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Arts & Culture Podcasts

a show about media culture and the modern condition

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United States

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a show about media culture and the modern condition

Language:

English


Episodes
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Big news networks attack streaming in different ways

3/2/2020
ABC NBC Fox and other big networks expand live streaming news services.

Duration:00:03:09

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ESPN turns its focus to social

1/30/2020
The worldwide leader in sports expects to air more than 500 live original shows across its own digital properties and platforms including YouTube, Twitter, Snapchat and Facebook"

Duration:00:01:16

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What is Tony Romo worth?

1/29/2020
Sources tell Front Row Sports that ESPN wants to make the former Dallas Cowboy quarterback the highest-paid sportscaster in TV history. He’d make more than 10 million dollars a year to call Monday Night Football

Duration:00:02:06

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ESPN hires Omar Raja the builder of the House of Highlights

1/28/2020
The world wide leader's latest hire highlights a new path for ESPN

Duration:00:02:14

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How Bleacher Report makes money

1/27/2020
According to Digiday.com, Bleacher Report the digital sports company, creates content internally and does an analysis on whether they’d make more money selling it to another outlet or airing it on its platforms. That’s why the online sports outlet has sou

Duration:00:03:14

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Why the NBA and Louis Vutton are teaming up

1/24/2020
Fashion Magazine WWD reports that the partnership will start on the day of the first regular season game played in Paris on January 24th.

Duration:00:02:18

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Will Smith's Theory of Social Media

1/22/2020
Expecting social media followers to translate in box office dollars is a new phenomenon and only time will tell if it will actually work.

Duration:00:03:49

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Ready or Not Here Comes the Black News Channel

1/21/2020
But is it really needed?

Duration:00:02:22

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Will Spotify buy Bill Simmons' website the Ringer?

1/20/2020
Spotify and Bill Simmons have been negotiating for months but does buying the Ringer make sense?

Duration:00:04:42

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French Montana jukes the stats

1/16/2020
Today singles determine album sales. They don’t cause them. And knows knows this better than rapper French Montana... Instead of a collection of new music Montana used his self titled album to collect his best moments from the last four years including

Duration:00:02:40

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Selling cable news ads harder

1/15/2020
the allure of the some of the last remaining large live tv audiences may be too big to keep big advertisers away..

Duration:00:01:49

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Beastmode's gamble pays off

1/14/2020
After a tumultuous sound byte filled career Marshawn Lynch returned to the Seattle Seahawks for the last game of the season and the playoffs to a thunderous ovation and a thriving business

Duration:00:02:05

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Andre 3000 and Rick Rubin's mind melt

1/13/2020
In a rare, telling, wonderful look inside the head of one of hip hop’s most elusive and greatest creators legendary producer Rick Rubin, who is also co host of the broken record podcast sat down with Andre 3000.

Duration:00:02:04

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Imus is Dead

1/9/2020
Don Imus, as radio observer Scott Fybush put it “was complicated in a way that talented, difficult people often are. And a full accounting, when one is finally written, he will – and should – remember him for both his triumphs and his failings.

Duration:00:01:35

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Death to Comments

1/8/2020
As newsrooms shrink especially at newspapers and staff members are asked to do more many papers like the Oregonian are asking them why deal with the acrimony and headaches that comes with online comments.

Duration:00:01:46

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The Trouble with Netflix's Top Titles list

1/7/2020
Netflix released its most popular new titles list boding stars like Kevin Hart, Dave Chappelle, Robert De Niro, Adam Sandler and Eddie Murphy. But after scanning the list the truth about any piece of Information generated by Netflix screamed at me.

Duration:00:01:54

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What is Kevin Spacey Doing On YouTube?

1/6/2020
As I watched Kevin Spacey stoking a fire in a random Youtube video he post named “KTWK” channeling his House of Cards Frank Underwood persona, I was left wondering is this the end or the beginning for the disgraced actor

Duration:00:01:38

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Instagram is becoming Facebook

12/1/2019
why I think removing likes from Instagram is not altruistic is much closer to extortion.

Duration:00:29:37

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Tarantino, Violence, Spotify, Netflix, in discussion with Saby Reyes Kulkarni

11/13/2019
In discussion with Saby Reyes Kulkarni on Netflix, Tarentino, Storytelling, Wes Anderson and lists

Duration:02:19:18

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Media Diet: Puppets by Pusha T

10/28/2019
James lauds a teaser that's more than a teaser by Pusha T

Duration:00:01:36