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.
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?
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.
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.
October 2024
A formula for all: Starbucks, cable TV network operators, and cable systems must learn to deal with a changed consumer environment.
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.
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.
April 2024
Incompetence masquerading as personal truth might be beneficial to one’s health. Too many truths, however, could cause agita.
January 2024
We must all be impressed by the resilience of the middlemen that not even the mighty U.S. studios were able to eliminate — starting with movie theater owners and cable TV/satellite TV providers.
