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 [...]

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As a self-proclaimed TV junkie and foodie, I think my heart skipped a beat when, last week, I attempted to tune into Paula Deen and, instead, was confronted with a chipper voice reading aloud Cablevision’s statement against Scripps network for choosing to pull Food Network and HGTV from its lineup.
After self-medicating in a half-gallon of [...]

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Note: Ed Hersh is currently the SVP of Strategic Planning at Investigation Discovery. Formerly, he was the founder and Chief Creative Officer of StoryCentric, a programming/production consultancy providing insights to both networks and content creators. His experience as an executive and producer includes Court TV, A&E, and ABC News.
In my consultancy, StoryCentric, I worked with [...]

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Every father wants the best for his son.  Good health, a great family, a big house.  And, a fantastic job.  My dad was no different.  Corporate executive, high powered banker, maybe a lawyer.  Major league ballplayer, preferably for the New York Yankees would have been great.  Naval officer with a degree from Annapolis was pretty [...]

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I have two different types of relationships with cable networks: There are the networks I turn to for one hour a week to watch the one show I love, like my new fave MAD MEN on AMC or the classic PROJECT RUNWAY on Lifetime. Then, there are the networks I can watch no matter [...]

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Last week, I found myself in the fortunate position of being able to travel “on location” to a television show shoot. Not only did I get to casually throw around cool television terms such as “on location,” I got to drive an SUV packed full of equipment 15 hours across the country, memorize two [...]

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It’s summer, which means that it’s the doldrums of the television universe. Much like a heat wave, television programming these last couple of months is flat, stifling, and well, makes it a little hard to breathe.
I’ve compiled a list of my favorite (and well, not-so-favorite) summer programs. But I’d love to hear from [...]

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It was clear that the most pressing question David Jenkinson, C21 Media’s Editor-in-chief and managing director, had for forum attendees was, “is there money to be made in developing video content for the Web?” The attendees were each pressed to give their perspective on this and share the business models they’ve setup to protect their [...]

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C21 did a deft job of bringing together some very accomplished, influential and interesting speakers to their first ever Social Media Forum. I left with my interest in this space being affirmed and further stirred.
So what is social media? Opening keynote speaker Ann Longley, digital strategy director at Mediaedge:cia, defined social media as those digital [...]

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I’m in no way a saint; I’ve been accused on a few occasions of having a trucker’s mouth.   But I’m taken aback by the amount of foul language that has made it into primetime TV these days.  Gordon Ramsay takes the top prize for most-swears-per-second, though Fox bleeps him.  But it doesn’t take [...]

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