From Networks to Netflix

Derek Johnson is Associate Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. He is the author of Media Franchising: Creative License and Collaboration in the Culture Industries, as well as the co-editor of A Companion to Media Authorship, Making Media Work: Cultures of Management in the Entertainment Industries, and the forthcoming Point of Sale: Analyzing Media Retail.

Introduction/Channel Listings

Channel 1 – Pop: Television Guides and Recommendations in a Changing Channel Landscape

Derek Johnson

Broadcast Stations and Networks

Channel 2 – ABC: Crisis, Risk, and the Logics of Change

Kristen J. Warner

Channel 3 – The CW: Media Conglomerates in Partnership

Caryn Murphy

Channel 4 – Rede Globo: Global Expansions and Cross-Media Extensions in the Digital Era

Courtney Brannon Donoghue

Channel 5 – PBS: Crowdsourcing Culture Since 1969

Michele Hilmes

Channel 6 – Alabama Public Television Network: Local Stations and Struggles Over Collective Identity

Allison Perlman

Channel 7 – DR: License Fees, Platform Neutrality and Public Service Obligation

Hanne Bruun

Channel 8 – MeTV: Old-Time TV’s Last Stand?

Derek Kompare

Cable and Satellite Services

Channel 9 – WGN America: From Chicago to Cable’s Very Own

Chris Becker

Channel 10 – ESPN: Live Sports, Documentary Prestige, and On-Demand Culture

Travis Vogan

Channel 11 – NBC Sports Network: Building Elite Audiences from Broadcast Rights

Deborah L. Jaramillo

Channel 12 – The Weather Channel: Genre, Trust, and Unscripted Television in an Age of Apps

Jon Kraszewski

Channel 13 - TLC: Food, Fatness, and Spectacular Relatability

Melissa Zimdars

Channel 14 – MTV: #Prosocial Television

Laurie Ouellette

Channel 15 – A&E: From Art to Vice in the Managed Channel Portfolio

David Craig and Derek Johnson

Channel 16 – Spike TV: The Impossibility of Television for Men

Amanda D. Lotz

Channel 17 – Comedy Central: Transgressive Femininities and Reaffirmed Masculinities Nick Marx

Channel 18 – Nick Jr.: Co-Viewing and the Limits of Dayparts

Erin Copple Smith

Channel 19 – Disney Junior: Imagining Industrial Intertextuality

Kyra Hunting and Jonathan Gray

Channel 20 – Disney XD: Boyhood and the Racial Politics of Market Segmentation

Christopher Chávez

Channel 21 – Freeform: Shaking off the Family Brand within a Conglomerate Family

Barbara Selznick

Channel 22 – El Rey: Latino Indie Auteur as Channel Identity

Alisa Perren

Streaming Channels

Channel 23 – Awesomeness TV: Talent Management and Merchandising on Multi-Channel Networks

Avi Santo

Channel 24 – ISAtv: YouTube and the Branding of Asian America

Lori Kido Lopez

Channel 25 – East India Comedy: Channeling the Public Sphere in Online Satire

Subin Paul

Channel 26 – Twitter: Channels in the Stream

James Bennett and Niki Strange

Channel 27 – Twitch.TV: Tele-visualizing the Arcade

Matthew Thomas Payne

Channel 28 – BBC Three: Youth Television and Platform Neutral Public Broadcasting

Faye Woods

Channel 29 – Open TV: The Development Process

Aymar Jean Christian

Premium Television

Channel 30 – Netflix: Streaming Channel Brands as Global Meaning Systems

Timothy Havens

Channel 31 – Hulu: Geoblocking National TV in an On-demand Era

Evan Elkins

Channel 32 – iQiyi: China’s Internet Tigers Take Television

Michael Curtin and Yongli Li

Channel 33 – Amazon Prime Video: Where Information is Entertainment

Karen Petruska

Channel 34 – Playboy TV: Contradictions, Confusion, and Post-Network Pornography

Peter Alilunas

Channel 35 – Starz: Distinction, Value, and Fandom in Non-Linear Premium TV

Myles McNutt

Channel 36 – WWE Network: The Disruption of Over-The-Top Distribution

Cory Barker and Andrew Zolides

Channel 37 – CBS All Access: To Boldly Franchise Where No One Has Subscribed Before

Derek Johnson