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Next Text: As DirecTV and Dish Try to Seize the Remains of the Day, Does It Even Matter? This week, we also ponder faster streaming gadgets, how AI is raising the dole and the dead ... and just who sucked out the feeling?

USC vs. Michigan — Next Text: If You Like Football, You've Once Again Got to Pay $100 a Month For TV In this week's column, we also look at the WNBA's big (and NBC's infinitesimally small) ratings wins, we finally switch over to Threads ... and we examine the power of the New York TV market

Next Text: Showcasing the Brilliance of David Zaslav? Our weekly back-and-forth also looks at the big Disney-DirecTV deal, Synamedia's 'Senza' cloud-based streaming dongle ... and the terrifying Big Ten fate of the once-proud UCLA football program

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Forget Amazon’s $100 Million Black Friday NFL Rout, It’s NBC That Paid Too Much for the Real Turkey Bowl

By Daniel Frankel, David Bloom published 27 November 23

NBC is paying $350 million for primetime Big Ten games this season. And have you seen the audience numbers?

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The Golden Globes Spin on Amid 'Confusing Ownership Do-Si-Do'

By Daniel Frankel, David Bloom published 20 November 23

Our latest ‘Next Text’ explores Hollywood’s confounding FYC monopoly … and the end of ‘The Awards Industrial Complex’

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Is the Superhero Movie Craze Finally, Mercifully, Sunsetting?

By Daniel Frankel, David Bloom published 13 November 23

In our latest Next Text, we ponder what the biggest Marvel Cinematic Universe bombing ever means to the video business

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Is ‘Yellowstone’ Now a Bigger Franchise For Paramount Than ‘Star Trek’?

By Daniel Frankel, David Bloom published 5 November 23

In our latest ‘Next Text,’ we ponder the value of the California-loathing uber-producer Taylor Sheridan in the era of Bob Bakish’s ‘hard bundle’

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At 247 Million Subscribers and Counting, They'll Never Catch Netflix Now

By Daniel Frankel, David Bloom published 22 October 23

In our latest 'Next Text,' we discuss how the incumbent media companies lost their will to build scale and compete with Netflix ... and why they may never get another chance to try again

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Why David Zaslav Is Going to Pass on Warner’s Shot to Renew NBA Rights — The Next Text

By Daniel Frankel, David Bloom published 9 October 23

Also, why HBO-like highbrow dramas and comedies will end up being just one more thing Apple and/or Amazon control

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Is the NFL Getting Too Pricey? This Week’s Next Text

By Daniel Frankel, David Bloom published 25 September 23

Also, did Rupert Murdoch end up taking a wild ride he never wanted to get on? And why did ‘Winning Time’ have to end?

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Broadcast Networks Roll Out Another Bereft Fall TV Season: ‘Those Stable Geniuses Have Strip-Mined Their Biggest Revenue Generator’ — This Week’s ‘Next Text’

By Daniel Frankel, David Bloom published 17 September 23

We say let Byron Allen buy the ABC O&Os, this ‘entrepreneurial TV-first dude just might locate a pony in the pile of poo’

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