Feb 10, 2016 | Blog, Business, Internet, Movies, Print, Radio, Talent, Television
Let’s talk about one of my favorite types of people: mad scientists. In an era of massive change in entertainment and media, it is the crazed experimenters who will develop successful products, and you don’t have to be one solitary scientist sitting in...
Jan 21, 2016 | Blog, Business, Radio, Television
It’s been amusing to see the meltdown over the alleged outing of Netflix’s closely-guarded audience metrics. As someone who programmed radio stations for over 20 years, living and dying with new ratings data every single week, I can tell you that in our...
Jan 5, 2016 | Blog, Music, Talent
Things aren’t always what they seem on the surface, and sometimes we lose sight of the things that truly move the emotional needle – whether trends or people – until something dire happens. So it was at the end of 2015 when one Ian Fraser...
Nov 5, 2015 | Blog, Business, Internet, Print, Radio, Television
This week’s new leap across media boundaries is an Evel Knievel-sized jump. The New York Times is moving into virtual reality storytelling. I don’t know about you, but I’m both floored and not the least bit surprised. For a while, I’ve been...