TDG 3-Minute Reads
Can Comcast Create Enough Value from the Olympics to Justify the Cost of Content?
Olympic Value History The Olympics have long been one of the strongest pieces of content available. For the two weeks they broadcast, the Olympics...
The Apple of Roger Goodells’s Eye
Apple has been rumored, or more likely expected, to change television for at least the last decade. Since Steve Jobs famously remarked “I finally...
Regional Sports Leader, Sinclair is Bidding for NBC Regional Sports Networks
As reported in the New York Post, Sinclair Broadcasting has made an acquisition offer for NBCUniversal’s seven regional Sports Networks (RSNs). The...
Why Broadcast Networks Should Seriously Consider Canceling Their Evening News Broadcasts
In 1980, 42.3 million people watched major-network evening news. Today, viewership has fallen to 23.5 million, a loss of 44% of viewers in 40 years...
It’s Not All About Content Spend
With the recent merger of Warner Media and Discovery, and Amazon’s acquisition of the MGM archives, it has become quite popular to compare the...
HBO Max with Ads – Success or Strategic Blunder?
During its virtual upfront meeting last week, WarnerMedia CEO Jason Kilar announced the much-anticipated launch of “HBO Max with Ads”, a...
AT&T Discovers Entertainment Is Hard
On yet another day that rocked Hollywood, June Gloom came early for Jason Kilar and his streaming dreams. CEO John Stankey continued the unbundling...
Godzilla v. Kitty
During the last year, those divining the future of moviegoing have toggled between extremes, at times forecasting its rapid demise, only to reverse...
Hurry Up and Play Something!
Netflix recently launched Play Something, a feature that automatically starts a show on launch versus going directly to the scrolling menu. According...
Winner Takes Most
In a rather ironic move, Netflix has been quietly debuting some of its movies in U.S. theaters with a 7-day window (i.e., Netflix streams the films...