I’m always a little jazzed when someone (or, more accurately, some machines) plow through exorbitant amounts of data to conclusively show that it corroborates what has otherwise been asserted as gospel truth that heretofore had been given the same sort of attitude that Bill Maher often references in his monologues. I don’t know it for … Read more
I spent a total of 15 years in the employ of companies owned by Rupert Murdoch, achieved some of the greatest professional success of my career and every single check I ever received cleared. I never worked directly for FOX News or The New York POST, perhaps two of the more notorious brands that he’s … Read more
I knew they had relocated DEAL OR NO DEAL to a tropical island. I had no idea they were doing new episodes on an Alaskan peninsula. When I staggered home yesterday to find Roomie perched in front of our communal TV eagerly anticipating the press conference that was to provide details for the Trump-Putin summit … Read more
NOTE: This also appears today on our sister site DoubleOvertime. Please visit it daily for coverage of sports of all sorts plus occasional commentary on business and technology. When it comes to TV, the NFL season has already started. And I don’t just mean the slew of exhibition games that are available almost non-stop on … Read more
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