Jun 1, 2016 | Advertising, Blog, Business, Internet, Print, Radio, Television
The advertising business is finding out what the rest of the media-industrial complex learned long ago: you can’t fight city hall. Or, in Jetsons Future terms, now that content options are somewhere between plentiful and functionally infinite, showbiz is like...
Apr 25, 2016 | Blog, Business, Radio, Talent, Uncategorized
As entertainment professionals, we tell stories all the time. We spend most of our time thinking about the stories we’re going to tell to our fans, to the people who watch, listen to, or read the stories we create. We tend to spend less time thinking about all...
Mar 14, 2016 | Blog, Business, Core Principles, Football, Movies, Radio, Talent, Television
In entertainment, we like to talk about how we make “content”, and technically, that’s what we do. After all, content is a business word, and we’re in show business. The problem is that “content” is a totally non-emotional word, and...
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...
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...
