I tend to get inspired for these daily musings when I sift through the alerts I get overnight (or, on many occasions, in real time as I battle insomnia). The three that stood out today pretty much sum up how creatives and business people are operating in parallel universes: — Our old friend Yosemite Zas … Read more
I’m far from the target audience for the MCU. The Marvel titles were a clear third on my pecking order of spending my allowance, with the DC Universe first and foremost in my heart (blame the campy 60s TV version of BATMAN, the first show I was allowed to stay up past 7:30 for), with … Read more
I once had the chance to eavesdrop on what can only be described as locker room talk between a couple of male billionaire media moguls. One was recently married, and happily so, effusive in his love and affection for a strong woman who he professed rescued him from a life of serial dating and horndogging, … Read more
When my first car was totaled when I foolishly lent it to my college roommate when two girls he had invited over to “study” needed a lift back to campus. I need a replacement set of wheels badly. A big bodybuilder friend of his claimed to have a “steal” for me, a low-mileage, late-model sedan, … Read more
As an elementary school kid, I looked forward to February more than many other kids did. I wasn’t a huge fan of school during those earlier years, what with not being challenged by the watered-down curriculum my deportment and my draconian principal relegated me to. as well as regularly getting beaten up and ridiculed for … Read more
The beginning of the 1980s was considered a desert for fans of unscripted daytime television, After a decade where game show production, both for broadcast networks and first-run syndication, reached an all-time high, the success of only a scant few, coupled with many of the 70s hits running their course, resulted in pivots on the … Read more
I was never invited by anyone to storm the Capital, certainly not on January 6, 2021. But slightly more than a decade before that, I was forcefully requested by a superior to “napalm Oldsmar”. Oldsmar, Florida is the Tampa suburb that at the time housed the Nielsen Company. I worked directly for FX, and tangentially … Read more
I’ll admit it, I like Kelly Ripa more than I should. I was not a fan of ALL MY CHILDREN, where she captivated daytime audiences for a decade as the troubled party girl Hayley Vaughn, but I knew darn well an awful lot of women 25-54 who watched ABC stations did. When she married her … Read more
I once worked for The Family Channel, and as many already know I was involved in several attempts to rename it, for a variety of business and personally motivated reasons when my management took control. At the time, despite those wishes results consistently emerged that indicated a halo effect between the channel’s name and its … Read more
I’m sometimes amused by the degree of imagination and energy trade organizations like the Television Bureau of Advertising put into some of the analyses they do. Defending legacy broadcast television, particularly local television, in a landscape where media and tech companies continue to pour billions of dollars into growing streaming services, often at the expense … Read more