September 2023
In the U.S., Canada only makes news due to unwelcome winter chills that drift south or as smoke from forest fires blankets U.S .cities for days. Under normal circumstances, Canada (…)
June-July 2023
To determine if a company is financially sound and solidly well run, the litmus test is simple: leaf through the trade press. If you see their ads, there’s money behind (…)
May 2023
If you wonder why the building of large projects tends to go over budget, over time, and over expectations, a new book is attempting to explain it. Separately, I’ll attempt (…)
April 2023
Before analytics there were other methods for gauging viewers’ interest in TV shows, the most common being ratings. But the frontrunner was “Flush Ratings,” (…)
January 2023
To solve the streaming SVoD woes, C-suite honchos should apply a journalistic trait when hiring their operation executives: Find those who don’t know anything.
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December 2022
In the past, those seeking out U.S. TV station managers at trade shows needed only to follow their TV engineers through the aisles. Today, (…)
November 2022
The fact that history repeats itself is noted in many an expression, including “Everything is cyclical,” “Looking back epitomizes modernity,” and even “Back to (…)
October 2022
We live in a world in which shades of gray no longer exist. These days, everything is black or white. And television is not exempt from this. Actually, television personifies (…)
September 2022
The entertainment industry is going through an unprecedented era of transition, with new-school executives who find hard to deal with the daily innovations. But exceptions are starting to emerge in (…)