Show:
Fin Syn
Post Fin Syn
Labored Relations
Promotional Challenges
Distribution
100
This is a practice in which the network pays the studio that makes a show a license fee (which does not fully cover the costs of producing the show) in exchange for the right to air an episode.
What is deficit financing?
100
As soon as the Fin Syn rules ended, networks began populating their schedules with shows produced by this.
What is common ownership?
100
This continues to operate with an unusual level of unionization, with almost all work in the mainstream creative industries relying upon a collectivized agency to negotiate basic fee scales for work and residual payments on content.
What is Hollywood?
100
After cable broadcasters began filling summer programming with new rather than rerun shows, network broadcasters were increasingly unable to rely on these for promoting their shows.
What are their own networks?
100
This is a practice in which content providers craft deal that allow a series to earn additional revenue during its original run either by airing multiple times on the broadcast network licensing the series (more than a typical rerun) or by airing concurrently on a cable network, thereby shortening the previous window between original run and syndication.
What is repurposing?
200
This is the primary ways studios made money under Fin Syn.
What is syndication?
200
This term is misleading because in reality, networks provided little or no support to their commonly-owned studios but had syndication rights.
What is co-production?
200
This type of show does away with the need for many unionized employees.
What is unscripted television?
200
Networks began leveraging these, formed after post Fin Syn conglomeration, to attract audience members who were eluding their traditional techniques.
What are sister networks?
200
This industrial development adjusted conventional distribution windowing and revolutionized the possibilities for profiting from content.
What is the DVD market?
300
This practice, which forced studios to deficit finance programs while also giving up a percentage of their syndication revenues, ended when the government intervened with Fin Syn.
What is profit participation?
300
This type of television surprised everyone with its success while remaining inexpensive to produce.
What is reality TV?
300
Determining how funds will be shared from these has proven difficult.
What are DVD sales and new distribution possibilities?
300
UPN aired the pilot of this show on American Airlines flights as a part of an overall trend of allowing free alternative distribution to entice viewers.
What is "Everybody Hates Chris"?
300
This reduces production and distribution costs and allows studios to profit from content that may be pretty obscure or fairly far down the "long tail" of cultural products.
What is on-demand distribution?
400
This is a British alternative to Fin Syn that could have reduced both the risk and the reward for studios and could have solved some of the same problems that Fin Syn attempted to solve.
What is Cost Plus?
400
Had the creators of this famous Carsey-Werner show been working under conditions of common ownership that existed post Fin Syn, they may not have been able to resist network attempts to make the main character a Las Vegas performer.
What is The Cosby Show?
400
In this practice, producers fled Hollywood to evade the cost of union production.
What is runaway production?
400
This station's successful alternative model of promoting it's high quality content was developed from it's need to promote unconventional and irregular seasons.
What is HBO?
400
Within four months of its 2005 launch, this company streamed about 35 million videos each day.
What is YouTube?
500
This is the year in which Fin Syn rules were completely eliminated.
What is 1995?
500
Post Fin Syn, studios had to rely more on international syndication. As a result, this has been increasingly pushed off the air.
What is programming featuring African American casts?
500
The Writer's Guild strike of this year lasted twenty-two weeks, delayed the premiere of the 1988 season, and cost the industry an estimated $500 million.
What is 1988?
500
The displacement of this has posed substantial consequences in program promotion.
What is linear viewing?
500
This controversial issue involves the question of whether cable systems and telcos can seek competitive advantage by pairing with content providers. Without regulation in place to assure this, people worry that some websites will be better able to offer streamed content and good download speeds than others.
What is "network neutrality"?