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The other day Glenn Britt, the chief executive of Time Warner Cable, got on the wrong side of history. He stuck with the television networks. On Monday he spoke out against Dish Network’s “Auto Hop,” which allows viewers to avoid the lifeblood of the TV ecosystem: ads. As Brian Stelter of the New York Times reported (emphasis added): Mr. Britt said that if such ad-skipping became more prevalent, the reduction in ad revenue would be made up through higher subscriber fees or a lower total amount of production of television. It got me to thinking. Maybe scaling back should be a promise instead of a threat. Television doesn’t serve social and cultural needs as it did generations ago, but what we get from it should ... Continue reading →

Most Recent Articles On Memo Pad More Articles By STILL WORKING IT OUT: In February, Suzanna Andrews had a red-hot story on her hands. Just as the Leveson Inquiry had restarted hearings on News Corp.’s hacking scandal, Andrews had a profile of Rebekah Brooks in Vanity Fair with all the makings of a Hollywood thriller. Gene Kirkwood, the producer behind “Rocky” and “Get Rich or Die Tryin,’” saw the potential for another movie about a tough-as-nails slugger, and two months ago approached the writer to develop it as a biopic. The news on Monday of a deal to option the story was the kind of announcement that the Condé Nast Entertainment Group was supposed to brag about, capitalizing on a much-discussed piece from one of ... Continue reading →

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