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June-July 2025

Happy talk shows, temps measured in Celsius, football (soccer) coverage, and a desire to make money are useful ingredients to revive U.S. broadcast television.

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By |June 6th, 2025|Categories: My2Cents|Tags: |0 Comments

May 2025

Two issues are showing up on my turbulence radar screen. Both issues, in my view, will be solved by actions that are beyond the control of the executives that have created the issues.

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By |May 8th, 2025|Categories: My2Cents|Tags: |1 Comment

February 2025

TV outlets keep multiplying with SVoD, AVoD, and FAST. The number of quality TV production keeps dropping. Overall, advertising money keeps increasing. Linear TV outlets continue to be profitable. And yet, the content distribution industry is crying in unison: “No one is buying.” What gives?

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By |February 17th, 2025|Categories: My2Cents|Tags: |0 Comments

January 2025

Streaming is a content-delivery model that is now replicating legacy media’s losing content-delivery model in an effort to finally find success.

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By |January 14th, 2025|Categories: My2Cents|Tags: |0 Comments

November-December 2024

International TV trade publications are closing down in the U.S., Europe, and Asia, while many Canadian trade mags have been reduced to online-only. But in Latin America, they’re thriving.

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October 2024

A formula for all: Starbucks, cable TV network operators, and cable systems must learn to deal with a changed consumer environment.

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August-September 2024

After surviving 100-plus years, legacy media is in trouble because it was led down the wrong path by deep-pocketed tech companies.

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By |August 26th, 2024|Categories: My2Cents|Tags: |0 Comments

June-July 2024

Bad sound only affects streaming TV series — not shows broadcast on linear television channels. Despite this being a well-known problem, some streamers don’t seem to want to solve it.

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By |June 17th, 2024|Categories: My2Cents|Tags: |0 Comments

May 2024

The EV fiasco was predictable and serves as a cautionary tale for streamers. Forcing an untimely dismantle of the linear model and pushing for a premature adoption of an on-demand model will only generate more losses, more mergers, and more layoffs.

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By |May 7th, 2024|Categories: My2Cents|Tags: |0 Comments

April 2024

Incompetence masquerading as personal truth might be beneficial to one’s health. Too many truths, however, could cause agita.

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By |March 29th, 2024|Categories: My2Cents|Tags: |0 Comments