A Solution to the Brian Williams Dilemma
Think about it…. (image courtesy Wikicommons) So NBC seems to have a problem. Should Brian Williams come back? Personally, I can’t see what all the agonizing is over, but it might have something to do with the reported $30...
Read moreIce, The Olympics & NBC
This 1852 drawing, from Gleason’s Drawing Room Companion, shows ice harvesting on Spy Pond in Arlington, Massachusetts in the mid-19th century (Source: Wikimedia Commons) Ice used to be a big business. A very big business. Ice was harvested from...
Read moreIcing The Networks
It’s a cold future for conventional networks If you were born at the turn of the last Century (19th), and you were looking for a place to invest your money, ice looked like a pretty good bet. The ice...
Read moreUntil The End of TIME
Every once in a while you come across a book that changes your life. When I was in my early 20’s and lost, I came across In Search Of History, by Theodore White. It set the path for the rest...
Read moreTurn 30 Rock into Condos? Why Not?
When I look out my living room window, this is what I see. The GE Building. Which used to be the NBC Building Which used to be the RCA Building Maybe soon it will be the Comcast Building. It’s...
Read moreThe Machine Gun and the Media
There is an old expression that goes ‘necessity is the mother of invention’. Ever hear it? Nothing could be further from the truth. In point of fact, the world works in exactly the opposite way. New inventions come along...
Read moreWhy Networks Are Finished
The confluence of two piece up in today’s blogosphere drives home the point of why conventional network television is deader than a doornail. First, a fascinating blog on Empire Avenue. Blogger Ric Williams went to CES and attended a...
Read moreWhy TV News is SO VERY TERRIBLE (and why ratings keep dropping)
same old.. same old… When television was launched by David Sarnoff at the 1939 World’s Fair in NY, no one knew what to do with it. Think Internet 1992. But they knew what to do with radio. Radio was...
Read more“Credibility” in News
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlLhxBnYNvY[/youtube] Do you like this? Here’s a Reality show for you… The video you see above was shot by a member of Surgeons Over Seas, an excellent group of highly dedicated surgeons who travel the world teaching locals basic...
Read moreWhat I Learned at BET
Pretty much everyone knows that television news is terrible. It is unwatchable. It is crap. The people who know this the best are the people who are actually in the business. They aren’t kidding anyone, least of all themselves....
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