hurting itself by doing its job: honoring the best movies each year. “Best” is famously a matter of taste, but most observers would agree that it doesn’t mean “most successful financially.” - The Daily Beast
"Disney is to release Black Panther: Wakanda Forever in French cinemas next month but has warned that future blockbusters may go straight to its streaming service, Disney+, unless France relaxes film distribution rules" which keep films off streaming services until long after a theatrical run. - The Guardian
For an American, it can be easy to forget how much ideology is packed into the genre — until you watch a film from elsewhere, and are confronted with the cartoonish heroes and villains of other cultures. - The New York Times
