NOTE: This musing also appears today on our sister site, www.TheDoubleOvertime.com. Please visit it regularly for musings of sports of all sorts as well as the portfolio of content from Binary News. I rejoined FOX shortly after they had obtained the rights to broadcast major league baseball. As I made the rounds of offices of … Read more
Just in time for the 2024-25 NBA season, and early enough in the NHL and college seasons to be forgiven, sports TV is getting yet another rebrand. USA TODAY’s media reporter Mark Giannoto broke the news to his handful of readers last week: Bally Sports is no more. Diamond Sports Group announced that it will … Read more
In a minefield where multiple struggling streamers are rolling out expensive and buzzy “prestige” series as the window for Golden Globes nominations is fast closing, it’s easy to overlook the fact that over the course of five October days three examples of what fall premieres used to be are in the midst of being rolled … Read more
NOTE: This musing also appears today on our sister site, www.thedoubleovertime.com. Please visit it regularly for opinions on sports of all sorts. When ESPN recently had a few stray weeknights where they were scrambling to find live content to fill prime time hours they turned to women’s college volleyball for a short-lived schedule of matches … Read more
The intrepid Nellie Andreeva of DEADLINE struck yet another nerve yesterday when she dropped an intriguing observation about how an unsung entity has–eponymously–used some old fashioned 20th century strategy and tenacity to produce atypically strong results in an otherwise downturning 21st century: In 2008, a comedy about the behind-the-scenes of the TV industry, Back To You, … Read more
I’m as guilty as anyone in making snap judgements or even prejudgements, especially when the concept of monetization is involved. I freely admit it’s a trigger point for me, if for no other reason than I live with the omnipresence of others judging me for even thinking of paying to read someone else’s insights and … Read more
NOTE: This also appears today on our sister site, www.thedoubleovertime.com. Please visit it regularly for musings on sports. Yesterday should have been more celebratory for moi. Thanks to a one-time surprise gift and some opportune timingin hitting up an aftermarket ticket site, I was able to secure a nosebleed ticket for what turned out to … Read more
Well, the public has spoken. And the track record of content called THE APPRENTICE continues to be somewhere between underwhelming and pathetic. This past weekend, the movie of that name finally opened after months of behind-the-scenes lobbying, buyouts, politically incentivized rhetoric and outright campaigning for the world at large to have the chance to see … Read more
You may not have known the name Dick Block even if you consider yourself to be a true fan of media history and content. His most recent full-time executive position ended more than three decades ago, and his first was in the days where UHF over-the-air television was the disruptive equivalent of Netflix. And UHF … Read more
It sure seems that streaming services are being run by and for folks who clearly think folks in my age bracket are afterthoughts. And that’s a shame, because I happen to fall into a clearly growing sector of it that continue to embrace, pivot and even default to them, despite their inability to grasp the … Read more