Weekly Rewind
Scheduling The Nightly Show: Comedy Central’s cancellation of The Nightly Show With Larry Wilmore isn’t a cord-cutting story, per se, but Alison Herman’s take got me thinking about how things might’ve been different in a post-cable world. “In television, introductions are everything,” Herman writes at The Ringer. “Networks have entire departments dedicated to what airs when, before or after what; in late night, that scheduling process is simpler, but no less an art.”
As streaming video matures, and more people demand TV on their own schedules, the notion of curation will undergo dramatic changes. Humans may still be involved, but they’ll be assisted by predictive algorithms. And where scheduling was once the domain of TV network departments, your friends and family will have their own playlists to recommend via social media. The shift will be a lot like what music went through as listeners moved from radio to Internet streaming. Whether The Nightly Show could have survived post-cable is up for debate, but it might’ve stood a better chance at finding its audience.
Twitter on TV: Twitter’s $10 million NFL deal to stream 10 Thursday night games this season is nice for people who watch football on their phones or computers, but what about streaming on TV? According to the New York Times, Twitter and Apple are “in talks” to make the games available Apple TV boxes.
A bit of speculation: If Twitter does build an app for Apple TV, it’ll likely be a spin on traditional coverage, with tweets punctuating the games’ bigger moments. Whether you’re into that or not, at least it’s a way to watch the games without an antenna, a mooched cable login, or a Sling TV or PlayStation Vue subscription.
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