{"id":1419,"date":"2011-10-13T09:00:23","date_gmt":"2011-10-13T13:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=1419"},"modified":"2011-10-09T11:14:27","modified_gmt":"2011-10-09T15:14:27","slug":"how-hbo-revolutionized-television","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2011\/how-hbo-revolutionized-television\/","title":{"rendered":"How HBO Revolutionized Television"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/100711_1945_HowHBORevol1.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In <em>Slate<\/em> Peter Aspeden writes that HBO transformed television from something that was viewed as &#8220;the lowliest form of cultural consumption&#8221; into a premiere art form. In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/life\/ft\/2011\/09\/its_not_just_tv.html\">this article<\/a> he discusses the attributes that helped HBO achieve this success and take in $4 billion along the way.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Larry Sanders Show was the tipping point for the network. Viewers realized that HBO was doing &#8220;something original and distinctive.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>This and other shows attracted the creative community which soon learnt that their ideas would be given a fair chance on the network.<\/li>\n<li>All of this combines to create a commitment to quality and excellence in television programming that is the reason for HBO&#8217;s success.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Find out more about redefinition of television as well as which TV show is considered the &#8220;best televisions series ever made&#8221; over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/life\/ft\/2011\/09\/its_not_just_tv.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/life\/ft\/2011\/09\/its_not_just_tv.html\"><em>Slate<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Slate Peter Aspeden writes that HBO transformed television from something that was viewed as &#8220;the lowliest form of cultural consumption&#8221; into a premiere art form. In this article he discusses the attributes that helped HBO achieve this success and take in $4 billion along the way. The Larry Sanders Show was the tipping point [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1419"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1429,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419\/revisions\/1429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}