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Writer: @Forbes, @NextTMT. Speaker, Moderator, Consultant. #music, #film, #tech, #games, #art, #sports. Narrative always wins. Tell your tale.

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Long-time journalist for a range of daily newspapers in Memphis, Amarillo, Dallas and Los Angeles, as well as with Red Herring and Variety. A decade as an executive handling communications strategy for MGM, USC Marshall School of Business and a range of clients. Now handling social media, podcasting and some writing for Deadline.com, online news site focused on the entertainment business

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Huge World Cup Ratings Set Up Streaming Bidding War For 2030, 2034

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By David Bloom
| Forbes Verified
(Photo by Dursun Aydemir/Anadolu via Getty Images) Anadolu via Getty Images With just a handful of games left in this year’s FIFA World Cup men’s soccer championship, record U.S. ratings are setting up another intense “tournament” with global implications, as major tech and media companies consider bidding for TV rights to the tournament’s 2030 and 2034 installments.
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Midweek report: Netflix's binge era goes bust, and awards-bereft Paramount gets ready to show Emmy darling Warner Bros. what the term 'hacks' really means

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By Daniel Frankel Verified, David Bloom
| Next TMT
Presented by Next TMT Talks We chat about that looong wait between Netflix seasons, the expensive competition Fox is about to face for World Cup rights, and also what’s Microsoft going to do now with Xbox? Just over two years ago, as it began to fear saturation in the “total global addressable market” for streaming, Netflix announced that it would no longer report metrics focused on quarterly subscriber growth.
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Late-night comedy creates a new home on YouTube, and the stars finally align for that long-awaited DirecTV-Dish gray marriage

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By Daniel Frankel Verified, David Bloom
| Next TMT
Next TMT Talks: All those editors who told us to leave the Wall street angle for the finance pubs? They were all very wrong. Charlie Ergen and EchoStar’s long, torturous exit from the 5G wireless business — and perhaps, also a long-awaited trip to the alter with DirecTV — took another step forward last week with a “voluntary, prepackaged Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing” in Houston by the company’s Dish DBS unit.
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