TY - BOOK AU - Gillan,Jennifer TI - Television Brandcasting: The Return of the Content-Promotion Hybrid SN - 9780415841214 (hbk) AV - HE8700.8 .G55 2015 U1 - 384.550973 23 PY - 2015/// CY - New York PB - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group KW - Television broadcasting KW - United States KW - Branding (Marketing) KW - Technological innovations KW - Convergence (Telecommunication) KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies KW - bisacsh KW - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies KW - PERFORMING ARTS / Television / History & Criticism N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - "Television Brandcasting examines U. S. television's utility as a medium for branded storytelling. It investigates the current and historical role that television content, promotion, and hybrids of the two have played in disseminating brand messaging and influencing consumer decision-making. Juxtaposing the current period of transition with that of the 1950s-1960s, this bookJennifer Gillan outlines how in each era new technologies unsettled entrenched business models,; an emergent viewing platform threatened to undermine an established one,; and content providers worried over the behavior of once-dependable audiences. The anxieties led to storytelling, promotion, and advertising experiments, including the Disneyland series, embedded rock music videos in Ozzie & Harriet, credit sequence brand integration, Modern Family's parent company promotion episodes, second screen initiatives, and social TV experiments. Offering contemporary and classic examples from the American Broadcasting Company, Disney Channel, ABC Family, and Showtime, individual chapters focus on brandcasting at the level of the television series, network schedule, the "Blu-ray/ DVD/Digital" combo pack, the promotional short, the cause marketing campaign, and across social media space. In this follow-up to her successful previous book, Television and New Media: Must-Click TV, Gillan's new book provides vital insights into television's role in the expansion of a brand-centric U.S. culture"-- ER -