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Web TV Wire- YouTube Starts Charging For Content | Select Subscription Channels Go Live For 99 CentsMay 9, 2013As was rumored for some time, YouTube has started charging for content, with paid channels making their debut. The pilot scheme gives qualifying partners the opportunity to erect paywalls, but will viewers pay in the numbers needed to make this worthwhile? Paid YouTube Channels YouTube has rolled out its first paid content, with a pilot scheme which [...]Dave Parrack
- Google Ups Ante For Original Programming Efforts With First YouTube Comedy WeekApril 26, 2013For one week in May YouTube is going to (try to) be the funniest website on the planet. The Google-owned property already boasts a multitude of funny clips, but YouTube Comedy Week is something altogether more ambitious. This represents the changing face of YouTube; from a site where anything goes to one which brings together [...]Dave Parrack
- Warner Archive Instant Brings Rare, Hard-To-Find Movies & TV Shows Online… For A PriceApril 5, 2013After many years of sticking their heads in the sand and ignoring how the world was changing around them, the big media companies are finally realizing the Internet is here to stay. As are the opportunities it provides to make money from old content repackaged in a shiny new box marked “Streaming.“ Warner Archive Instant Warner Bros. [...]Dave Parrack
- Netflix Gets Social, Finally | Facebook Integration Lands On Streaming Service In USMarch 18, 2013After a lot of lobbying to get the law changed and an equal amount of political wrangling, Netflix has finally brought social sharing features to its streaming service in the U.S. But it’s far from perfect at this early stage of the game. No Sharing Please, We’re American In 1988 a law was passed which prevented the [...]Dave Parrack
- HitBliss Offers Free Movie Rentals For Watching Personalized Ads, But Will It Work?March 8, 2013Unless you actively block or are able to tune them out, you’ll see ads everywhere you go online. HitBliss hopes to use this fact to attract consumers and advertisers to a new way of working together. A Necessary Evil No one really likes advertising, whether it’s online, at the cinema, or merely watching television at home. Instead [...]Dave Parrack
- YouTube Starts Charging For Content | Select Subscription Channels Go Live For 99 CentsMay 9, 2013
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- Complex TV: Serial MelodramaMay 11, 2013So. For those readers who have been following my book-in-progress Complex TV, you may have noticed a lengthy hiatus since I last posted a chapter. Not coincidentally, the last chapter I posted was in August 2012, shortly before returning to the classroom after my sabbatical. Since then, my writing process has stalled considerably, in large […]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=justtv.wordpress.com&blog=890206&post=1100&subd=justtv&ref=&feed=1" width="1" height="1" />Jason Mittell
- Veronica Mars and Exchanges of Value RevisitedMarch 15, 2013Wednesday was one of the more interesting days on Twitter I’ve ever seen, from the snarking about the new Pope (same as the old Pope), to the anger over Google mothballing Reader, to the more local disappointment of Wes Welker signing with the Broncos. But nothing generated more interest, excitement, and conversation amongst the TVitterati […]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=justtv.wordpress.com&blog=890206&post=1094&subd=justtv&ref=&feed=1" width="1" height="1" />Jason Mittell
- Mapping a Pluralistic Field: What Does Television Studies Really Look Like?March 7, 2013I’m spending the next few days in Chicago at the Society for Cinema & Media Studies conference, the annual gathering of scholars that I rarely miss (save for last year’s European stay). Below the fold is the paper I’m presenting Thursday on a panel about the state of television studies as a field – it’s […]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=justtv.wordpress.com&blog=890206&post=1074&subd=justtv&ref=&feed=1" width="1" height="1" />Jason Mittell
- The Scared Is SpreadFebruary 7, 2013I have a video to share with you: If you haven’t seen it, take the eight minutes to watch & enjoy. But there’s a good chance you’ve seen it, as it’s been viewed over 72,000 times (and counting) in the three days it’s been online. It’s been written about on Buzzfeed, Jezebel, CBS News, CBC, Yahoo!, Mashable, and many other […]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=justtv.wordpress.com&blog=890206&post=1071&subd=justtv&ref=&feed=1" width="1" height="1" />Jason Mittell
- Haunted by Seriality: The Formal Uncanny of Mulholland DriveJanuary 3, 2013In my 18 years in academia, I’ve never been to the MLA convention – until now. For those who don’t know, the Modern Language Association is the largest humanities organization, and their annual convention is an iconic event, known as a massive academic job meat market and an object of mockery in the press for […]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=justtv.wordpress.com&blog=890206&post=1062&subd=justtv&ref=&feed=1" width="1" height="1" />Jason Mittell
- Complex TV: Serial MelodramaMay 11, 2013
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