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Friday, August 24, 2018
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Friday, February 9, 2018
Because FOMO
HBO hit 5M online subscribers, although many of them aren’t using the HBO app, and what good are subscribers if they aren’t using your app?
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Monday, February 5, 2018
Thursday, November 9, 2017
Who Knew?
7 Things to Know About ‘Martha & Snoop’s Potluck Dinner Party’
4) Martha’s Having Fun and Making Friends, Too: Although Stewart does not hang quite as loose as Snoop, she says she still has a blast hanging out with him. “I’m doing a fun show,” Stewart tells the WP. “We’re having interesting guests, we’re doing all sorts of great, I would say funny, things. We’re trying to give people a little bit of information and a lot of enjoyment.” Apparently Martha and Rick Ross became chummy after he appeared on the show. “We’re email pals,” she says.
5) Martha Is Gaining New Fans Because of the Potluck: Some of Stewart’s team members initially thought that signing on for this show was “an odd scenario” for her, but the program has helped grow her fan base. “It brought me a credibility in a broad spectrum of our society that I hadn’t had before,” she told the Times last year.
6) The Potluck Is Getting a Cookbook Companion: But it will probably be a Snoop-only affair. The rapper/media mogul explains: “People were inquiring about those dishes, and how can we do it. I was like, you know, [expletive] it, I’m gonna do a cookbook.”
Complete list (Eater.com)
4) Martha’s Having Fun and Making Friends, Too: Although Stewart does not hang quite as loose as Snoop, she says she still has a blast hanging out with him. “I’m doing a fun show,” Stewart tells the WP. “We’re having interesting guests, we’re doing all sorts of great, I would say funny, things. We’re trying to give people a little bit of information and a lot of enjoyment.” Apparently Martha and Rick Ross became chummy after he appeared on the show. “We’re email pals,” she says.
5) Martha Is Gaining New Fans Because of the Potluck: Some of Stewart’s team members initially thought that signing on for this show was “an odd scenario” for her, but the program has helped grow her fan base. “It brought me a credibility in a broad spectrum of our society that I hadn’t had before,” she told the Times last year.
6) The Potluck Is Getting a Cookbook Companion: But it will probably be a Snoop-only affair. The rapper/media mogul explains: “People were inquiring about those dishes, and how can we do it. I was like, you know, [expletive] it, I’m gonna do a cookbook.”
Complete list (Eater.com)
Tuesday, October 31, 2017
I Look Forward To Watching This Next Year
Hold onto your ape hangers, American Chopper returns next year
This is not a drill: American Chopper returns to the Discovery Channel in winter 2018.
Discovery tells us the reboot gets father and son together to "reclaim their preeminent bike brands and – hopefully, rebuild some sort of relationship."
(AutoBlog.com)
This is not a drill: American Chopper returns to the Discovery Channel in winter 2018.
Discovery tells us the reboot gets father and son together to "reclaim their preeminent bike brands and – hopefully, rebuild some sort of relationship."
(AutoBlog.com)
Thursday, October 26, 2017
I Disagree With #1 On This List
The 20 Best TV Spin-off Series of All Time, Ranked
The best of TV's follow-up shows, from "Angel" to "Xena."
It’s been 30 years since Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie first
appeared as interstitials on “The Tracey Ullman Show.” The origins story
of “The Simpsons” is now the stuff of legend: “Tracey Ullman” executive
producer James L. Brooks recruited Matt Groening to turn his “Life in
Hell” comic strip into interstitials; instead, Groening came up with the
Simpsons family, based on his own family (and named after most of
them). After three seasons on “Tracey Ullman,” a series was attempted —
starting with an animated Christmas special in 1989.
Now entering Season 29, the show is close to surpassing “Gunsmoke” (which ended its run with 635 episodes) as the primetime scripted show with the most episodes in history. “I can’t believe how many people who work on the show have been working on the show for as long as they have,” creator Matt Groening said this summer at San Diego Comic-Con. “It’s gratifying to be able to continue to tell stories and come up with new jokes — and repeat some old ones.”
Complete list (IndieWire.com)
The best of TV's follow-up shows, from "Angel" to "Xena."
2. “The Simpsons”
- “The Simpsons”
- Fox
Now entering Season 29, the show is close to surpassing “Gunsmoke” (which ended its run with 635 episodes) as the primetime scripted show with the most episodes in history. “I can’t believe how many people who work on the show have been working on the show for as long as they have,” creator Matt Groening said this summer at San Diego Comic-Con. “It’s gratifying to be able to continue to tell stories and come up with new jokes — and repeat some old ones.”
14. “A Different World”
- “A Different World”
- NBC TV/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock
19. “The Facts of Life”
- “The Facts of Life”
- NBC-TV/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock
Complete list (IndieWire.com)
Thursday, October 12, 2017
Where There's Smoke . . . . .
