Look, suffice it to say, I’m hardly thrilled by the events of Tuesday. But unlike so many whose minds I truly can’t begin to grasp, I’m not unfriending anyone who might have actually chosen to vote for That Guy. I’m far more judgemental of his character and intellect, largely based on actual testimony of people … Read more
It’s Election Day 2024 at last, and I’m both mentally and physically exhausted. I typically get this way whenever Daylight Savings Time ends and my typically atypical sleep patterns get even more out of whack. I’m now purposefully setting whatever I might hope to be watching to tape knowing full well the odds of my … Read more
You can stop, as my paternal grandfather used to say in a moment of consternation, hocking mein chinik. If you don’t happen to have some familarity in Yiddish, here’s a link for you to get up to speed. I sent in my ballot yesterday, if for no other reason than to potentially take advantage of the … Read more
It may not have been the most significant victory to be achieved this month, but to the embattled leadership of Nielsen it was pretty darn big. As TV TECH’s George Winslow reported on Friday: The Media Rating Council (MRC) has approved the integration of first-party live streaming data into Nielsen’s accredited National Television service. In … Read more
The media/business nexus is still buzzing from the musings expressed this week by a fairly prominent leader on what was expected to be a victory lap. BLOOMBERG’s Kelcee Griffis was among the many who offered some basic details in stories dropped yesterday: Comcast Corp. said it’s considering spinning off its cable networks into a new … Read more
There may not be much left of the syndication business that I’ve known for decades, but what does remain of it sure can get interesting at times. The latest example of that was what the likes of VARIETY’s Gene Maddaus attempted to even-handedly report on yesterday: Sony filed a lawsuit Thursday accusing CBS of self-dealing … Read more
So the Los Angeles Dodgers are champions of baseball once again, and this time without the asterisk of a COVID season as was the case four years ago. There will actually be a parade through downtown Los Angeles tomorrow and given what I know of the many rabid fans who are bleeding blue all over … Read more
I finally caught up with a longtime business colleague and friend for a quick but highly needed lunch earlier this week. She can be forgiven; it’s been roughly a year since she was part of the second wave of layoffs that her division of CBS endured. With two teenage children, one who’s just begun to … Read more
Snark if you choose, but my passion for game shows is justified every time someone takes a hard look at the economic realities of entertainment these days. In a world of seemingly endless choices of expensive scripted content, the fact that few can now actually reach the level of popularity to justify their production is … Read more
While most of us were otherwise preoccupied with our mundane day-to-day lives and having to endure endless and increasingly desperate-sounding political ads and texts, the lucky few who still have tentacles to international television got to escape to the spectacular environs of Cannes this past week, for what was perhaps the final incarnation of the … Read more