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The George Lopez show is truly one of a kind. Only two sitcoms in the history of television have been completely cast by Hispanic Americans, “The George Lopez Show” and “Greetings From Tuscan.” The two shows combined account for 44% of all Latino characters in prime-time television, an enormous number considering the amount of shows that air every week. Only 4% of Hispanics make up the cast of prime-time television shows, a miniscule amount considering that

Threat of New Competition: Netflix has almost zero threat of new competition. Any new competition would have to overcome large capital expenses to get started; these expenses include obtaining TV show and movie rights from the studios. Even if the starting

Netflix does not allow customers to watch all released movie on demand. There are some movie that customer cannot instantly watch. If Netflix developed streaming service and figure out a problem of coexisting between rentals and streaming service, Netflix can create competitive advantage.

Thus far, pubic television has failed to adopt popular media forms. Public television stations such as PBS failed to attract larger and more diverse audiences because they kept their programming intellectual and dull rather than building on popular aspects of television culture. Ouellette and Lewis argue that PBS could have incorporated sitcoms, soaps, and sports into their programming and then

India integrated equality into television a long time ago as their children have been brought up with a sense of diversity. Whereas in America, television is an exact product of what the powerful people want to see, where children are often left without a decision and have to deal with the negative results of lost identity. India is combing races fluently into television and hopefully the rest of the world will too. If over half of the country cannot feel represented in America, but its population is so diverse why does television fail to display all races? The answer is up to the children as they hold the voice to make this change in

Hispanics have long been seen as a growing and profitable market by many. However, as the article mentions, only recently have many large brand names begun to view them as a valuable base of customers. The article states that dating to the 1980s, Hispanic consumers became a target for advertisers but only recently have they become a serious target for all serious marketers, especially the big name brands that are looking to boost sales in these tough times.

Latinos have had a big impact in population numbers in the United States. Constant immigration from Latinos and Hispanics from all over the world have resulted in a large population of them living in America. As of July 1, 2015, there were a total of 56.6 million Hispanics in the U.S., which makes it the largest racial minority in the country (Bureau, 2016). Having a large population of Hispanics, impacts a lot of aspects in the daily lives and influences communities around

Netflix globalization moment is divided before and after the live streaming. Before Video-on-Demand, the company was only operating in the USA with the regular video delivery. Consumers used to access their website and request the videos for delivery; so they made up a partnership with USPS in order to deliver and retrieve DVDs all over the US. With technology enhancement and TV channels (NBC and CBS) broadcasting content online, Netflix came up with the concept of video on demand as well.

By 2011, nearly one person out of every six living in the United States will be of Hispanic/Latino origin (Selig Center Multicultural Economy Report, 2006).

What is the image of the male Latino American in the media today in television, in the movies, and in other media? Is the male Latino represented fairly in American media? And if he is often presented as a stereotype, why is he portrayed in stereotypical situations? The answers to those questions come from a number of sources that will be presented in this paper.

Large catalogue of diverse shows and movies – Netflix has a vast collection of international shows and movies that other competitors in the market do not have.

Cable systems that now allow viewers to catch up on missing shows have increased the popularity of many shows this fall. Acording to Comcast, the country’s largest cable system, 42% of cable subscribers and more than half the video-on-demand customers used the system to watch Fox’s horror comedy Scream Queens and FX’s violent period drama The Bastard Executioner. NBC’s Blindspot has also been a popular show that has grown because of on demand features. The number of homes with DVRs is around 50% and the usage of video on demand is growing. The article states that networks prefer video on demand and DVRs because viewers can’t skip commercials.

In addition, an independent research conducted in Bryant University suggest that out of 50 domestic students, 35 students like watching Indian movies whereas 8 did not like Bollywood movies and 7 have not watched it yet. Though the sample size is small, it serves to show that the domestic people are watching and accepting Bollywood movies. Netflix is an American internet based steaming media provider company which provides more than 100,000 movies. The most interesting fact is that 89% of the Foreign Movie section in Netflix, is Bollywood movies. Netflix has about 33.1 million viewers in United States alone and yet the “Most Watched Movie “and “Foreign Movie” section consist of many Bollywood movies. This shows that Bollywood has influenced the domestic audience as well the industry itself. The influence of Bollywood element and the Indian culture can be seen quite evidently in the music, dance and visual representation in Hollywood movies.

Streaming services such as Netflix and Hulu have taken this question and formed an answer that meets the satisfaction of their subscribers. Driven by anti-piracy innovation, by adopting the concept of online piracy downloads and streaming, services such as Netflix and Hulu allow various movies and television shows to be accessible across platforms such as mobile phones, laptops, computers, and televisions (). In an interview with Spanish newspaper, El Mundo, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings states “Well, you can call it a problem, but the truth is that [piracy] has also created a public used to viewing content on the Internet,” (). With piracy shifting viewers from television to the Internet, Netflix jumped on the opportunity to offer a streaming service, creating a legal version of piracy.

Regardless of what type of entertainment platform you are using, you cannot go without being inundated with some sort of marketing attempt by one of the larger entertainment giants in the United States which is DirecTV. Since their inception, they have continued to be successful and took a gamble with business in Latin America, which has also proven to be successful. DirecTV gained 685,000 new subscribers in the 4th quarter of 2013, alone. (Ramachandran & Ben, 2013). With the growth and success in Latin American there are still political, financial, economic, and competitor risks they face. Utilizing good management techniques and well informed decisions, these risks are not insurmountable as long as they are aware of the environment around them.