I realize that it’s downright chic to dismiss broadcast television as a dying industry, especially since every time Nielsen offers up new data its Gauge its share of measured viewing continues to decline. Given what little has been on this summer to spike it–heck, even BIG BROTHER is relatively meh compared to prior seasons–I strongly … Read more
Happy Birthday To Me. Yep, I let a select few of you down yet again. Yes, compared to the alternative aging another year is more than favorable. But that doesn’t mean it’s a joyride, either. I’m now inexorably in a demographic category that advertisers largely consider irrelevant. Even in the more generous surveys where ten-year … Read more
It would be easy to be dismissive of FX’S ALIEN: EARTH as yet another lazy example of a platform (yes. given its omnipresence and proportion of total viewership of Hulu it’s much more appropriate to not call it merely a network these days) taking pre-existing IP that’s a known quantity to enhance the chance that … Read more
Probably the two questions I’ve been asked to answer most often, while the particular wording may at times vary, boil down to these: One, What do I think will happen? And two, why do I think what happened did? Those that are better than others at answering the first in a way that proves out … Read more
NOTE: This musing also appears today on our sister site Double Overtime. Please visit it regularly for coverage of sports of all sorts plus occasional essays on business and technology. WARNING: Today’s musing contains NSFW content and images. I suppose there’s an enhanced amount of frustration among those invested in the WNBA. Last night, on … Read more
When I first had the chance to do work for Sony I was quietly asked by top management to weigh in on the progress of an ongoing project they were in the midst of fielding that was attempting to answer a simple question: what do people think is funny? Apparently, there was frustration that their … Read more
When the news began to appear of Howard Stern’s departure from Sirius XM began appearing in an uncomfortably frequent series of alerts earlier this week, I knew darn well this was going to become yet another partially snuffed out blunt on the dumpster fire of cultural discourse. The always reliable and truth-telling U.S. SUN and … Read more
Yesterday was a particularly busy day for the fine folks in the strategic planning departments of the various entities of the Walt Disney Company. All resulting in a pretty newsworthy earnings call where a lot more was discussed besides whether or not Bob Iger literally phoned it in from his yacht or not. POCKET LINT’s … Read more
Let me establish right here and now that I’m never happy when someone loses their job, no matter who it is or what particular circumstances may have lead to it. Unlike certain fascist farters who have built their “brand” upon it, the words “you’re fired” do nothing but further upset my ever-churning stomach. That said, … Read more
I grew up in a New York Post household long before it became associated inexorably with the color red. The Post was THE afternoon paper during my youth, which meant it actually had the West Coast box scores and updated standings that all but the very last-delivered editions of the Daily News had, and on … Read more