Up in Smoke
As soon as next month, TV screens will light up with ads that state the obvious: cigarettes are “intentionally designed” to be addictive. But this isn’t your typical PSA. Large tobacco companies like Altria and British American Tobacco will be behind the campaigns.
No, the guerrilla marketing tactics of Big Tobacco haven’t stooped to “reverse psychology”…yet. The ads are mandated as part of a two-decades-old DOJ lawsuit, which took aim at tobacco companies for misleading advertising.
And now, they’re paying up.
The 30-to-45 second ads will run five days a week, for a full year, across networks like ABC, CBS, and NBC…and the full campaigns could cost Altria and British American up to $31 million each (talk about a self-inflicted wound).
Good thing these companies have just the thing to take the edge off.
Disclaimer #1: Cigarettes are intentionally designed to be addictive.
Disclaimer #2: Neither Altria nor British American paid for this article.
(BroBible.com)
As soon as next month, TV screens will light up with ads that state the obvious: cigarettes are “intentionally designed” to be addictive. But this isn’t your typical PSA. Large tobacco companies like Altria and British American Tobacco will be behind the campaigns.
No, the guerrilla marketing tactics of Big Tobacco haven’t stooped to “reverse psychology”…yet. The ads are mandated as part of a two-decades-old DOJ lawsuit, which took aim at tobacco companies for misleading advertising.
And now, they’re paying up.
The 30-to-45 second ads will run five days a week, for a full year, across networks like ABC, CBS, and NBC…and the full campaigns could cost Altria and British American up to $31 million each (talk about a self-inflicted wound).
Good thing these companies have just the thing to take the edge off.
Disclaimer #1: Cigarettes are intentionally designed to be addictive.
Disclaimer #2: Neither Altria nor British American paid for this article.
(BroBible.com)
Friday, July 28, 2017
A Grand Tour, Indeed
Amazon's Grand Tour Has Already Racked Up An $11 Million Profit
Though Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, and James May have
morphed into more of entertainers by now, they are still automotive
journalists at heart and journalism is not a field to get into when
looking to make fistfuls of cash. According to AOL UK, that’s not
exactly the case for these three.
It seems that the journalists/entertainers, have managed to rial up the same chemistry that made the BBC’s Top Gear such a smashing success for Amazon’s cameras and attract a hefty audience. By the end of the first season, Amazon managed to pull in £8 million ($11 million) in pretax profit. Once the government got its fair share of the deal, the company took home $8.75 million in profits. One the one hand, that may not sound like a justifiable amount after hearing how much money Amazon invested in the show—take the $250 million invested into the three year contract for 36 episodes as an example or even the grandiose opening scene of the first episode that cost the network $3 million.
(AutoSpies.com)
It seems that the journalists/entertainers, have managed to rial up the same chemistry that made the BBC’s Top Gear such a smashing success for Amazon’s cameras and attract a hefty audience. By the end of the first season, Amazon managed to pull in £8 million ($11 million) in pretax profit. Once the government got its fair share of the deal, the company took home $8.75 million in profits. One the one hand, that may not sound like a justifiable amount after hearing how much money Amazon invested in the show—take the $250 million invested into the three year contract for 36 episodes as an example or even the grandiose opening scene of the first episode that cost the network $3 million.
(AutoSpies.com)
Friday, July 7, 2017
Here's The Numbers To Prove The Point
ESPN Is Making A Goddamn FORTUNE Off People Who Don’t Even Want The Channel
Just how profitable is the pracitice of bundling? According to Streaming Observer, ESPN is making BILLIONS OF DOLLARS each year because of this practice:
(BroBible.com)
Just how profitable is the pracitice of bundling? According to Streaming Observer, ESPN is making BILLIONS OF DOLLARS each year because of this practice:
A recent survey found that 53% of people don’t care whether or not their TV package includes live sports channels, like ESPN and ESPN2 which are included in nearly every basic pay TV package.What kind of fucking world are we living in where a company like ESPN can make $4.5 billion each year off people who don’t even care or want the service? That’s 4.5 billion reasons that the current cable status quo is broken, and 4.5 billion reasons that cord cutting will eventually tear down the cable service provider establishment as we know it.
According to the most recent estimates, 87,349,000 people have ESPN and ESPN2 in their pay TV packages, and those channels make up $8.11 of a pay TV bill (ESPN is $7.21 per subscriber per month, while ESPN2 is charged at a rate of $0.90).
Given that 53% of pay TV subscribers don’t care if they have ESPN or other live sports channels, that means 46,294,970 of ESPN/ESPN2’s subscribers don’t really want the channels. At $8.11 per subscriber, that’s $375,452,207 people are shelling out every single month despite not wanting those channels. That’s $4.5 billion a year!
