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Some Lemons Can’t Be Repaired
When my first car was totaled when I foolishly lent it to my college roommate when two girls he had invited over to “study” needed a lift back to campus. I need a replacement set of wheels badly. A big bodybuilder friend of his claimed to have a “steal” for me, a low-mileage, late-model sedan,
Precedence Day?
As an elementary school kid, I looked forward to February more than many other kids did. I wasn’t a huge fan of school during those earlier years, what with not being challenged by the watered-down curriculum my deportment and my draconian principal relegated me to. as well as regularly getting beaten up and ridiculed for
Judgment Day Is Fast Approaching
The beginning of the 1980s was considered a desert for fans of unscripted daytime television, After a decade where game show production, both for broadcast networks and first-run syndication, reached an all-time high, the success of only a scant few, coupled with many of the 70s hits running their course, resulted in pivots on the
What FOX News REALLY Should Have Learned
I was never invited by anyone to storm the Capital, certainly not on January 6, 2021. But slightly more than a decade before that, I was forcefully requested by a superior to “napalm Oldsmar”. Oldsmar, Florida is the Tampa suburb that at the time housed the Nielsen Company. I worked directly for FX, and tangentially
The Work Spouse Finally Gets The Real Spouse To Work
I’ll admit it, I like Kelly Ripa more than I should. I was not a fan of ALL MY CHILDREN, where she captivated daytime audiences for a decade as the troubled party girl Hayley Vaughn, but I knew darn well an awful lot of women 25-54 who watched ABC stations did. When she married her
The New Family Channel?
I once worked for The Family Channel, and as many already know I was involved in several attempts to rename it, for a variety of business and personally motivated reasons when my management took control. At the time, despite those wishes results consistently emerged that indicated a halo effect between the channel’s name and its
Maybe WXMI Doesn’t Quite Beat Princess Di. But Streaming Advertising Still Has A Long Way To Go
I’m sometimes amused by the degree of imagination and energy trade organizations like the Television Bureau of Advertising put into some of the analyses they do. Defending legacy broadcast television, particularly local television, in a landscape where media and tech companies continue to pour billions of dollars into growing streaming services, often at the expense
Searching For Love On Valentine’s Day. And Maybe A Break, Too.
Happy Valentine’s Day to those of you fortunate enough to have someone in your life who loves you and who allow you to love them back who may be close by, if not right next to you. Since the closest example I have to that these days is more than a thousand miles away, and
Performances Worthy Of Diamonds (Well, Mostly…)
Seems like every time the Super Bowl is held in Glendale, Arizona a really amazing afternoon unfolds. Certainly, the football and the drama that unfolded last night during the Kansas City Chiefs’ thrilling 38-35 comeback victory against the Philadelphia Eagles–only the second time in the game’s 57-year history where a team trailing at halftime came