Jay Penske, publisher extraordinaire and NASCAR nepobaby, has recently made headlines of his own again, at least via the few objective media journalism sites he doesn’t already own. MEDIAPOST’s Ray Schultz published as succinct a recap as possible on the site’s PUBLISHERS’ FORUM yesterday: Penske Media Corp. reportedly has warned offsite workers that they must … Read more
NOTE: This musing also appears today on our sister site TheDoubleOvertime. Please visit it regularly for coverage of sports of all sorts plus occasional essays on business and technology. For someone who’s as addicted to sports and technology as moi, today’s the first day of the rest of our lives. And if you’re somewhat more … Read more
You know how I’ve railed against the amount of time and money that’s been wasted on changing the name of a media company? You hopefully do recall those incidences; I went on such a rant as late as yesterday. There is a caveat to all of that vitriol though. The changes I worked on, not … Read more
It was hard to keep a straight face when I saw this nugget that somehow qualified as breaking news in the cable industry come in from multiple sources yesterday. Even though it was written rather plainly, it was practically trolling that one such source was CNN’s Brian Stelter: As the cable news channel MSNBC splits … Read more
I’m always a little jazzed when someone (or, more accurately, some machines) plow through exorbitant amounts of data to conclusively show that it corroborates what has otherwise been asserted as gospel truth that heretofore had been given the same sort of attitude that Bill Maher often references in his monologues. I don’t know it for … Read more
NOTE: This also appears today on our sister site DoubleOvertime. Please visit it daily for coverage of sports of all sorts plus occasional commentary on business and technology. When it comes to TV, the NFL season has already started. And I don’t just mean the slew of exhibition games that are available almost non-stop on … Read more
I realize that it’s downright chic to dismiss broadcast television as a dying industry, especially since every time Nielsen offers up new data its Gauge its share of measured viewing continues to decline. Given what little has been on this summer to spike it–heck, even BIG BROTHER is relatively meh compared to prior seasons–I strongly … Read more
It would be easy to be dismissive of FX’S ALIEN: EARTH as yet another lazy example of a platform (yes. given its omnipresence and proportion of total viewership of Hulu it’s much more appropriate to not call it merely a network these days) taking pre-existing IP that’s a known quantity to enhance the chance that … Read more
Probably the two questions I’ve been asked to answer most often, while the particular wording may at times vary, boil down to these: One, What do I think will happen? And two, why do I think what happened did? Those that are better than others at answering the first in a way that proves out … Read more
When I first had the chance to do work for Sony I was quietly asked by top management to weigh in on the progress of an ongoing project they were in the midst of fielding that was attempting to answer a simple question: what do people think is funny? Apparently, there was frustration that their … Read more