Entertainment is moving to independent characters who have no need for the Screen Actor's Guild.
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Originally Posted by DCReid
What's the TMZ?
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It's a 30-mile radius from a particular intersection in LA where various SAG union rules apply. Outside the zone is "on-location" and so a different set of rules apply.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TMZ
But if you're completely outside the LA region, you're able to avoid the SAG entirely, and therefore do things much more cheaply.
The move to high ISO digital filming (rather than filming with film, which can't match the quality of digital's high ISO), LED lighting, and endless easy effects in post has taken away LA's core advantage over everywhere else: its predictable high-quality sunlight and a concentrated army of off-screen talent (camera, lights, special effects). The core talent that can't really be replaced digitally is probably wardrobe/makeup/hair and then elaborate backlot sets and the period car collections warehoused by the studios.
Also, editing software is now all cloud-based, which means a fair amount of it is being outsourced to - you guessed it - India.
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Atlanta is becoming 'Hollywood east' however, mostly due to African-American producers and artists.
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Atlanta's a media center because of Ted Turner. He established various cable channels there in the 1980s - CNN, TNT, TBS. Oddly, a lot of the Atlanta editing was done in Knoxville, TN, and so to this day Knoxville has various companies that produce cable shows that everyone here has heard of. For example, they do a lot of the true crime shows in Knoxville, meaning you see Knoxville cityscapes in many of the reenactments.