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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

Broadcasting & Cable · Mar 17, 2024

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

Broadcasting & Cable · Mar 10, 2024

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

Broadcasting & Cable · Mar 3, 2024

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

Broadcasting & Cable · Jan 28, 2024

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

Broadcasting & Cable · Jan 21, 2024

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

Broadcasting & Cable · Jan 15, 2024

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 · Jan 8, 2024

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 · Dec 26, 2023

ATSC 3.0: Everything You Need to Know About the Broadcast Industry's 'NextGen' Technology Standard

The new over-the-air technology standard is still coming … we think

Broadcasting & Cable · Dec 20, 2023

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 · Dec 17, 2023