A few weeks ago, I was fortunate enough to connect via a high-profile friend with David Kenny, who at the time was the CEO of Nielsen. I had never personally met David; my dealings at those levels preceded David’s tenure, and he cut his teeth with executive positions on the agency side. I expressed to … Read more
There was once a time not too long ago when there was genuine excitement and anticipation that was in the air. Waaaay back in November 2019, we were on the cusp of dramatic expansion of brand new, exciting streaming platforms to challenge the dominance of Netflix, none quite as intriguing as the launch of Apple … Read more
Drew Barrymore hasn’t been this controversial since she overreacted to an alien and overaroused a late night talk show host. These days, Drew has somehow become the poster child for CBS daytime, defying both marginal ratings and a myriad of obstacles, starting with a global pandemic, to begin her fourth season as the host of … Read more
A very busy day yesterday began with a hopeful argument from a friend who was particularly concerned about the lack of progress in the Charter-Disney dispute that had disrupted his extremely nuanced, eaborate and established setup of how he could view and record a multitude of college football games on a timetable that would often … Read more
NOTE: This post is running concurrently today on our sister site, WWW.LEBLANGUAGE.NET. Please visit it for daily updates on media, politics and life. You’d be hard pressed not to find someone not in a reflective mood today. 9/11 has brought out those kinds of emotions now for 22 years, which means that this year’s college … Read more
You’d be hard pressed not to find someone not in a reflective mood today. 9/11 has brought out those kinds of emotions now for 22 years, which means that this year’s college graduating class has never known a world where this day doesn’t have the same kind of relevance and connection that, say, Pearl Harbor … Read more
More than three decades ago, I at least got the chance to turn my childhood obsession into a business strategy. Game shows were (and still are) the highest-rated and most profitable programs on TV, and while they were dominating late afternoon and early evening lineups, and still fairly prominent in the morning programming of the … Read more
Right up front, let me assure you all: the last word of today’s title is spelled WITH AN L. Just like my last name is spelled with two. Believe me, it’s been mispronounced more than once, and while I embrace the nickname, I still bristle when someone leaves the second “L” out of my last … Read more
On a day that was fraught with emotion for me on many levels, to top it all off, I had to see headline after headline about yet another so-called “nice guy” being publicly exposed for being far less nice in private than he was in public. As DECIDER’s Greta Bjornson reported: Jimmy Fallon has been accused … Read more
I’ve gotten four different alerts for free pumpkin spice lattes this week, Halloween candy displays are already in every drug store and supermarket I’ve been to (it’s the beginning of the month; that’s my window these days) and there’s no Thursday afternoon baseball game for white noise for the first time since February (ok, that … Read more