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The Joy Of Cooking And Connecting
When the pandemic first took hold, dozens of my social media friends began to accelerate their postings, if for no other reason as to give them some meaningful connection to the outside world. At the time, I was distracted with a few more pressing matters, like determining what I was going to do with the
Racing Toward Diversity?
If you’re in the vicinity of the Los Angeles Coliseum tonight be prepared to invest in earplugs and a good pair of walking shoes. There will likely be loud engine noises and street congestion both inside and out as NASCAR kicks off its 2022 season with the relocated Busch Light classic that has historically served
Today’s Special Guests Are: Jo Anne Worley and Stewart Rhodes??
The revelation this week that none other than America’s Mayor and your favorite insurrection supporter Rudy Giuliani was both booked and (thankfully) first out on this spring’s upcoming season of THE MASKED SINGER made headlines. Yesterday the Hollywood Reporter weighed in with a scathing opinion piece calling it “a new low for TV image laundering”.
Tequesta Lives Matter, Too
Brian Flores made headlines earlier this week when he filed a class action suit against all 32 National Football League teams that called out specific incidents in the last month that have denied him employment as an NFL head coach.Flores has specifically accused the Denver Broncos, New York Giants and his former employers, the Miami
CNN: From Awwww to Zucker
Yesterday’s news that Jeff Zucker was abruptly leaving his job as head of CNN president sent shock waves through both the news and entertainment industries. Zucker sent a letter of resignation to his teams after he disclosed he failed to tell Warner Media management about a consensual relationship he had been having with his longtime
Stuck In A Churn?
My esteemed fellow Oswego graduate Lou Borrelli, currently the CEO of the National Cable Television Cooperative, a consortium of thousands of smaller MSOs who are attempting to provide old-school TV and new-school bandwidth to dozens of hamlets, offered a wonderful take and sobering reminder of how little the media business has changed, only the majority
And In Other News, The Sun Came Up
If you haven’t already surmised, I’m passionate about data and how digging for detail can reveal insights that otherwise get glossed over. So I’m a fan and an eager consumer of VIP+, the Variety Intelligence Platform that produces intriguing dissertations on media trends utilizing a myriad of innovative sources and applications of syndicated data. Frequently,
When Red Turns To Blue
When I log onto my online banking account, withdrawls and deductions appear on my screens in red; deposits appear in blue. For many months I’ve been seeing far more entries in red than I would otherwise wish. This past weekend I saw a few blue ones. One in particular that was as surprising as the
The Politicization of Data Democracy?
A report issued by the Video Advertising Bureau this week revealed that Nielsen underreporting during a 15-month period from September 2020 to December 2021 cost the television industry over $700 million in those months, wirth roughly half of that occuring during the six months between May and November 2021. VAB-5-Fast-Facts-Nielsen-OOH-Undercounting-Jan Further details, revealed from exhaustive