{"id":692,"date":"2013-07-21T09:08:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-21T16:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2013\/07\/cable-tv-and-the-niche-ing-of-america.html"},"modified":"2013-07-21T09:08:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-21T16:08:00","slug":"cable-tv-and-the-niche-ing-of-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2013\/07\/cable-tv-and-the-niche-ing-of-america.html","title":{"rendered":"Cable TV and the Niche-ing of America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TODAY I have a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2013\/07\/21\/cable_tv_to_the_rescue_will_the_quality_subscription_model_work_for_books_movies_music\/\">story<\/a> in Salon looking at the golden age of cable TV post-<i>Sopranos<\/i>, and contrasting this with the economic\/technological forces in the culture right now.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-5j6cjg8jDqg\/UewVX0Wp3dI\/AAAAAAAACVk\/XRsAfrXwxi0\/s1600\/Mad_Men_Season_5,_Promotional_Poster.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"320\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-5j6cjg8jDqg\/UewVX0Wp3dI\/AAAAAAAACVk\/XRsAfrXwxi0\/s320\/Mad_Men_Season_5,_Promotional_Poster.jpg\" width=\"216\"><\/a>And I ask: If HBO, or AMC, can find a profitable <i>quality<\/i> niche &#8212; and stay in business &#8212; can a jazz club? A book publisher? Theater company? I also look at the world of indie rock labels.<\/p>\n<p>I speak to the authors of two new books, Brett Martin, of television chronicle <i>Difficult Men<\/i>, and producer Lynda Obst, of <i>Sleepless in Hollywood<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TODAY I have a story in Salon looking at the golden age of cable TV post-Sopranos, and contrasting this with the economic\/technological forces in the culture right now. And I ask: If HBO, or AMC, can find a profitable quality niche &#8212; and stay in business &#8212; can a jazz club? A book publisher? Theater [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[39,76,40,75,38,77],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-692","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-creative-class","7":"category-film","8":"category-indie","9":"category-mad-men","10":"category-rock-music","11":"category-television","12":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}