Necessity meet change: Entertainment, Media, and Sports

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This is the author’s one-hundredth column for Sports Radio America.  No additional fanfare here, just getting to work, noting the milestone, continuing to produce...

Finding Facebook’s Formula

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In business, the saying goes you do not need to recreate the wheel. You can find solutions to problems and answers to questions in looking...

Social Media & Streamers Dive into Sports Rights Purchasing

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Social media and streamer purchase of live sports content has been more a journey than a sprint.  Companies like Facebook, Twitter, Amazon Prime, Hulu, and YouTube...

Tech, Data, and You

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Data and analytics pervades nearly aspect of our lives, especially in sports and media and more often now in entertainment.  The NHL now has smart pucks that...

Strictly Content: The better steward of Fox’s assets is Comcast, Disney or…

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Until recently, before Comcast dropped out of the bidding, most of the discussion over the sale of Fox’s entertainment assets centered around who could pay more? Disney won the bidding process and paid $20...
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Netting the Foul Ball Problem

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Has the game of baseball changed over the past 100+ years?  Sure, there have been minor changes to the designated hitter, the length of seasons, postseason...

The Future of Sports Television

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As we cruise through 2018, the entertainment, media and sports industry is abuzz about two things: (1) getting content to the consumer quickly and more efficiently, and (2) through various media applications and platforms. The...
Red Sox pitcher Babe Ruth at Comiskey Park in 1918. (Chicago Daily News / Chicago History Museum)

What can entertainment, media, and sports in 1918-1919 tell us today?

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History is always a great judge.  History is also a great companion to context.  In September 1918, a major pandemic hit the United States. ...
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When will Streamers and Social Media go all-in on Live Sports?

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The 2021 negotiation of the National Football League’s (NFL) sports rights has all but ended.  FOX, CBS, NBC, and ESPN (the networks) are all...
Image courtesy of the Associated Press (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File).

Industry Growth Needs Engagement and Historical Perspective

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The future of entertainment, media, and sports is a foggy one, as are most predictions.  However, consumers and experts alike can glean possible outcomes...