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''The A.V. Club'' is an entertainment website featuring reviews of films, music, television, books, games and DVDs, as well as interviews and other regular offerings examining both new and classic media and other elements of pop culture. ''The A.V. Club'' was initially created in 1993 as a supplemental part of ''The Onion'' and had a minimal presence on ''The Onion''’s website in its early years, but in 2005—during a website redesign—its online identity grew and matured in ways that allowed it to have an identity all of its own. Unlike its parent publication, ''The A.V. Club'' is not satirical. The publication’s name is a reference to school audiovisual clubs, "composed of a bunch of geeks who actually knew how to run the filmstrip and film projectors." ==History== In 1993, five years after the founding of ''The Onion'' at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, UW student Stephen Thompson launched an entertainment section, later renamed ''The A.V. Club'' as part of the newspaper's 1995 redesign. While the section was initially viewed as an afterthought to the publication's flagship fake news stories, Thompson credited it as becoming "very important" in allowing ''The Onion'' to expand distribution nationwide, as it was easier to sell advertising next to movie reviews and concert listings than satirical news items. Both ''The Onion'' and ''The A.V. Club'' made their Internet debut in 1996, although not all print features were immediately available online. The ''A.V. Club'' website was redesigned in 2005 to incorporate blogs and reader comments. In 2006, concurrent with another redesign, the site shifted its model to begin adding content on a daily rather than weekly basis. In December 2004, Stephen Thompson left his position as founding editor of ''The A.V. Club''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=Npr.org )〕 According to then ''Onion'' president Sean Mills, the ''A.V. Club'' website received more than 1 million unique visitors for the first time in October 2007.〔David Shankbone (24 November 2007). "An interview with 'America's Finest News Source'", ''Wikinews''〕 In late 2009, the site was reported as receiving over 1.4 million unique visitors and 75,000 comments per month. On December 9, 2010, it was discovered that a capsule review for the book ''Genius, Isolated: The Life And Art Of Alex Toth'' had been fabricated; the book had not yet been published or even completed by the authors.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Most Amazing Review of the Year )〕 The offending review was removed from ''The A.V. Club,'' and editor Keith Phipps posted an apology on the site.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=An apology from ''The A.V. Club'' )〕 At its peak the printed version of ''The A.V. Club'' was available in 17 different cities. Localized sections of the website were also maintained with reviews and news relevant to specific cities. The print version and localized websites were gradually discontinued alongside the print version of ''The Onion'' and, in December 2013, publication ceased in the final three markets. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The A.V. Club」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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