Did you hear some people were laid off/had their jobs eliminated at Discovery nets? We heard last week, but out of respect for the afflicted and those remaining, we sat on it. C21 actually just picked up the story this morning. Nothing official and details are sketchy as to how many might be leaving, but [...]
About Gary Lico
NATPE 2010 Report
We work the booth all day, with an hour for our annual panel, and a couple of great industry events. Wow! How lucky am I?! Despite all the cliches about where the economy is, how consolidation has changed the business — we’re in a pretty good place right now. Then you pick up the paper [...]
Nice Goin’! Good Move!
MSG, a Cablevision-owned regional sports network has a little challenge during the summer. Their sweet spot is New York sports (hockey’s Rangers and basketball’s Knicks – Cablevision owns them, too). NYC is a 3-sports network town … (locally speaking … not including ESPN and Fox, of course). There’s YES – a Yankees network and SportsNet [...]
Quick Quotes, Notes and Thoughts from Lico
I’ve been keeping a few quotes and thoughts I’ve collected lately that, I think, paint a decent picture of what the world – or at least, important parts of it – are looking at and looking for: Touch Productions, Malcolm Brinkworth – ” …we were looking for ways of decoding the world; showing it in [...]
NATPE Lico Summary: Tales from the Desert
Used to be that the #1 subject coming out of a NATPE, was something like, “What’s hot?” Maybe it was the next talk show, magazine show or some little gem from a corner of the floor. This year, the first question out of people’s mouths was something like, “Whataya think?” As in, “What do you [...]
Why NATPE Still Matters
It’s damned near become a sport in the last few years for many in our business to shake their head and say, “What’s happening to NATPE?” As if the fate of the industry’s singularly inclusive organization is in the hands of some unknown forces or hierarchy. NATPE is really the only group in the biz [...]
Tuscany to You: World Science Congress Part II
Back in the USA after a week in Tuscany, mostly for the World Science Congress (for the other days, see here). The main impetus for attending was the so-called BATTLE OF THE BRANDS, starring Steve Burns and John Ford, both of whom have worked in various positions at various times at National Geographic and Discovery [...]
GET PERSONAL!
First time here at the Science Congress (it has a longer name, but after the chianti, I can’t remember it). It’s a beautiful city, as anyone who has been here will attest to. But it’s also pretty cold this time of year … about like DC in early December. Translation: 40-degrees and rainy. The Congress [...]
Cannes Heat!
It’s a gorgeous week over here! The weather can go a few ways this time of year … hot and humid, cloudy and rainy, but instead, it’s warm, sunny with a bit of a breeze. That’s the weather, now here’s the news: First, “How’s business in the wake of the financial mess?” Good news everybody: [...]
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EVERYONE SAYS THE SAME THING (or THE EMPEROR’S NEW CLOTHES, 2010)
Every year at the Realscreen Summit, the producers represented by our sister company, CABLEready, gather to discuss the various networks we met with during the past few days. Tons of straight talk, speculation, recommendations and – most importantly – sharing. This is the kind of relationship we like to have with and among our program [...]