The Third Age of TV
If the first age of television was defined by broadcasters and the second by cable, the third age of TV is dominated by streaming entertainment and the blurring of television and film. The viewing experience is increasingly personalized, mobile, and unavoidable. Multimedia behemoths are making content to sell products, burnish reputations, and create an ecosystem you’ll never leave.
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- ROKOOLThe average Roku user streamed a record-breaking 340 hours of TV last quarterQuartz • August 6, 2020
- LIVE BY THE SWORDDisney is testing if its streaming subscribers will pay $30 extra to watch “Mulan”Quartz • August 5, 2020
- WINDOW OF OPPORTUNITYNetflix is happy to buy up the movies Hollywood studios can’t releaseQuartz • August 4, 2020
- TAKING UP SPACEThe summer movie event of 2020 was released in 2014Quartz • August 3, 2020
- SETTING A SCREENThe NBA returns tonight, and it’ll look like nothing you’ve seen beforeQuartz • July 30, 2020
- TOO FAST, TOO FURIOUSUniversal’s deal with AMC means seismic shifts in the movie industryQuartz • July 29, 2020
- LONG MAY SHE REIGNNetflix has pulled way ahead of HBO in the battle for prestige TV dominanceQuartz • July 28, 2020