...Challenging assumptions that have underpinned critiques of globalization and combining cultural theory with media-industry analysis, this book gives an account of the evolution of television in the post-broadcasting era, and of how programming ideas are creatively redeveloped and franchised in East...

... and shows how the television-format business has generated innovations that extend the product life-cycle of concepts. In this sense, the flexibility of the format is tailored to the rapidly shortened shelf-life of television programming—a consequence of evolving audience demand for new services...

... and hybrid forms of programming attract the interest of television networks. The globalization of formats, along with interactive cross-media promotion and production techniques, illustrates “cultural technology transfer”: the television format is a package of technologies and services, delivering growth...

... Japanese TV travel programming televisual conventions Mark Meli People all over the world who appreciate literature are familiar with the travel journals of the Japanese haiku poet Bashō, and maybe with the tradition of earlier wandering waka poets like the Buddhist priests Saigyo and Noin. This older...

.... It examines some of the institutional dynamics of film festivals by focusing on the programming sections at PIFF between 1996 and 2005. Specifically, the chapter illustrates how the programming of local sections is closely tied to the current political, economic, and social interests of the institution...