Let me go ahead and say this right off the top: Claws is f**kin’ fire.  I know I’ve climbed to mountaintops and screamed similar things about other shows in the past, but I am truly enamored with Cl... read more

“Our drug dealer knows more about television because all he does is watch television,” Donald Glover told the audience at a recent New York City screening for Emmy voters of his FX comedy Atlanta.  ... read more

Some media executives are daunted by perpetual disruption and are unsure of how to proceed.  Disney Media Networks Co-Chairman and Disney/ABC Television Group President Ben Sherwood says look to nat... read more

You never know when a chance encounter will set the stage for changes throughout your entire life.  For Burton Jablin, Chief Operating Officer at Scripps Networks Interactive, it happened when he wa... read more

At last week's IRTS Newsmakers Panel, I closed the session with a warning that we are likely to be facing a general economic downturn in the next several months, and that both media agencies and pub... read more

The TV Upfronts have been a "rite of spring" in the advertising community since the 1960's.  Each year, for one week in mid-May, hundreds of media buyers and their clients get entertained, fed and h... read more

The title refers to a book at a media agency hospitality suite last week. As Cannes is not for presenting and assessing big data, but for collecting nuggets across disparate disciplines (“small data... read more

We have analyzed trends associated with the use of television alongside commercial share trends for national media owners in the United States through the end of the calendar month of May 2017 (cove... read more

If you have the opportunity to attend a football game at Eastern Kentucky University in Richmond, KY, you'd be visiting Roy Kidd Stadium, named after long-time EKU Head Football Coach Roy Kidd, who ... read more

Catherine Warburton, Chief Investment Officer for MDC Media Partners, joined me for an exclusive pre-Upfront interview, in which she focuses on advice to guide network TV and other media sellers as ... read more