All things media future: A little @McKinsey; a lot @VertereGroup. And a pod @GoodSeatsStill! ➡️ More active on Blue!
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Jun 11
In 1969, Congress was considering major cuts to public broadcasting funding until Mr. Rogers calmly explained what he did on his show. They didn’t. Legend.
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Jun 10
Fox Sports is launching an "Always On" 24/7 live stream on YouTube for the entire World Cup
It includes the first 5 minutes of every match and every second half, free, no authentication required.
Iso-cams on Messi and Bellingham coming in the knockout rounds.
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⚽ The World Cup is more than a tournament - it’s a mirror to modern history. "World Cup Fever" author @KuperSimon joins to discuss how soccer’s biggest stage has grown to intersect with politics, money & global power; 🎧 NOW wherever you pod, YouTube or tinyurl.com/yfna9jh6
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with all due respect, this "marketplace" is completely contrived, monopolistic and opaque - so not really sure how much "doubt" is left?
As "clunky" as the ticketing situation has been for the World Cup, JohnWallStreet (@HowieLongShort) Advisor @johnsbrody argues that we all should wait till the event is over to judge FIFA.
"As we ebb closer to the event, I can't say any of us would say we're running a perfect PR machine here, or it's being managed in a way that we would all applaud.
But I also wanna give them the benefit of the doubt, and I wanna see where we end up, you know, a few weeks from now.
It's been clunky to say the, to say the least. I agree with Pat on that. But ultimately, the marketplace decides.
The street decides, and what FIFA's trying to do is trying to gauge the market, and let's judge them when we get to the end.
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Jazz perfection.
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🏇 The Kentucky Derby. The Belmont Stakes. The Breeders' Cup. Horse race announcer Tom Durkin called them all. But his favorite stories might be the ones that happened *away* from the microphone; ➡️ LISTEN NOW wherever you pod, YouTube or tinyurl.com/6n59zutj
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Timhanlon retweeted
Jun 3
Scoop: TV's 'upfront' market appears down, and big networks and streamers have had to push for top dollar on sports even as Madison Avenue wants out of entertainment-focused cable networks....
variety.com/2026/tv/news/tv-… via @variety
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Charlie Ergen is diving into low-power TV through a deal with HC2 Broadcasting—and 5G Broadcast technology is believed to be the real play here.
cablefax.com/distribution/er…
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🏇 The Kentucky Derby. The Belmont Stakes. The Breeders' Cup. Horse race announcer Tom Durkin called them all. But his favorite stories might be the ones that happened *away* from the microphone; ➡️ LISTEN NOW wherever you pod, YouTube or tinyurl.com/6n59zutj
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🏇 Tom Durkin called the Kentucky Derby, the Breeders' Cup, and some of racing's most unforgettable moments. But his greatest story might be his own. ➡️ LISTEN NOW wherever you pod, YouTube or tinyurl.com/6n59zutj
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Timhanlon retweeted
Jun 2
I believe we now have evidence of FIFA's World Cup ticketing shell game: FIFA is colluding with third-party resale platforms for its own supply management.
Look at this SeatGeek map (secondary market!) for Saudi Arabia vs Cape Verde. The circled areas are not random single resale tickets, but large, contiguous blocks of seats: entire rows and swaths in sections 101/102, 112/113, 119/120, 134–137, 139, ...
The blue circles appeared weeks ago, then the purple blocks suddenly showed up a day or two ago, and the red blocks seem to have appeared recently too.
That's not what ordinary fan or even commercial scalper resale looks like who resell pairs, fours, and scattered seats. Instead, this looks like inventory being dumped in bulk onto secondary markets, at prices below FIFA's official site.
Why doesn't FIFA just lower prices on its own site Probably because official price cuts could trigger refund demands, chargebacks, or consumer-protection headaches from fans who already bought at much higher prices.
Instead FIFA keeps official prices high, avoids openly admitting the market-clearing price is lower, and moves unsold inventory through third-party resale platforms instead.
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🏇 The Kentucky Derby. The Belmont Stakes. The Breeders' Cup. Horse race announcer Tom Durkin called them all. But his favorite stories might be the ones that happened *away* from the microphone; ➡️ LISTEN NOW wherever you pod, YouTube or tinyurl.com/6n59zutj
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Timhanlon retweeted
Jun 1
ICYMI: Talk Back to Television: Tim Hanlon, the Vertere Group
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🏇 The Kentucky Derby. The Belmont Stakes. The Breeders' Cup. Horse race announcer Tom Durkin called them all. But his favorite stories might be the ones that happened *away* from the microphone; ➡️ LISTEN NOW wherever you pod, YouTube or tinyurl.com/6n59zutj
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🏇 Tom Durkin called the Kentucky Derby, the Breeders' Cup, and some of racing's most unforgettable moments. But his greatest story might be his own. ➡️ LISTEN NOW wherever you pod, YouTube or tinyurl.com/6n59zutj
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🏇 Before he became horse racing's most famous voice, Tom Durkin was sleeping in his car in between jobs at obscure racetracks; the story of how a precocious Chicago kid/railbird became a broadcasting legend; ➡️ NOW wherever you pod, YouTube or tinyurl.com/6n59zutj
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As far as disco hits go, “Boogie Nights” is untouchable.
“Too Hot to Handle” by Heatwave was released on this day in 1977.
From start to finish, it’s the kind of album that reminds you why this era remains so beloved.
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Timhanlon retweeted
May 29
Pink Lady And Jeff have dropped out of the America 250 celebration.
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May 30
The great Al Hrabosky. It warms my heart to know “The Mad Hungarian” is still crazy after all these years …
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Timhanlon retweeted
May 30
Did you know PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON’s Dad — ERNIE ANDERSON — was the voice of ABC TV from the late 70’s to the mid-90’s.
Here’s a little piece on him.
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