For a seasoned and passionate TV news afficiando this past week’s headlines have been more than a little gut-wrenching. I admit I got a tad emotional when I saw this item from THE NEW YORK DAILY NEWS’ Brian Niemietz burn up my timeline: News anchor Kaity Tong is retiring from PIX11 after nearly 35 years of … Read more
Those of you who actually know me know full well I have a love/hate relationship with Nielsen. Over the decades I’ve been directly or indirectly responsbile for putting close to a billion dollars in contracts into their coiffeurs, and those that empowered me to deal with them put a lot more in theirs. And at … Read more
I used to watch an awful lot of local morning TV news. I also used to be a LOT heavier and had a spouse who was absolutely addicted to it–not to mention a few other far worse substances and vices. Some habits die harder than others, I suppose. Fact is, like so many of those … Read more
I’ve been hearing from a few more people from my distant past than usual these days as this fall there is a milestone reunion of my high school class and the one that preceded it being planned. Most of these are people I didn’t spend all that much time with when I was in school … Read more
At the risk of being still more redundant than usual, I’ll own that this recent heat wave has been kicking my butt pretty harshly. And with yet another birthday that I’m candidly not all that thrilled about–and the extremely growing prospect that it will be quite lonely–fast approaching let’s just say that I’ve been in … Read more
Heat waves and an aging prostate don’t help my sleep cycles or my migraines, so I confess to slightly more doomscrolling lately than might otherwise be recommended by any legitimate medical professional. In these challenged conditions in a darkened room with binaural beats playing on my CozyBand headphones, I go out of my way to … Read more
We had a pretty good idea it was going to be a pretty good weekend in Culver City, Queens and Tokyo, two of which I’ve called home for good portions of my life and the third very much on my bucket list. We got our first inkling of the potential on Friday morning courtesy of … Read more
NOTE: This musing also appears today on our sister site THE DOUBLE OVERTIME. Please visit it regularly for coverage of sports of all sorts plus occasional essays on business and technology. Joe Buck, like myself, was once a young turk rising through FOX. When the network acquired the rights to broadcast major league baseball in … Read more
If you actually have spent any time elsewhere on this site besides this area you might have seen the logos of the various companies that at some point have employed me to help them make better decisions about their content and in turn millions–sometimes billions–more than their own devices might otherwise have led them to. … Read more
My creative friends do tend to get their danders up whenever I’m guilty of passing judgement on something before I’ve seen even a snippet of production. I’ve been guilty of reacting prematurely to press releases, sizzle reels and proofs of concept that to me came off as overly aspirational and/or filled with more than the … Read more