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It seems every human being with a web address feels the compulsion to weigh in on the Slap Heard ‘Round The World that Will Smith bestowed upon Chris Rock on live television Sunday night.  (Upon further review, it was considered more of a slap than a punch). As someone who passionately believes that what I

This morning CNN launched its long-awaited streaming service, unimaginatively called CNN+.  Yes, I subscribed; don’t admonish me.  I’m a bit of a news junkie, I’d like to think I’m a thorough observer of all things media, and I once worked for the company.  For less than six bits a week, I now have access to

Where there’s a will, there’s a way.  Where there’s two Wills, there’s chaos. And perhaps it was all designed to be reminiscent of another time when ABC needed a WTF incident on live TV to breathe life into a struggling franchise. Will Packer was tasked with reinvigorating an Oscars awards broadcast that had hemorrhaged more

The Oscars are being given out tonight, restored to its Hollywood venue, a full-fledged red carpet and rife with anticipation that TV rating downtrends of recent years will be reversed. A lot of attention has been paid to a precipitous ratings decline that reached dumpster-fire proportions last spring, when the muted Union Station affair failed

It has been a pretty eventful week for my friends and aspirational colleagues at the Nielsen Company. In the same week that their board rejected a buyout offer from Elliott Management that was reportedly $6 billion below the previously reported valuation, they were informed by the Media Rating Council that they still would not reinstate

This is sort of a milestone for this space, the 150th of these exercises since we started dabbling roughly ten months ago.  As I have struggled to find a voice and an audience, topics have wavered between, as one astute observer shared with me, “pop culture, media insights and a personal journey”, three words have