If you blinked, you missed NBC Universal’s hotly hyped new show “Quarterlife.” After airing a single episode on NBC, the media titan decided to move the program to its Bravo cable network. NBC–and the creators of “Quarterlife”–fell into a classic trap of trying to “cram” disruption into an existing model.
Why NBC’s Quarterlife Failed to Disrupt
If you blinked, you missed NBC Universal’s hotly hyped new show “Quarterlife.” After airing a single episode on NBC, the media titan decided to move the program to its Bravo cable network. NBC–and the creators of “Quarterlife”–fell into a classic trap of trying to “cram” disruption into an existing model. No one has yet figured […]
March 05, 2008
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