As we begin the Labor Day weekend, the signs of summer coming to an end are all around. Most students are back to school already. College football has already started with Thursday night games. Many travelers are getting in a last trip (and hopefully the radios will be working at all airports). Plus, many folks will be hitting the beach for the last time, all before the summer of 2025 takes its last bow.| tvnd.micro.blog
This past Monday afternoon, Sinclair Broadcast Group President & CEO Chris Ripley sent an all-hands email telling the employees that “our Board of Directors has begun a process to explore strategic opportunities for the Broadcast division and to evaluate a possible separation of our Ventures division.” The email went on to explain how “this review is about unlocking new opportunities through innovation and scale” and about how the company has expressed in the past “the standalone va...| tvnd.micro.blog
We recently came across a Substack post that introduced us to an interesting concept. It’s called “compression culture,” and the TL;DR is that we, as a society, have come to value brevity more than depth. That in our always-connected, information-on-demand, perpetually switched-on world, we have replaced knowledge and understanding with information overload. We have tuned our attention span to be minimally focused at all times. To attempt our best Rod Serling impression as he might open...| tvnd.micro.blog
The Friday Odds and Ends| tvnd.micro.blog
The Friday Odds and Ends| tvnd.micro.blog
Our assumption is this: our invitation to the annual gathering of media moguls happening in Sun Valley this week was lost in our overstuffed email inbox. Probably in there along with our still missing invite to the recent Sanchez-Bezos nuptials in Venice. Maybe that spam filter in Outlook is working a bit too hard sorting out the emails offering us countless “work-from-home” opportunities to become “rich and famous.” Can we just say how much we miss Robin Leach in times like these?| tvnd.micro.blog