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Who Won The Big Sony-Netflix Film Deal?

The theme of the week is โ€œcontextโ€. For the second week, Netflix is spending hundreds of millions of dollars for film rights. To put that in context requires “ent-splaining” everything from โ€œcontent arms dealersโ€ to โ€œportfolio theoryโ€ to โ€œPay 1 theatrical filmsโ€. (And if you donโ€™t know what those terms

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The Odds and Ends of the NFL Media Rights Deals

Last week, the NFL media rights story went from โ€œpotentialโ€ to โ€œactualโ€ news. (The latter happens, the former is rumors.) Not to toot my own horn, but I wrote last week that the Disney-NHL deal would set the template for the NFL deal (and all future rights deals). And I

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Earnings Reports Galore

Last weekโ€™s news was notable for how much โ€œlots of news with no newsโ€ that came across my inbox.ย  In other words, part of me thinks that following the news closely last week probably resulted in more misunderstanding than wisdom. Which weโ€™ll get to, but first, a few companies reported

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An Aggressively Moderate Take on Coronavirus and Sports

On Wednesday sports in America made their triumphant return! โ€œThe MLS Is Backโ€ tournament declared that, well, the MLS is back. This follows the June return for most of European soccer, starting with the Bundesliga and continuing to the English Premier League, the most popular global sports league. Yet not

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A Lionsgate/Starz Check-in

Hereโ€™s why this weekโ€™s column is late. I started writing a Tweet thread, and then it went long. So I moved it to this column. Then that went so long, so I moved it to its own post. (Fingers crossed Wednesday.) So Iโ€™m starting from scratch midway through the weekend.

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Here Comes the Retailers

If you own a retail company, you know what you should do? Enter the TV business. In the glorious tradition of electric companies and liquor salesmen, now the big box and online retailers are entering the biz. Here come the retailers! Other Contender for Most Important Story of the Week

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