The collapse of broadcast TV and the rise of InterLace TelEntertainment

texture · background, ~YW-region (the last years of Unsubsidized Time)

• When: background, "more or less overlapping with the waxing of the Gentle Era and Experialist Reconfiguration" (scene 087); the penultimate year of the millennium
• What: In the same window that produces Gentle, the American broadcast-TV order dies (the Big Four networks, the A.C.D.C. cable kabal) and Noreen Lace-Forché's InterLace TelEntertainment rises — the cartridge/pulse-based, ad-free home-entertainment monopoly that becomes the media substrate of the new era. It is P. Tom Veals, fresh from this ad-industry apocalypse, who ends up managing PR for Gentle's fringe candidacy. Included as the O.N.A.N.-era media order; the ad/entertainment mechanics belong to the jim-art-ent / tech threads. See the Tech thread and the Filmography & Entertainment thread.