This could be the beginning of the end for the decades-long Nielsen ratings scam.
As the main, if not only, source of a supposedly objective measurement of audience views, Nielsen has been the foundation of the broadcast entertainment business financial plan since the days of radio.
It’s been a long, long time since characters with the following and impact of Disney’s mascot and DC’s biggest headliner became public domain, but in the next few years – even less time than we have to stop climate change – that’s a-gonna present a whole new (and theoretically much more fixable) entertainment world:
As the ball dropped over Times Square last night, all copyrighted works published in 1923 fell into the public domain (with a few exceptions). Everyone now has the right to republish them or adapt them for use in new works.
We’ve just said goodbye to 2018 and now it’s time to consider all that we’ll be saying goodbye to in 2019. We’re talking about TV and film properties here, kids. So many series that we’ve loved and are about to lose:
The new year has only just begun but it’s already got us thinking about the end. Over the course of the next 12 months, fans are going to see the end of some of the biggest franchises and shows of all time. Let’s take a look at which pop culture favorites are wrapping up in 2019.
Don’tcha love end-of-the-year roundups and stats? Us too. Like these:
A few years ago, the joke among network TV execs was that “flat is the new up” — meaning that you could tout victory if your network had managed to at least hold steady and not lose more viewers.
Why, The Walking Dead, of course. As a member of a previous generation might have said (oh, um, hiya, LB): “Check it out!”
At the end of every year we take a look at the most-downloaded TV-episodes among torrenting pirates.
The list was headed by Game of Thrones for six years in a row, but this reign has now come to an end.