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What Is Happening to TV?

Is the age of broadcast and blockbusters at an end?

Jeff Jarvis
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8 min readSep 9, 2022

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TV has had more supposed golden ages than the Queen had bling: Sid Caesar’s brief blip during TV’s infancy was hailed as one such shimmering age only because what followed — America stranded on Gilligan’s Island — was so unbearable as to make his Show of Shows’ Vaudeville shtick seem worthy of nostalgia. On broadcast, Cosby — yes, that

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Jeff Jarvis
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Blogger & prof at CUNY’s Newmark J-school; author of Geeks Bearing Gifts, Public Parts, What Would Google Do?, Gutenberg the Geek