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Kim Kardashian’s IMDB bio Jon C. Hopwood is a legend. (Via Chelfyn.)
NEVER FORGOTTEN
Peking out of my tank, what do I see? According to one of our trading partners, this didn’t happen on June 4, 1989.
It’s called cognitive dissonance. The term was coined in 1956 by psychologist Leon Festinger who infiltrated a UFO cult that was expecting the end of the world on December 21, 1954. When that date passed without the world ending, the cult didn’t disband but instead they “realised” they had been spared in order to spread their teachings to others, a justification that resolved the conflict between their previous expectations and reality.
John Merakovsky: ‘Why Dr House would have made an excellent marketer’, Campaign Asia-Pacific, May 10, 2012
Question: why do doomsayers pick December 21?
The Heart and Soul of Eric Morecambe The whole late 1990s’ BBC documentary on Eric Morecambe’s life on YouTube.
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TV networks’ dominance of the delivery of TV content is rapidly collapsing, as alternatives expand and people build up their libraries:
Primetime Mystery: Where Did All the TV Viewers Go? - Derek Thompson via The Atlantic
The networks’ share of primetime TV audience (dark blue in the graph below [above in this post]) has declined from 45% in 1985 to 25% in 2009. Basic cable ate the networks’ lunch post-dinner audience, and now it’s technology’s turn gobble up what’s left.
Even with this long trend line (and despite the fact that viewers often unplug in the spring), there is a sense that we’ve reached a tipping point thanks to what Gaspin calls “built-up libraries.” There is more good stuff to watch not-on-live-TV than on live-TV, and even the head of entertainment at NBC knows it. Television technologies are dragging us away from live television, to a world of smaller screens, shifting “windows,” and no more ads. In 2000, a company called Netflix was experimenting with movie rentals. Now they have more than 20 million streaming customers. In 2005, about 1% of households owned DVRs. Today, it’s more than 40%. In 2006, Hulu didn’t exist. Today it has just under 30 million monthly uniques, with more than 1 million paying subscribers. In 2009, there were no iPads. Today, there are 60 million, and most of them are in the United States. That’s a Cambrian explosion of options for “watching TV” without literally watching an actual TV.
So people are ‘watching TV’ but not watching network programming in real time: they have defected from the ‘appointment TV’ model, or defected from broadcast and networks as the delivery mechanism for TV media.
PS DVR is a strange intermediary technology, one that foreshadowed keeping your TV shows in the cloud. (Apple’s iTunes in the cloud is poised to destroy the market for DVR devices.)
(h/t emergent futures)
The end of network TV This hardly surprises me, especially as someone who listens to more radio per week than watches television. I wonder if New Zealand has a similar trend—since I cannot see the point of pay TV, or forking out money for a medium I use less and less of. But, all the times I have stayed at hotels, I have found precious little on pay TV that I want to see.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3509nPzOP1qcz5rmo1_1280.gif)
TV networks’ dominance of the delivery of TV content is rapidly collapsing, as alternatives expand and people build up their libraries:
Primetime Mystery: Where Did All the TV Viewers Go? - Derek Thompson via The Atlantic
The networks’ share of primetime TV audience (dark blue in the graph below [above in this post]) has declined from 45% in 1985 to 25% in 2009. Basic cable ate the networks’
lunchpost-dinner audience, and now it’s technology’s turn gobble up what’s left.Even with this long trend line (and despite the fact that viewers often unplug in the spring), there is a sense that we’ve reached a tipping point thanks to what Gaspin calls “built-up libraries.” There is more good stuff to watch not-on-live-TV than on live-TV, and even the head of entertainment at NBC knows it. Television technologies are dragging us away from live television, to a world of smaller screens, shifting “windows,” and no more ads. In 2000, a company called Netflix was experimenting with movie rentals. Now they have more than 20 million streaming customers. In 2005, about 1% of households owned DVRs. Today, it’s more than 40%. In 2006, Hulu didn’t exist. Today it has just under 30 million monthly uniques, with more than 1 million paying subscribers. In 2009, there were no iPads. Today, there are 60 million, and most of them are in the United States. That’s a Cambrian explosion of options for “watching TV” without literally watching an actual TV.
So people are ‘watching TV’ but not watching network programming in real time: they have defected from the ‘appointment TV’ model, or defected from broadcast and networks as the delivery mechanism for TV media.
PS DVR is a strange intermediary technology, one that foreshadowed keeping your TV shows in the cloud. (Apple’s iTunes in the cloud is poised to destroy the market for DVR devices.)
(h/t emergent futures)
The end of network TV This hardly surprises me, especially as someone who listens to more radio per week than watches television. I wonder if New Zealand has a similar trend—since I cannot see the point of pay TV, or forking out money for a medium I use less and less of. But, all the times I have stayed at hotels, I have found precious little on pay TV that I want to see.
A friend who was a waiter told me that his customers simply treated everyone nicely in the wake of the disaster. A tragedy of this scale meant a coffee that took an extra minute to arrive was not the end of the world …
Yet the aftermath was not always pleasant … It took only two weeks for my waiter friend to encounter the same old rudeness. His customers went back to self-importance, forgetting that we were in this game of life together. Never mind that people were hurting, or that Mayor Giuliani was attending funeral FDNY services with empty coffins in the very same city: where is my goddamn coffee?
Me, on life in New York City in the aftermath of September 11, 2001
April 18th 1930: Nothing happened
On this day in 1930 BBC Radio announced in a 6.30pm news bulletin that there was no news for that day and instead played piano music for the duration of the programme.
“Good evening. Today is Good Friday. There is no news.”
- BBC presenter
Quiet as Whereas these days we have reality TV stars to fill up such gaps.
(via juniorgazette)
Why is the Dick Van Dyke Show on so many TV Guide magazine covers, you ask?
Because America f***ing loves Dick Van Dyke.
You better believe it! ;]
Right up to 2004 A post with Dick, Mary, Carl and typography! Instant reblog!
(Source: clark-gables-mustache, via whatadickvandyke)
Happy Birthday Volvo!
I roll How appropriate that the caption reads that the car ‘rolls off’ the production line.
(via fuckyeahvolvo)
