Meso-level financing practices drive television industry disruption

Evidence

Lotz, Amanda D. “Teasing Apart Television Industry Disruption: Consequences of Meso-Level Financing Practices before and after the US Multiplatform Era.” Media, Culture & Society 41, no. 7 (2019): 923–38. — Andrew deWaard, Derivative Media, 1277

Categorization

• DEFINE: Introduces the meso-level financing frame — the middle scale between macro finance and individual series — that links Wall Street instruments to series production decisions.
• XREF: Core to the reader’s causal question: meso-level financing practices are exactly the mechanism connecting financial structure to televisual form.