(BroBible.com)
Wednesday, June 21, 2017
This Is Sad News
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “No soup for you!” –– Soup Nazi. Soupman, the New York soup shop Seinfeld brought into our hearts and home, is now seeking bankruptcy court protection.
(BroBible.com)
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I Ask, Does Anyone Still Care?
Now in its fourth season, there's no end in sight for the Dodgers' TV blackout
There is no end in sight to the dispute between DirecTV and Charter Communications, which inherited the mess when it bought Time Warner Cable. (Charter sells cable service under the Spectrum brand name.)
This is the fourth season of the Dodgers’ television blackout. The team has won the National League West in each of the previous three seasons. Meanwhile the team-owned SportsNet LA channel that carries the games has been unavailable in millions of homes in Southern California that don’t have Spectrum.
How many fans switched to Spectrum in April and May after the 10-game KTLA package?
Charter won’t say.
Charter is pitching Spectrum as the only place to see the Dodgers — “No Spectrum? No Dodgers!” — in its advertising. Are there a lot of Dodgers fans that have not switched?
Yes. The KTLA broadcasts were seen in an average of 105,000 DirecTV households and another 20,000 AT&T U-Verse households — in sum, half again as many households as see an average SportsNet LA broadcast. (AT&T is the parent company of DirecTV.)
Until DirecTV loses a critical mass of subscribers because it does not air the Dodgers, industry analysts say, there is little incentive for the company to pay Charter for the right to carry SportsNet LA.
So none of those Dodgers fans have complained to DirecTV about missing their team on TV?
Sure they have. They might even threaten to switch to Spectrum. But, whether the fans do not actually want to deal with the hassle of changing providers, or whether DirecTV persuades them to stay by giving them free NFL Sunday Ticket or other goodies, the bottom line is that too few have switched to affect DirecTV’s bottom line.
How did the Dodgers get into this mess?
Time Warner Cable agreed to pay the Dodgers a record $8.35 billion over 25 years in exchange for the exclusive right to sell SportsNet LA to other cable and satellite providers. But no carrier besides TWC and Charter agreed to carry SportsNet LA, with DirecTV the most prominent outlet to just say no.
Are the fans stuck with this contract for the next 21 years? Are the Dodgers exploring how they can modify the deal, or walk away from it in search of a deal that would end the blackout?
The Dodgers say it’s premature to conclude this deal doesn’t work if DirecTV won’t negotiate in what the team considers good faith.
(LATimes.com)
There is no end in sight to the dispute between DirecTV and Charter Communications, which inherited the mess when it bought Time Warner Cable. (Charter sells cable service under the Spectrum brand name.)
This is the fourth season of the Dodgers’ television blackout. The team has won the National League West in each of the previous three seasons. Meanwhile the team-owned SportsNet LA channel that carries the games has been unavailable in millions of homes in Southern California that don’t have Spectrum.
How many fans switched to Spectrum in April and May after the 10-game KTLA package?
Charter won’t say.
Charter is pitching Spectrum as the only place to see the Dodgers — “No Spectrum? No Dodgers!” — in its advertising. Are there a lot of Dodgers fans that have not switched?
Yes. The KTLA broadcasts were seen in an average of 105,000 DirecTV households and another 20,000 AT&T U-Verse households — in sum, half again as many households as see an average SportsNet LA broadcast. (AT&T is the parent company of DirecTV.)
Until DirecTV loses a critical mass of subscribers because it does not air the Dodgers, industry analysts say, there is little incentive for the company to pay Charter for the right to carry SportsNet LA.
So none of those Dodgers fans have complained to DirecTV about missing their team on TV?
Sure they have. They might even threaten to switch to Spectrum. But, whether the fans do not actually want to deal with the hassle of changing providers, or whether DirecTV persuades them to stay by giving them free NFL Sunday Ticket or other goodies, the bottom line is that too few have switched to affect DirecTV’s bottom line.
How did the Dodgers get into this mess?
Time Warner Cable agreed to pay the Dodgers a record $8.35 billion over 25 years in exchange for the exclusive right to sell SportsNet LA to other cable and satellite providers. But no carrier besides TWC and Charter agreed to carry SportsNet LA, with DirecTV the most prominent outlet to just say no.
Are the fans stuck with this contract for the next 21 years? Are the Dodgers exploring how they can modify the deal, or walk away from it in search of a deal that would end the blackout?
The Dodgers say it’s premature to conclude this deal doesn’t work if DirecTV won’t negotiate in what the team considers good faith.
(LATimes.com)
Monday, June 19, 2017
Still A Long Way To Go To Get Out Of The Foxhole
U.S. Open TV analysis: Fox’s technology outpaces its announcers
Where Fox still has work to do is with its announcers, which tend to be overexposed during long days, such as the opening rounds of the U.S. Open. Fortunately, there’s a solution, which I’m here to offer.
