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Media Musings

Privacy Or Perception?

As the countdown to what will undoubtedly be one of the most crucial and contentious upfront negotiating seasons ever continues, there is an impressive collaborative effort being led by several media conglomerates with linear and streaming platforms, including NBC Universal, Televisa Univision, Paramount Global and Warner Brothers Discovery, to stimulate the sharing and availability of

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Media Musings

From Banger To Binger?

So I finally gave into the latest craze of 2023,.  Thanks to the newly available Microsoft Bing Chat update that was released earlier this week, now I can afford to join the millions who already paid $50 or so for the likes of Chat GPT.  So far, I haven’t been asked for a penny, so

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Media Musings

Success Was Meant Tubi

Lately, there has been a lot of failure in media news, particularly in the subset of streaming platforms.  Not a day goes by when something negative about overly ambitious subscription goals not being met, ambitious series not achieving enough traction to warrant being produced beyond one or two seasons, or the pious belief that a

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Media Musings

Take Them Out Of The Ballgame!

The news was not unexpected.  Anyone who has followed sports, media or business knew about this Ides of March was going to be a hallmark day in the history of how and where fans see their favorite teams’ games.  Still, the news that reverberated through all of these industries’ publications yesterday was still dramatic, such

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Life Lessons

Another Milestone. Wanna Celebrate With Me?

As an unapologetic and passionate sports fan, numbers have always fascinated me.  My dad was an accountant and tax preparer, and at least until calculus I was actually better at math than I was in writing and creativity.  Those damn functions derailed what could have been a promising career in physics, which I am certain

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Media Musings

Progress, Not Perfection

After the tabloid-incindiery antics of last year’s Academy Awards presentation, anything that didn’t produce a potentially incarceratable incident that would eventually ban a nominee from the next decade’s worth of ceremonies would have been considered a step in the right direction,  Thankfully, last night’s event took more than a few steps toward redeeming and even

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Media Musings

Is It Still The Oscars? Or Just Another Selection Sunday?

Later this afternoon, two major events will occur live, back-to-back, and their results will be played out over national broadcast television.  Both will involve hundreds of candidates looking for recognition, with the emotion of waiting to see if they are acknowledged to be covered by ongoing close-ups and explosions of emotion when they find out

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Media Musings

Hey, Bedrock, Please Let Me Be Your Foundation

It’s pilot season, which used to be a time of year where dozens of contenders would be hurriedly cast, filmed, tested and retested, all in a quest to grab a slot on one of three networks’ fall schedules.  These days, with so few even being produced, even fewer by companies without corporate ties to the

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