ABSTRACT

Spatial capital is in a constant state of negotiation, the inherent mobility of production forcing the various stakeholders of spatial capital to rethink their accounting, rearticulate their labor practices, and reimagine strategies for new forms of distribution as circumstances require. This conclusion considers the COVID-19 pandemic as one such circumstance. Although no one in the television industry would suggest that they ultimately benefited from COVID-19, a full accounting of the stakeholders in spatial capital reveals how the virus forced a reevaluation of ingrained hierarchies, underlining—and in some cases challenging—the arguments in this book as the virus reshaped the foundations on which understandings of space and place are constructed within the U.S. television industry.