November 2025
Forget about surveys to gauge the value of conferences at trade shows. The phone lights that go on in markets’ conference rooms are the best way to rate interest in (…)
October 2025
Finding a way to justify my shortcomings involves chutzpah, dragging philosophy into it, picking the right excuses, and blaming it on journalism.
August-September 2025
The present and future outcomes of international TV trade shows will be assessed by looking at the number of advertising pages in TV trade publications, which can also attest to (…)
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.
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 (…)
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 (…)
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.
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.