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Swift Bumps for Truth, Tucker's Treasonous Turn ... and a GOAT Vote for Bob Iger, Greatest Media CEO of Our Generation
By Daniel Frankel, David Bloom published
Oh yeah, in our latest 'Next Text,' we babble on about the big Disney/Fox/Warner streaming rollup, too

Eddie Murphy Gets Etched in Stone on Our ‘Comedy Mount Rushmore‘ While Larry David Pounds Sand; Plus, a Funny Moment From Paramount and a Clownish One From Tom Cotton
By Daniel Frankel, David Bloom published
‘Motorweek’ called the 1995 Plymouth Neon Sport Coupe a ’cute little econobox‘ that packs a lot of performance for the buck. And the monthly payments were cheaper than an Apple Vision Pro, too. Read our latest ‘Next Text’

Apple and Devo Hit the Bullseye, Patrick Soon-Shiong and Jay Penske Bite Journalism, FX and Hulu Put the Gold in Golden Age
By Daniel Frankel, David Bloom published
In this week’s ‘Next Text,’ we also look back at another great week for Netflix

How Many Signups Did Peacock Just Get? Will Rob Manfred Really End Up Playing Ball Again with Bally? Is ‘Better Call Saul’ Really Chopped Liver? And Does the ‘L.A. Times’ Have Anyone Left to Lay Off?
By Daniel Frankel, David Bloom published
In our latest ‘Next Text’ we once again plunge headlong into digital disruption, never-ending beefs, ridiculous snubs … and the media machinations of unqualified men

Imagine Being a Cry Baby Who Thinks They’re Entitled to Free Televised Football
By Daniel Frankel, David Bloom published
In this week’s ‘Next Text,’ we explore how the social internet blew up when people found out that to watch an AFC Wild Card game, they had to pay $4.99 to simply and immediately sign up for a streaming service that could just as quickly and easily be canceled

Uncarried! After More Than 4 Dutiful Years and 51 Loyal Billing Cycles, T-Mobile Tells Us to Pound Sand
By Daniel Frankel, David Bloom published
Also in the latest 'Next Text,' we throw shade on CES, avoidable respiratory infections, SVOD price elasticity and the bleak future of EchoStar

What's in Store for '24? FASTs Fall, Par Gets Sliced, Apple Takes a Bigger Bite
By Daniel Frankel, David Bloom published
In a very special and forward-looking 'Next Text,' if you sarcastically come at David Bloom with the name 'Carnac,' you best not leave out 'The Magnificent'

Deep Diving Into Netflix’s Big, Non-Contextualized Data Dump — a Huge Flex or Giant Head Fake?
By Daniel Frankel, David Bloom published
When Ted Sarandos dumped 6 months of audience data for 18,000 shows in our lap, he was trying to tell us something. This week's 'Next Text' wants to know what that is exactly

Why Shohei Ohtani and His New $700 Million Dodgers Deal Aren’t Too Rich For Still Thriving RSN SportsNet LA
By Daniel Frankel, David Bloom published
In this week’s Next Text, we also discuss why Adam Silver and the NBA should pop the ol’ bubbly on their wildly successful In-Season Tournament

One of These Things Is Not Like the Other: Was Florida State's Perfect 13-0 Record Sacked By the SEC's $3 Billion TV Deal With Disney/ESPN?
By Daniel Frankel, David Bloom published
In our latest 'Next Text,' we ponder college football's playoff travesty, retrans' ratcheted-up rhetoric, Disney's Culture War floggings and a bunch of other stuff that's unfair and just not right
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