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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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: [...]

Dateline, Saturday, September 6, 2008. 7pm, EDT — Tropical Storm Hanna is making her way up the East Coast and into the New York metropolitan area. Already, the US Tennis Open and the New York Mets games have been postponed. Two-inches of rain is falling … sideways. Winds about 40 mph and gusting. Flash flood [...]