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January 2025

Streaming is a content-delivery model that is now replicating legacy media’s losing content-delivery model in an effort to finally find success.

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November-December 2024

International TV trade publications are closing down in the U.S., Europe, and Asia, while many Canadian trade mags have been reduced to online-only. But in Latin America, they’re thriving.

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October 2024

A formula for all: Starbucks, cable TV network operators, and cable systems must learn to deal with a changed consumer environment.

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August-September 2024

After surviving 100-plus years, legacy media is in trouble because it was led down the wrong path by deep-pocketed tech companies.

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By |August 26th, 2024|Categories: My2Cents|Tags: |0 Comments

June-July 2024

Bad sound only affects streaming TV series — not shows broadcast on linear television channels. Despite this being a well-known problem, some streamers don’t seem to want to solve it.

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By |June 17th, 2024|Categories: My2Cents|Tags: |0 Comments

May 2024

The EV fiasco was predictable and serves as a cautionary tale for streamers. Forcing an untimely dismantle of the linear model and pushing for a premature adoption of an on-demand model will only generate more losses, more mergers, and more layoffs.

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By |May 7th, 2024|Categories: My2Cents|Tags: |0 Comments

April 2024

Incompetence masquerading as personal truth might be beneficial to one’s health. Too many truths, however, could cause agita.

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By |March 29th, 2024|Categories: My2Cents|Tags: |0 Comments

January 2024

We must all be impressed by the resilience of the middlemen that not even the mighty U.S. studios were able to eliminate — starting with movie theater owners and cable TV/satellite TV providers.

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By |January 9th, 2024|Categories: My2Cents|Tags: |0 Comments

December 2023

Pity the journalists trained in traditional TV, who, after the COVID pandemic, have to face a Viral Media landscape that has changed the ballgame, the playing field, and the rules.

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By |November 24th, 2023|Categories: My2Cents|Tags: |0 Comments

November 2023

The general press tends to look into the writers’ rooms instead of the C-suites to understand the “Big Changes [that] Are Coming to Hollywood” (as reported by the Wall Street Journal). C-suite execs were caught by surprise by the challenges posed by streaming platforms. People with common sense and those in the E-suites (trade Editorial) knew otherwise, and had been pointing out streaming’s pitfalls for years.

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By |November 8th, 2023|Categories: My2Cents|Tags: |0 Comments