This weeks lecture looked into Audiences in further depth. The part I will be analysing is specifically the Broadcast Era in which I’ve grown up. In this,  I want to address free to air television.
Through my personal experience I felt the end of the broadcast era in 2008. This is when I was 13 and my personal interest turned away from watching television with my family to seeking entertainment and information through other sources.
I no longer wanted to fit myself into the nuclear family, whom prime time television was aimed towards. However, now as an adult who no longer exhibits (as much) teen angst, I want to return to sitting with my family watching prime tv.

Unfortunately, during my distance from free to air, the media landscape shifted into the post broadcast era, and the chances I will be able to return are gone. Media has changed too much, and the power and routine of broadcast television is over.
I want to analyse how all the people growing up in a post broadcast era  have lost the ability to reconcile with free to air TV and thus turn to streaming. How media makers have less pressure to find that sought after 6.30 time slot. How audiences exist on two levels: those watching, and those who will watch later.

I have a strong nostalgia for being 13 and absorbing all the television I was shown, whether I wanted to see it or not. Those wasted hours watching tv until the show you set out to watch originally comes on. Waiting months for a “fast-tracked” episode of Gossip Girl, yet having to endure a re-run of Two and A Half Men. I don’t know if I loved it or hated it.

These days I find myself watching 3 different tv shows, none of them broadcast on television. The TV I bought in the living room is covered in a layer of dust. I like to put it on when I cook just for ambience. Broadcast media has lost it’s power, and I am intrigued to know why.

PS there is something about this aesthetic that I’m obsessed with. Like it’s a timepiece for my childhood. The longer the video goes, the more and more ‘2005’ it becomes.