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The Beginning Of Nielsen’s End Game?
It may not have been the most significant victory to be achieved this month, but to the embattled leadership of Nielsen it was pretty darn big. As TV TECH’s George Winslow reported on Friday: The Media Rating Council (MRC) has approved the integration of first-party live streaming data into Nielsen’s accredited National Television service. In
Psst! Wanna Buy A Slightly Used Network, Cheap?
The media/business nexus is still buzzing from the musings expressed this week by a fairly prominent leader on what was expected to be a victory lap. BLOOMBERG’s Kelcee Griffis was among the many who offered some basic details in stories dropped yesterday: Comcast Corp. said it’s considering spinning off its cable networks into a new
Ironically, There’s A Family Feud Between Wheel and Jeopardy’s “Parents”
There may not be much left of the syndication business that I’ve known for decades, but what does remain of it sure can get interesting at times. The latest example of that was what the likes of VARIETY’s Gene Maddaus attempted to even-handedly report on yesterday: Sony filed a lawsuit Thursday accusing CBS of self-dealing
What Media Companies Could Learn From Today’s Dodgers
So the Los Angeles Dodgers are champions of baseball once again, and this time without the asterisk of a COVID season as was the case four years ago. There will actually be a parade through downtown Los Angeles tomorrow and given what I know of the many rabid fans who are bleeding blue all over
When You Actually Have Something To Say, Why Stay Quiet?
I finally caught up with a longtime business colleague and friend for a quick but highly needed lunch earlier this week. She can be forgiven; it’s been roughly a year since she was part of the second wave of layoffs that her division of CBS endured. With two teenage children, one who’s just begun to
What Idiot Invited This Jackwad To The Party?
My roommate was literally over the moon about the spectacle that occupied Madison Square Garden on a rare day when the Knicks, Rangers or a concert wasn’t booked, one he claims he watched from end to end yesterday. He couldn’t stop raving about the energy, the love and the size of the crowd–perhaps because it
The Movie Games
Snark if you choose, but my passion for game shows is justified every time someone takes a hard look at the economic realities of entertainment these days. In a world of seemingly endless choices of expensive scripted content, the fact that few can now actually reach the level of popularity to justify their production is
For The Last Time, It’s NOT A Binary Choice!!
One of the reasons I pay a disproportionate amount of attention to sports and escapist entertainment is that there’s only so much bandwidth even I have for the urgency, determination, desperation and incendiary rhetoric that an election cycle tends to produce. And even though I don’t live in a swing state, I still get more
A Lukewarm Adieu To Automne In Cannes
While most of us were otherwise preoccupied with our mundane day-to-day lives and having to endure endless and increasingly desperate-sounding political ads and texts, the lucky few who still have tentacles to international television got to escape to the spectacular environs of Cannes this past week, for what was perhaps the final incarnation of the