It was a quick little breaking news story that came through yesterday amidst dozens of others focusing on reactions to Oscar nominations, Super Bowl preps and whatever new drivel trickled out from the daily January 6th investigation committee leak. ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY, along with five other legacy magazine titles under the purview of Dotdash Meredith since … Read more
For the second time in less than a year, and for the third time in four, NBC’s schedule is on hiatus due to Olympic coverage. For the third consecutive Olympiad, NBC’s ratings have declined precipitously. For the third consecutive Olympiad, media and financial pundits are eager to prey upon every shred of data that trickles … Read more
Yesterday this fledgling enterprise got a shout-out from a much more established resource for entertainment and media news and information. The Programming Insider’s Marc Berman was respectful enough to include my recent observations about celebrity reality bookings in his daily newsletter, with a link to this site. If you have discovered this effort from that, … Read more
The revelation this week that none other than America’s Mayor and your favorite insurrection supporter Rudy Giuliani was both booked and (thankfully) first out on this spring’s upcoming season of THE MASKED SINGER made headlines. Yesterday the Hollywood Reporter weighed in with a scathing opinion piece calling it “a new low for TV image laundering”. … Read more
Yesterday’s news that Jeff Zucker was abruptly leaving his job as head of CNN president sent shock waves through both the news and entertainment industries. Zucker sent a letter of resignation to his teams after he disclosed he failed to tell Warner Media management about a consensual relationship he had been having with his longtime … Read more
My esteemed fellow Oswego graduate Lou Borrelli, currently the CEO of the National Cable Television Cooperative, a consortium of thousands of smaller MSOs who are attempting to provide old-school TV and new-school bandwidth to dozens of hamlets, offered a wonderful take and sobering reminder of how little the media business has changed, only the majority … Read more
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