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Vertical Integration

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same company owns the “problem” and the “solution” to that problem MONOPOLY

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Horizontal Integration

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companies own several aspects of an industry (combine resources)

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Synergy

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a business strategy that seeks beneficial combination of business lines across an integrated company

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Oligopoly

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Major Studios
Broadcast & Cable
Streaming Services
Internet Providers
(the top of the food chain)

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Disney

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Walt Disney studios
Walt Disney Television
ESPN
HULU

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Walt Disney Studios

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Walt Disney Pictures
Pixar
Marval Studios
Lucas Films
20th Century Studios

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Walt Disney TV

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ABC Group
20th Television
FX Networks
National Geographic

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Comcast / NBC Universal

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NBC Entertainment
Telemundo
Universal Pictures
Dreamworks

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WB Discovery

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Warner Bros. Pictures
Warner Bros. TV
HBO
CNN Global
DC Entertainment
Discovery Networks

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Paramount

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Paramount Pictures
Paramount Media Network (TV)
CBS Entertainment group

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Sony

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Sony Entertainment
Sony Pictures
Columbia Pictures
Sony Pictures TV

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Streaming Services

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Netflix
Amazon Studios
Apple

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Broadcasting

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1940s-1980s
Ad based

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Federal Communication Commission

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Gov. regulates TV
technology standards
public interest in mind

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Network Affilate Model

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regulations kept TV companies from owning stations
3 commercial and 1 public networks
NBC,ABC,CBS,PBS

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Narrowcast era

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1980s-2010s
Growth of cable tv
Ad+subscription
Digital TV standards

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Narrowcasting

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one way transmission of info to a narrow audience

ex. Fox, WB/CW, TBS,&WGN

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Prime Time

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Network programming focused on evening hours (after work)

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TVOD

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transactional video on demand

pay-per-view

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AVOD

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Advertising video on demand

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SVOD

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Subscription video on demand

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Intellectual Property Laws

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give business protection to the maker or company that created a cultural product

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Co-Commissions

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a joint funding venture between a streaming company & another media company

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Commission

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funded and planned as a company product from the beginning

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Acquisitions

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an already planned & made product bought by a streaming company with exclusive rights

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Licenses

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pays a production company for temporary streaming rights

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Territory

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Country that a media company distributes in.

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Ancillary Markets

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Subsequent revenue sources

home video sales
tv broadcasts
airplane/ public screening
VOD

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TV Ancillary Market

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Broadcast season = first run
Syndication
Home video sales
Public screening
VOD

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Syndication

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tv rebroadcast

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Digital TV

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cleaner signal
improved picture & sound quality

FCC mandated

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Quality TV

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Box Set Aesthetic (repeat viewership)
Better writing producing & managing
“BINGING SHOWS”

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Showrunner

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single writer/manager/producer

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Limited Series

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show planned around a small # of episodes

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Runaway Production

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the shooting of Hollywood films outside of California

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Production Companies

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Major studios
Parent companies
Affiliated production companies
Independent Production companies
Mini-majors

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Mini-Major

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a film company that lacks the capital or distribution of a major (still releases big budget movies)

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In-House production company

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production companies owned by a major media company

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Overall deal

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a major media company will pay for a producers entire creative service & the cost of running their production company

ex. Netflix

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First-look deal

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allows a studio to get the option of exclusivity from a production company (production company maintains intellectual property)

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Vanity deals

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deal for a star or talent

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micro budget

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<$100,000

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low budget

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$100,000 - $5 million

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mid budget

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$5 million - 50 million

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big budget

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> $50 million

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Blockbuster

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films are bigger -budgeted & popular genres with saturation release & major marketing campaigns

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Tentpoles

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films are blockbusters with least amount of risk (franchises & sequels)

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Paramount Decree

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1948
Broke up majors’ vertical integration of distribution and exhibition
(reversed in 2020)

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Gross Returns

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total revenue generated from ticket sales

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Domestic gross returns

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sum revenue from US theaters

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global gross return

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sum of all revenue

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Saturation Release

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release in many theaters all at once

ex. blockbusters & tentpole

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Platform Release

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slowly released over time (start in a few cities and branch out)

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Limited Release

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shows to a small # of theaters

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4-wall release

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film distributor/production company buys out the theater for screening w/o revenue (limited release)

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Distribution (box office) legs

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strong box office revenues will lead to theaters to keep screening for longer

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Distribution Window

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window of time between initial theatrical release and subsequent video release

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Longtail

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the longer something is available the more passive revenue

max revenue when first released -> passive revenue

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First Scale Doctrine

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physical media (CD/DVD) is the property of the purchaser

(“buying” from a streaming service is just long term leasing)

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Economy approach to media

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markets
pricing
size of pie
relative slices of pie (relative to total amount of media consumption)

(pie chart)

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Trade Press

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provided advertising and review of productions

covers the business of film/TV industry

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Political Economy approach to media

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interested in economics for what it tells us about the kinds of media made & circulated

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Conglomeration

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a number of different parts grouped together

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Legacy Media

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Mass media institutions that predominated prior to digital media

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Linear TV

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scheduled TV

66
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On Demand TV

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viewer can pick when and where they watch

67
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Netflix & Streaming ch. 1

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Content x experience = value proposition

Libraries are freeing

Core business-assemble attention of advertisers

Streaming services are personalized

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Netflix & Streaming ch.3

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SVOD need to keep subscribers above all else

content has to be worth paying for (broad audiences)

SVOD focus on quality work & linear TV focuses on Quantity

AVOD try to build audience/demographic while SVOD has mass appeal

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Netflix & Streaming ch.7

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SVOD personalize platform through analysis of viewing history (taste cluster)

taste communities- groups of people with the same taste

people can be in many taste communities

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