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What The Demise of WCBS-AM Means To Everyone In Media

On August 26, 2024, WCBS-AM will no longer exist. Even after writing about media change for more than 15 years, that sentence didn’t seem real as I was typing it. It’s tough to come up with an analogy to fit this situation. A corporation emerging from bankruptcy has killed the nation’s first all-news radio station. … Continued

30 Years Later, New Change Confronts Local Media

This space is being used to write about the TV business again because what’s going on in that industry is prompting questions in this direction almost every day. At the same time, it brings me back 30 years to the day when I was preparing to move 700 miles South to work full-time in the … Continued

Can’t Watch The Game? Blame Everyone.

It would be so much easier to explain why the regional sports TV networks owned by Sinclair division Diamond Sports known to viewers as “Bally Sports” aren’t on Comcast, the giant cable company known to its remaining customers as “Xfinity” if there was someone to root for other than the baseball team you can’t watch … Continued

It’s Not Too Early To Consider 2025

It’s the time of the year when communicators are starting to think about plans for 2024. But if you really want to understand the media business, it’s important to look ahead to 2025. The commercial local TV business already is. From what we’re hearing, the large corporations that own the most local stations are forecasting … Continued

Unhappy Days For ABC Signal More Change

In the media business, who owns what is of primary importance, but it’s often not obvious unless you pay close attention. Local media outlets, for example, are almost all owned by conglomerates, but play up their local brands or, in the case of TV, their legacy network ties. The same goes for those legacy networks, … Continued

“Breaking News”: A Media Company Communicates In Crisis

In the media business, when the media company itself becomes the focus of news, the corporate suits tend to do what makes the company’s journalist employees’ eyes roll. It’s almost always some version of “we don’t comment on personnel matters.” It rarely follows the fundamentals of effective external or internal communication. But this story is … Continued