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Next Text: Showcasing the Brilliance of David Zaslav?

Our weekly back-and-forth also looks at the big Disney-DirecTV deal, Synamedia's 'Senza' cloud-based streaming dongle ... and the terrifying Big Ten fate of the once-proud UCLA football program

Broadcasting & Cable · Sep 15, 2024

Is It Finally Time to Blow Up the Pay TV Bundle Once and For All?

Also in this week's 'Next Text,' we ponder what the Internet has taken from us ... as we look to surrender to AI

Broadcasting & Cable · Sep 8, 2024

Disney and ESPN Treat Us All Terribly, and It's a Problem

Also in this week's 'Next Text,' we ponder the new Gotham Sports App, The Trade Desk's entry into the TVOS biz ... and a new creative vision for Hollywood films

Broadcasting & Cable · Sep 2, 2024

Is Premium VOD a Bad Thing for the Video Business?

Also in this week’s ‘Next Text,’ we ponder Apple’s 72 Emmy noms … and its 71 total viewers. We also look at improved streaming UX, and we discover this TV show called ‘Lost‘

Broadcasting & Cable · Jul 22, 2024

Why We Can’t Be Bothered With TCA Anymore

Also in this week’s ‘Next Text,’ we ponder AMC’s long, slow march to irrelevance, the power of bundles, and Mario Gabelli’s quest to put Shari Redstone in a fishbowl

Broadcasting & Cable · Jul 15, 2024

Why That Peacock-Paramount Plus Rollup Seems Inevitable

Also in this week's 'Next Text,' we poke 'The Bear' to see if it's been vastly overrated, we ponder YouTube's lofty valuation ... and we review a shifty review from a certain Hollywood trade

Broadcasting & Cable · Jul 8, 2024

Why the NFL Probably Won't Pay More Than a Dollar of That $4.7 Billion ‘Sunday Ticket’ Verdict

Also in this week’s ‘Next Text,’ we look at Robot Al Michaels, lament presidential golf swings, weigh spending three hours on Kevin Costner’s ‘Horizon’ … and laud Jay Penske’s, er, activism in the Middle East

Broadcasting & Cable · Jun 30, 2024

Can ARPU-Minded Charter Maintain Its Customer Service Edge?

Also in this week’s ‘Next Text,’ we recall our willfully ignorant moments stumbling through TV history on the WB lot under Jamie Kellner … and we try to figure out why Netflix is getting into popcorn

Broadcasting & Cable · Jun 24, 2024

Is Charles Barkley's Retirement Declaration Believable … or Bluff?

Also in this week's 'Next Text,' we examine the Rube Goldberg workings of Skydance's doomed Paramount purchase, Lakers owner Jeanie Buss' unseemly ghosting of NBA GOAT Jerry West, and some cool trinkets from Apple's World Wide Developers Conference

Broadcasting & Cable · Jun 16, 2024

MVP-Less NBA Finals See TV Ratings Crater at a Conspicuous $76 Billion Moment

Also in this week’s ‘Next Text,’ we watch the Clippers on TV for the first time ever in June, we try again to figure out how Shane Gillis has an audience … and that’s before Netflix’s ‘Hit Man’ sends us down a Richard Linklater rabbit hole

Broadcasting & Cable · Jun 9, 2024