ShopTalk | TV Trends Happy New Year, Happy Trails By Erik Sorenson on Jan. 11, 2010 - 12:00 AM It’s the start of another year and for those of us in the media industry, 2010 is likely to be better–and certainly, more exciting, than 2009. CES blew through Las Vegas last week, headlining the fact that mobile compu ...
ShopTalk | TV Trends Trying to Stay Positive Four Weeks in a Row By Erik Sorenson on Nov. 24, 2009 - 12:00 AM This month–in the spirit of the upcoming holidays–I committed to posting a series of positive blogs about the traditional network powers. To be honest, it was pretty easy to be positive for one day, but a whole month h ...
ShopTalk | TV Trends Giving Thanks at Fox & The CW By Erik Sorenson on Nov. 17, 2009 - 12:00 AM Bloggers, present company included, can be so negative. In the spirit of Thanksgiving–just days away–I have been dedicating the November editions of Remote Control to being, uh, positive. It’s so easy to bemoan t ...
ShopTalk | TV Trends Trying to Stay Positive By Erik Sorenson on Nov. 10, 2009 - 12:00 AM Last week – in the spirit of the upcoming holidays and year-end – I committed to posting a series of positive blogs about the traditional network powers. To be honest, it was pretty easy to be positive for one day, but ...
ShopTalk | TV Trends Scrooge-Free Zone By Erik Sorenson on Nov. 3, 2009 - 12:00 AM Bloggers, present company included, can be so negative. In the spirit of Thanksgiving–suddenly just around the corner–I’d like to dedicate the next few editions of Remote Control to being, uh, positive. It’ ...
ShopTalk | TV Trends The Push We Needed By Erik Sorenson on Oct. 26, 2009 - 12:00 AM I am always looking for a silver lining. To a fault, some say. And I’ll confess, it’s been hard to find anything “good” about the current economic conditions and the widespread carnage in the media industry ...
ShopTalk | TV Trends Letterman’s Trials: Is the Worst Still Ahead? By Erik Sorenson on Oct. 13, 2009 - 12:00 AM Monday is media day for The New York Times business section, which prominently features the usually thoughtful and always clever David Carr and his column called “The Media Equation.” In the most recent edition, Carr&# ...
ShopTalk | TV Trends Distractions Everywhere By Erik Sorenson on Oct. 6, 2009 - 12:00 AM As if working at (or near) one of the Big Three traditional television companies wasn’t stressful enough, several Swords of Damocles have emerged recently to hang over the heads of the denizens at CBS, NBC and ABC. At ABC, i ...
ShopTalk | TV Trends The Shrinking World of Broadcast Television By Erik Sorenson on Sep. 30, 2009 - 12:00 AM The new TV Season is just getting underway, but already there are perennial warning signs of further, potentially deep erosion in the audience watching the biggest network shows. Over the most recent weekend, “Desperate Hous ...
ShopTalk | TV Trends Reactions to Obama’s Saturation Strategy By Erik Sorenson on Sep. 23, 2009 - 12:00 AM Tuesday in this space we asked for feedback on the question of whether President Obama’s saturation bombing of the TV “air waves” is helpful to his agenda–or not. It is true that most of our emails–we ...