• One of Fox’s best moments Friday was a terrific little feature in which Zach Reineking, Erin Hills’ director of course operations, explained how the course barters hay for furniture with the local Amish community. The feature was short, it wasn’t intrusive, and it told me something interesting that I didn’t know about the club.
• How long is Fox going to continue the failed Holly Sonders Experiment? Last year I wrote that when Fox anchors say, “Let’s go down to Holly,” my thought is, “Let’s not.”
Bottom line: she stinks on TV. I don’t question Sonders’ golf knowledge. She played Division 1 college golf, so she knows the game. She’s just not cut out for the job.
Sonders was fine five years ago in her very limited role on Golf Channel’s “Morning Drive,” but she’s asked to do far too much at Fox. I think a friend had it right when he said Sonders tries too hard to be a personality (“golf’s Vanna White” was his description). But she’s not a personality. She lacks an easy manner on camera, she’s not spontaneous, and she’s not amusing.
She also doesn’t seem particularly competent. On Friday, in a segment with architect Gil Hanse, Sonders couldn’t bring up a graphic of No. 14. “I have never been friends with this thing,” Sonders said of the machine. “Three years now and I still can’t get it figured out.”
Here’s my crazy, completely off-the-wall suggestion: Remove Holly and put someone in that job who can call up the proper graphic.
(GolfWeek.com)
Where Fox still has work to do is with its announcers, which tend to be overexposed during long days, such as the opening rounds of the U.S. Open. Fortunately, there’s a solution, which I’m here to offer.
• One of Fox’s best moments Friday was a terrific little feature in which Zach Reineking, Erin Hills’ director of course operations, explained how the course barters hay for furniture with the local Amish community. The feature was short, it wasn’t intrusive, and it told me something interesting that I didn’t know about the club.
• How long is Fox going to continue the failed Holly Sonders Experiment? Last year I wrote that when Fox anchors say, “Let’s go down to Holly,” my thought is, “Let’s not.”
Bottom line: she stinks on TV. I don’t question Sonders’ golf knowledge. She played Division 1 college golf, so she knows the game. She’s just not cut out for the job.
Sonders was fine five years ago in her very limited role on Golf Channel’s “Morning Drive,” but she’s asked to do far too much at Fox. I think a friend had it right when he said Sonders tries too hard to be a personality (“golf’s Vanna White” was his description). But she’s not a personality. She lacks an easy manner on camera, she’s not spontaneous, and she’s not amusing.
She also doesn’t seem particularly competent. On Friday, in a segment with architect Gil Hanse, Sonders couldn’t bring up a graphic of No. 14. “I have never been friends with this thing,” Sonders said of the machine. “Three years now and I still can’t get it figured out.”
Here’s my crazy, completely off-the-wall suggestion: Remove Holly and put someone in that job who can call up the proper graphic.
(GolfWeek.com)
Monday, June 5, 2017
Good One, Hot Wheels
Hot Wheels releases Wonder Woman's invisible jet, sort of
To obtain your own invisible jet, you'll have to purchase $20 worth of Hot Wheels cars at Walmart. That's before taxes, too. Then mail your proofs of purchase to Mattel, along with a check or money order for $3.50 to cover shipping and handling. Then in a few weeks, you'll have your own, perfectly invisible "jet." For seriously die-hard fans of Wonder Woman with a good sense of humor, this is a pretty neat piece of memorabilia.
(AutoBlog.com)
To obtain your own invisible jet, you'll have to purchase $20 worth of Hot Wheels cars at Walmart. That's before taxes, too. Then mail your proofs of purchase to Mattel, along with a check or money order for $3.50 to cover shipping and handling. Then in a few weeks, you'll have your own, perfectly invisible "jet." For seriously die-hard fans of Wonder Woman with a good sense of humor, this is a pretty neat piece of memorabilia.
(AutoBlog.com)
Friday, May 5, 2017
A Few Minutes With The Mayor Of Flavortown
Guy Fieri Says He 'Really Don't Give A S**t' What You Think About Him
During the wing-filled interview, [g]uests eat 10 hot wings, each one hotter than the next{.]
(FoodBeast.com)
Chef
and TV Host Guy Fieri has no idea how he became such a high-powered pop
culture icon, and as much love as he gets from his popularity, he gets a
lot of hate too.
To the haters, Fieri said, "I really don't give a shit," while taking First We Feast's Hot Ones chicken wing challenge.
During the wing-filled interview, [g]uests eat 10 hot wings, each one hotter than the next{.]
Within
the interview, Fieri discussed being a meme sensation, Rachel Ray being
gangster, and he even took down all 10 wings without drinking a single
drop of water or milk, something no guest ever does on the challenge.
That is the legend: Guy Fieri.
(FoodBeast.com)
Wednesday, April 12, 2017
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