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ABC, Cablevision, and the Price of Arrows

March 9th, 2010

Don’t go into the living room, Mom and Dad are fighting again.
Those of you outside the New York area probably missed the excitement, but ABC went off the air for several hours on Sunday, vanishing from LCD screens while the clock ticked down to the Oscars. The disappearance was a negotiating tactic in the [...]

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Hollywood, Your Job Just Got Easier

May 28th, 2009

Behold, one of the strongest forces in nature: the iron-clad grip of popular fiction.
The page-turner, the blockbuster, the serial drama that sends us diving for the DVR — they sink their hooks into our fleshiest bits, and keep piercing until they hit daylight on the other side. Having witnessed my Dad get a fishing [...]

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