Table of Contents
Introduction

1. Pluto TV: Channels, Portals, and the Changing Television Cosmos

Derek Johnson

Broadcast Legacies

2. ABC: Crisis, Risk, and the Logics of Change

Kristen J. Warner

3. The CW: Media Conglomerates in Partnership

Caryn Murphy

4. PBS: Crowdsourcing Culture Since 1969

Michele Hilmes

5. Telemundo: Telenovelas for the Twenty-First Century

Juan Llamas-Rodriguez

6. TV Globo: Global Expansions and Cross-Media Convergence from Broadcast to Streaming

Courtney Brannon Donoghue

7. MeTV: Old Time TV’s Last Stand?

Derek Kompare

Cable and Satellite Survivors

8. NewsNation: Local Broadcasting, National Cable Channels, and the Evolution of WGN

Christine Becker

9. Cartoon Network: Adult Swim and the Evolving Use of "Edge"

Jacob Mertens and Lauren E. Wilks

10. Nick Jr.: Shifting Conglomerate Strategies from Scheduling to Intellectual Property

Erin Copple Smith

11. Freeform: Shaking Off the Family Brand within a Conglomerate Family

Barbara Selznick

12. Comedy Central: Trying to Grow Up by Getting Younger

Nick Marx

13. Bravo: Branding, Fandom, and the Lifestyle Network

Martina Baldwin and Suzanne Leonard

14. AMC: Story Sync and Frictionless Fandom

Suzanne Scott

15. Starz: Distinction, Value, and Fandom in Premium TV

Myles McNutt

16. Playboy TV: Contradictions, Confusion, and Post-Network Pornography

Peter Alilunas

17. El Rey: Latino Indie Auteur as Channel Identity

Alisa Perren

Streaming Ventures

18. Netflix: Streaming Channel Brands as Global Meaning Systems

Timothy Havens and Ryan Stoldt

19. YouTube: The Interface Between Television and Social Media Entertainment

Stuart Cunningham, Smith Mehta, Gabriela Lunardi, and Guy Healy

20. iQIYI: China’s Internet Tigers Take Television

Michael Curtin and Yongli Li

21. Amazon Prime Video: Scale, Complexity, and Television as Widget

Karen Petruska

22. The Roku Channel: Vertically Integrated Connected TV

Ramon Lobato and Eleanor Patterson

23. OTV | Open Television: The Development Process

Aymar Jean Christian

24. Revry: Making the Case for LGBTQ Channels

Julia Himberg

25. iROKOtv: Drama for the "Small-Small" Screen

Tori Omega Arthur

26. Crunchyroll: Contested Authenticity in the Creation of Niche Brand Communities

Susan Noh

27. Viki: Governing Transnational Fandom via Platforms

Wan-Jun Lu

28. Twitch.tv: Tele-visualizing the Arcade

Matthew Thomas Payne

Television Plus

29. Hulu: Negotiating National and International Streaming

Evan Elkins

30. Hotstar: Reimagining Television Audiences in Digital India

Shanti Kumar and Aswin Punathambekar

31. Abema TV: Where Broadcasting and Streaming Collide

Marc Steinberg

32. Mango TV: The Rise of a State-Controlled Entertainer

Xiaoying Han

33. Disney+: Imagining Industrial Intertextuality

Kyra Hunting and Jonathan Gray

34. ESPN+: Subscribing to Diversity, Marginalizing Women’s Sports

Jason Kido Lopez

35. Peacock: Network Heritage, Olympic Dreams, and the Transformation of NBC Sports

Deborah L. Jaramillo

36. HBO Max: Media Conglomerates and the Organizational Logic of Streaming

Gregory Steirer

37. Paramount+: "Peaking" Subscriber Interest in Legacy Television Franchises

Derek Johnson