If you go back far enough, scaled media was traveling groups doing pop-up performances as they rolled through towns, hoping to make enough to keep themselves ho

If you go back far enough, scaled media was traveling groups doing pop-up performances as they rolled through towns, hoping to make enough to keep themselves housed and fed. You make it sound like it was some kind of centralized mass-entertainment complex, but in reality that was rare until media had enough scale to create "rock stars" in the first place!