If you haven’t already surmised, I’m passionate about data and how digging for detail can reveal insights that otherwise get glossed over. So I’m a fan and an eager consumer of VIP+, the Variety Intelligence Platform that produces intriguing dissertations on media trends utilizing a myriad of innovative sources and applications of syndicated data. Frequently, … Read more
A report issued by the Video Advertising Bureau this week revealed that Nielsen underreporting during a 15-month period from September 2020 to December 2021 cost the television industry over $700 million in those months, wirth roughly half of that occuring during the six months between May and November 2021. VAB-5-Fast-Facts-Nielsen-OOH-Undercounting-Jan Further details, revealed from exhaustive … Read more
I’ve written quite a bit about what has been going wrong in my world and the world at large IMHO of late, frequently looking back at happier and more influential times for context and support. Today I’m going to try and look at the present and future for positivity with examples of how dreams can … Read more
A&E premiered the new documentary series SECRETS OF PLAYBOY earlier this week. It had been promoted for weeks and given some of the people I’ve been blessed with knowing of late I had more than a passing interest in seeing it. Apparently, I wasn’t alone; the first two episodes reached over 1.4 million viewers in … Read more
THE number was released to the media recently for the tenth consecutive year. Yes, the eagerly awaited “official” annual tally for Peak TV, the barometer of the number of adult-oritented scripted TV series estimated to have aired on broadcast TV, cable TV and streaming services in a calendar year. For the record, 2021’s NUMBER was … Read more
One of the few bright spots of this horrific new year has been the meteoric rise in the popularity of WORDLE, an online word guessing game which has exploded in a manner of months to more than 300,000 daily players, per the New York Times, myself included. The object of WORDLE is to guess a … Read more
Yesterday I very briefly caught a display ad on a trade site that signaled that my former colleagues at Sony were very quietly making available weekly episodes of THE GOOD DOCTOR and S.W.A.T. to local television stations in the fall of 2022. These days, the repeats of any television program being made available to over-the-air … Read more
When the viewership figures for this past weekend’s NFL wild card games are released later today you will note all the sizzle points will reference “total audience”. Although each licensee directs viewers to a primary linear network, each of them used additional networks or platforms to augment their total reach. Some media pundits call this … Read more
Ten years ago this month I was hired for what some accurately called an inevitability. I was given the chance to head programming and scheduling for GSN, otherwise known as Game Show Network. In the impeccable words of yet another prematurely departed colleague, the eloquent David Lyle, it was akin to putting Dracula in charge … Read more
No one close to me died yesterday, thank G-d, so I could move on to something else. And, thankfully, JEOPARDY! has moved on from its troubled 2021 to a stellar start in 2022 both ratings and zeitgeist-wise. Now under the supervision of Michael Davies, who moonlights as a very passionate soccer (ahem , “football”) fan … Read more