Why Did They Cancel Vinyl

The two hour vinyl opener is said to have cost about 30 million and the first season 100 million.

Why did they cancel vinyl. Nielsen music reports that vinyl sales for 2017 reached their highest level since 1991 with around 14 million records sold in the united states. Vinyl didn t launch in the way we were hoping it would. It s disappointing but it happens hbo s outgoing head of programming michael lombardo told deadline last month. Record companies also deleted many vinyl titles from production and distribution further undermining the availability of the format and leading to the closure of pressing plants.

Retailers fearing they would be stuck with anything they ordered only ordered proven popular titles that they knew would sell and devoted more shelf space to cds and cassettes. Burns had been reportedly. The decision not to. They attached terence winter of boardwalk empire and the sopranos fame mick jagger and martin.

The vinyl cancellation comes two and a half months after news broke that terence winter would not return for the second season due to creative differences scott z. Despite a renewal announced in february hbo s scrapped plans for season two of its much hyped series vinyl amid efforts to retool the series. Why music fans of the 1980s ditched vinyl for cds a philips technician gives a demonstration on how to use the new compact disc cd on mar. Sources say the decision to cancel vinyl rather than reboot the series for season two is part of.

7 1981 in paris. Instead it was unceremoniously canceled wednesday in a surprising reversal of fortune after the premium cable network initially renewed it for a second season in february. Sure the idea that vinyl drowned by the mid 90s under the weight of compact discs and their perfect sound forever is utterly conventional wisdom but a reason came up recently to.