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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

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

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

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

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