"Traditional television has not disappeared. The audience has not disappeared. What has disappeared is the idea that everybody is going to watch the same entertainment simply because a network tells us when it’s on."
Resler has developed a blueprint for community-building that utilizes existing digital platforms to help Paragon’s public radio clients launch, grow, and monetize their own micro-communities.
“The only English language broadcast that we had access to was the Armed Forces Network, which is NPR. That connection was important for my parents..."
"Traditional television has not disappeared. The audience has not disappeared. What has disappeared is the idea that everybody is going to watch the same entertainment simply because a network tells us when it’s on."
The Edison Research data proves what we already knew. Younger audiences put much more emphasis on their phones. You can argue that the industry misplayed that push that's been steadily growing for years. But there's also time to rectify that, too.