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	About Evan Shapiro President IFC As president of IFC, Evan Shapiro oversees the strategic and creative direction of the network, a distinct cable destination known for its indie perspective on what's worth watching and doing in alternative culture. Named to the position in June 2008, he has had a tremendous impact in strategically... more
New Media vs. Old: A False Dilemma - Evan Shapiro By Evan Shapiro False Dilemma: A term of logic, wherein only limited alternatives are considered, when in fact there are more choices available. More and more, I find myself betwixt oppositional forces on the front lines of the media business. New media proponents claim that the only future for the television business is one where all content is... more
Change That Makes Sense - Evan Shapiro By Evan Shapiro For such a modern industry, the Television Business is rife with anachronisms. Despite the addition of new technologies, new viewing patterns, new story telling techniques and new voices, many aspects of television are holdovers from the Kennedy Administration. The Television Season was invented to coincide with the school year, which in ... more
We're All Viewsers Now - Evan Shapiro-IFC By Evan Shapiro Welcome Evan Shapiro, our newest MediaBizBlogger. I just started my second semester teaching a weekly class on The TV Industry, at NYU/Stern School of Business. There are 70 undergraduate students in the class, all between 18 and 21, of varying ethnic and region origin, but (I'd say) pretty much uniformly upper middle... more