When Time Warner's Turner Broadcasting unit puts on its annual upfront event in New York Wednesday morning, they'll do so with one sure revenue draw they didn't expect to tout so soon... until last week. Their sure draw, in this case, subtracts one sure draw from CBS and its broadcast affiliates, whose mothership hits ...
Author: Simon Applebaum
Simon Applebaum is producer/host of Tomorrow Will Be Televised, the radio program all about TV. Tomorrow runs live Mondays and Fridays at 3 p.m. Eastern time, noon Pacific time on www.blogtalkradio.com, with replays available at www.blogtalkradio.com/simonapple04. A weekly TV series edition will soon premiere on the new UBC-TV network.
About Simon Applebaum
Simon Applebaum is producer/host of Tomorrow Will Be Televised, the radio program all about TV. Tomorrow runs live Mondays and Fridays at 3 p.m. Eastern time, noon Pacific time on www.blogtalkradio.com, with replays available at www.blogtalkradio.com/simonapple04. A weekly TV series edition will soon premiere on the new UBC-TV network.
Tomorrow Will Be Televised: New Observations from the Passing Parade
on 4.7.13
***Roger Ebert had an agenda full of projects when he passed away last week at age 70. One of them: launching a Kickstarter campaign for a weekly TV series comeback. If Ebert saw crowdfunding as a way to bring TV programming about, you better believe many others do. We'll never see what Ebert could have accomplished with ...
Tomorrow Will Be Televised: The Superstation That Can Finally Be Super
on 3.21.13
When superstations were created in the late 1970s, a trio of then-independent broadcasters let outside entities use cable operators and satellite transmission to build a national viewing constituency. Atlanta-based WTBS-TV was first out of the gate and, under Ted Turner, became the leader of this pack. WOR-TV was the New ...
Tomorrow Will Be Televised: Observations From the Social Media Week Passing Parade
on 2.28.13
Thousands of people in New York, Miami and nine other cities worldwide came together for Social Media Week last week. A few personal takeaways from the NY portion follow: ***Count New York Times media columnist David Carr in the growing camp of smart TV believers. At one of the opening events last Tuesday, Carr (joined ...
Tomorrow Will Be Televised: House of Smart
on 2.4.13
Some time from now, we may remember February 1, 2013 as opening day of a new TV era – and not for the reason immediately coming to mind right now. For some, Netflix's premiere of House Of Cards last Friday is memorable as the first major scripted TV series commissioned by a Web site to gain superlative reviews, even ...
Tomorrow Will Be Televised: Be On the Lookout For New
on 1.6.13
This is the week where in TV land, 2013 gets into high gear. The annual International CES happens in Las Vegas, with more than 150,000 people expected, while TV critics across the country travel to Los Angeles for their annual winter meet with programmers. As this pair of events gets underway, here's a collection of ...
Tomorrow Will Be Televised: The Kudos of 2012
on 12.25.12
What made this year of television notable, one way or another, notable for me? Let's count a few of the ways... Best ongoing broadcast TV series: Modern Family (ABC) Everything about this comedy gets smarter, more inventive and truer to life season after season. The comedy standard-setter and breaker for this still ...
Tomorrow Will Be Televised: What I Learned From 2012:The Nutshell
on 12.17.12
We could fill many columns with extensive analysis on the assortment of memorable developments from the TV scene this year, but let’s boil it down to just one over what you should take away from 2012. The takeaways below, for sure, come from one vantage point, and you're welcome to accept them, or create your own. Feel ...
Tomorrow Will Be Televised: No Solidarity for Sandy
on 11.6.12
When a crisis of such scope as 9/11, Hurricane Katrina or the Haiti earthquake impacts us, all the major broadcast networks come together and pitch us to do likewise for fellow human beings through hour-long, commercial-free fundraising specials. They raise millions of dollars for charities able to do the most good at the ...
Tomorrow Will Be Televised: Latino TV: Let’s Get Busy
on 10.9.12
Three decades ago, only one Spanish-language network was on the air (Univision, then known as Spanish International Network), and it was a huge deal for them to land a national advertiser like McDonald's or Kraft, because the majority of national advertisers didn't see the point of representation among the population of ...
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