In the first part of this article, I summed up how television and online video audiences choose what to watch. In these concluding, remarks, I will cast a glance at how EPGs work today and what the future may have in stock for them.
Continue Reading...What we need is a diversity of impartial EPGs out of which consumers can choose freely and without technological difficulties, and a sensible combination of machine-generated automatic recommendations and human editorial input.
Continue Reading...Early on, private TV seemed to hold a promise. Huge amounts of money flowing into it generated step-by-step more expensive and thus better-looking programmes. Observers got the impression that it was going to mature into a medium of real public value. But then came a shock.
Continue Reading...Ignoring the impact of private equity on media companies would turn a blind eye on the effects for the general economy and for society. A company that pays corporate income taxes, that creates jobs and that is not overwhelmed with debt is much more of a public asset than a business that goes to great lengths to make an operative profit which is, in fact, consumed by debt service.
Continue Reading...Harry Hampson, a banker at JPMorgan, explains why international investors see Germany as a lucrative media market despite a number of spectacular business failures during the last two decades
Continue Reading...News in private television is sort of a killjoy, such as mandating cigarette manufacturers to put warning messages on their boxes: Television distracts you from reality.
Continue Reading...Participants from the private sector could not entirely conceal a certain envy of the German public broadcasting system. Both commercial TV groups grudgingly admitted to being with their paid-for video offerings nowhere near Internet viewing figures like that of ZDF.
Continue Reading...Der Anspruch des Sammelbandes, gezielt den Blick auf von der Wissenschaft vernachlässigte Populär- und Trivialformen fiktionaler Fernsehangebote zu richten, wird kaum eingelöst, und es wird ein Querschnitt von Forschungsansätzen sichtbar, dem die gemeinsame Stoßrichtung fehlt.
Continue Reading...Glen Creebers Herangehensweise ist insgesamt mehr feuilletonistisch als wissenschaftlich. Selbst dort, wo seine Plädoyers besonders eindrucksvoll wirken, mangelt es vielfach an Belegen, und das gesamte Buch krankt daran, dass ihm eine einheitliche Systematik fehlt.
Continue Reading...Das volle Forschungsinstrumentarium hätte Park nur in Zusammenarbeit mit einer der Sendergruppen nutzen können; einer solchen Kooperation wären dann aber vermutlich die Unabhängigkeit und die Veröffentlichung der Ergebnisse zum Opfer gefallen.
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