Three ideas to increase profitability at ESPN
These three ideas are free, ESPN. You’d be a fool not to use them. I have many more, and I’d be more than happy to discuss a consulting position within…
Interstellar should be a TV show
For the record, someone should adapt Interstellar for television. There was about 49 hours of content squeezed into a little less than three hours. It would be an amazing TV…
Who is watching these political ads?
The Center for Responsive Politics estimates that nearly $4 billion will be spent on television advertising for the 2014 midterm elections, up from $3.6 billion in 2010. My question: Who…
Saturday morning cartoons are no more. A sad day for someone whose 27 year friendship may have been predicated on a Saturday morning cartoon theme song.
For the first time in 50-plus years, you won't find a block of animation on broadcast this morning. Saturday morning cartoons are over. It's the end of an era. I’m…
Extremely susceptible to advertising
My daughter is four year-old and has watched almost no commercial television in her life. Other than the occasional sporting event or a snippet of news in the morning, we…
Network television turns a baseball fan into the butt of a joke. Is this okay?
I’m torn. On the one hand, I love this video. There is nothing better than watching a muscle-bound man struggle with someone so inconsequential. All those hours spent lifting iron…
Background TV sucks. It turns out it’s bad for kids, too. But mostly it sucks.
The song “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” is about a couple who are struggling to stay together. In hope of salvaging their relationship, the boy reminds his girlfriend that regardless of their…