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Point-Counterpoint: Should Paramount Plus Be Thrown Off the Mountain?

In our latest ‘Next Text,’ we don't want to call David Bloom an ignorant anything, but our columnist does try to use his fancy, well-deduced logic to undermine a streaming business with 70 million users

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Netflix's Dan Lin Hire, WBD's Investor Wealth Fire, CNN's Ratings Mire, and 'Dune's' Week 2 Funeral Pyre

Also in this week's 'Next Text,' one of us once again chooses emotion over sound prognostication and picks 'The Holdovers' to win Best Picture

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Plundering Dave Gandler’s (Winnable) Case vs. Spulu, Denis Villeneuve’s Chris Nolan Moment, Chris Nolan’s Disc Dreams, Bob Iger’s Bollywood Hustle … and the Wild Hallucinations of Townes Van Zandt

In this week’s ‘Next Text,’ we further isolate ourselves and make our sense of loneliness and alienation even worse

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Requiems for Roku, Sumner Redstone, Jon Stewart's Career, the Pac-12 ... and Possibly 'Spulu'

Also in this week's 'Next Text,' the country music condemned take David Bloom up on his big 'Americana' recommendation

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Swift Bumps for Truth, Tucker's Treasonous Turn ... and a GOAT Vote for Bob Iger, Greatest Media CEO of Our Generation

Oh yeah, in our latest 'Next Text,' we babble on about the big Disney/Fox/Warner streaming rollup, too

Broadcasting & Cable

Eddie Murphy Gets Etched in Stone on Our ‘Comedy Mount Rushmore‘ While Larry David Pounds Sand; Plus, a Funny Moment From Paramount and a Clownish One From Tom Cotton

‘Motorweek’ called the 1995 Plymouth Neon Sport Coupe a ‘cute little econobox’ that packs a lot of performance for the buck. And the monthly payments were cheaper than an Apple Vision Pro, too. Read our latest ‘Next Text’

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Apple and Devo Hit the Bullseye, Patrick Soon-Shiong and Jay Penske Bite Journalism, FX and Hulu Put the Gold in Golden Age

In this week’s ‘Next Text,’ we also look back at another great week for Netflix

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How Many Signups Did Peacock Just Get? Will Rob Manfred Really End Up Playing Ball Again with Bally? Is ‘Better Call Saul’ Really Chopped Liver? And Does the ‘L.A. Times’ Have Anyone Left to Lay Off?

In our latest ‘Next Text’ we once again plunge headlong into digital disruption, never-ending beefs, ridiculous snubs … and the media machinations of unqualified men

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Imagine Being a Cry Baby Who Thinks They’re Entitled to Free Televised Football

In this week’s ‘Next Text,’ we explore how the social internet blew up when people found out that to watch an AFC Wild Card game, they had to pay $4.99 to simply and immediately sign up for a streaming service that could just as quickly and easily be canceled

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Uncarried! After More Than 4 Dutiful Years and 51 Loyal Billing Cycles, T-Mobile Tells Us to Pound Sand

Also in the latest 'Next Text,' we throw shade on CES, avoidable respiratory infections, SVOD price elasticity and the bleak future of EchoStar

Broadcasting & Cable

What's in Store for '24? FASTs Fall, Par Gets Sliced, Apple Takes a Bigger Bite

In a very special and forward-looking 'Next Text,' if you sarcastically come at David Bloom with the name 'Carnac,' you best not leave out 'The Magnificent'

Broadcasting & Cable

Deep Diving Into Netflix’s Big, Non-Contextualized Data Dump — a Huge Flex or Giant Head Fake?

When Ted Sarandos dumped 6 months of audience data for 18,000 shows in our lap, he was trying to tell us something. This week's 'Next Text' wants to know what that is exactly

Broadcasting & Cable

Why Shohei Ohtani and His New $700 Million Dodgers Deal Aren’t Too Rich For Still Thriving RSN SportsNet LA

In this week’s Next Text, we also discuss why Adam Silver and the NBA should pop the ol’ bubbly on their wildly successful In-Season Tournament

Broadcasting & Cable

One of These Things Is Not Like the Other: Was Florida State's Perfect 13-0 Record Sacked By the SEC's $3 Billion TV Deal With Disney/ESPN?

In our latest 'Next Text,' we ponder college football's playoff travesty, retrans' ratcheted-up rhetoric, Disney's Culture War floggings and a bunch of other stuff that's unfair and just not right

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Forget Amazon’s $100 Million Black Friday NFL Rout, It’s NBC That Paid Too Much for the Real Turkey Bowl

NBC is paying $350 million for primetime Big Ten games this season. And have you seen the audience numbers?

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The Golden Globes Spin on Amid 'Confusing Ownership Do-Si-Do'

Our latest ‘Next Text’ explores Hollywood’s confounding FYC monopoly … and the end of ‘The Awards Industrial Complex’

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Is the Superhero Movie Craze Finally, Mercifully, Sunsetting?

In our latest Next Text, we ponder what the biggest Marvel Cinematic Universe bombing ever means to the video business

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Is 'Yellowstone' Now a Bigger Franchise For Paramount Than 'Star Trek'?

In our latest 'Next Text,' we ponder the value of the California-loathing uber-producer Taylor Sheridan in the era of Bob Bakish's 'hard bundle'

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Scripps (Surprisingly) Puts ATSC 3.0 on the Back Burner With Its New Tablo OTA DVR ... But Grant Hall, the Exec Behind the Gadget, Says NextGen TV Is Still Part of the Longer-Term Plan

'It's just the first product -- it doesn't mean that we're ignoring or not doing ATSC 3.0,' Hall tells Next TV

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Roku's Chris Larson: ‘We've Spent $1 Billion a Year on R&D For the Last 15 Years. You’re Not Going to Spend $200 Million and Catch Us in Six Months’

In a wide-ranging Q&A with Next TV, Roku's global TV chief reiterates his company's position that consolidation is coming to TVOS and the barrier to entry is sky high

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