It wasn’t a physical hurricane that hit South Florida this week for a change, but in the media world, particularly those with any vested interest in broadcast television, it was the equivalent. The newspapers that still remain part of that ecosystem certainly covered it that way. The MIAMI HERALD’s Devoun Cetoute, for one: WPLG-TV, known … Read more
I’ll qualify this musing by admitting I’m more than a tad biased towards the good folk at Apple TV+. I worked with many of them for years and I have immense respect for their taste and talents. And if one were to look at the data from the smart TV in my living room you’d … Read more
It’s quite likely Ted Sarandos has been at his current job longer and done it better than you. VARIETY! took special note of his silver anniversary year by making the Netflix czar a cover boy of this week’s issue and gave him the conquering hero treatment in the process. It took a two-on-one approach from … Read more
To some of you, there’s no getting around one indisputable fact. By certain standards, I’m old. Forget how I believe I tend to think, which is often through the lens of how someone else thinks. Decades of training listening objectively to people in thousands of focus groups and disseminating reams of survey information from all … Read more
The story of Village Roadshow Entertainment Group will someday soon make for some interesting subject matter for some advanced media strategy seminar at some university. I oughta know, since when the most recent iteration of it was being put together I actually spent an entire class using it as a prime example of how to … Read more
NOTE: This musing also appears today on our sister site, TheDoubleOvertime. Please visit it regularly for coverage of sports of all sorts plus occasional essays on technology. Degenerate gamblers and lucky office workers (assuming you’re actually one of those unfortunates who are grudgingly trucking into one these days) can rejoice. It’s officially March Madness season, … Read more
After another week of stormy weather, it was a picture postcard Saturday afternoon in Hollywood yesterday, and it should have been cause for celebration for those attached to Disney. They were finally premiering, after years of preparation and production and delays which they ascribe to the writer’s strike, a live-action adaptation of the movie that … Read more
Sharon Waxman, the founder and publisher of THE WRAP, is one of the stronger voices remaining in the world of entertainment media, ready to take a stand on anything she determines may be undermining business or country. And she seems to have some very positive qualities. For one, she has no affiliation with any Penske … Read more
Ever since streaming services reached critical mass I’ve advocated for the technology to take full advantage of its potential to offer someone the unvarnished potential of a live, nightly pulpit for something other than a politically skewed newscast. But whenever those who had access to actual data would evaluate the proposition it inevitably pointed to … Read more
His name is Brian Glenn, and if you didn’t immediately recognize that name a couple of months ago, then consider yourself more grounded than you may have thought. Lately, it seems he’s becoming a lot more visible and prominent, if for no other reason than mainstream media can’t stop introducing us to him. Glenn’s real … Read more