Archive for 2020/09


The Emmy Ratings Drop

Viewers 2013-2020 2013: 18 million 2014: 16 mm 2015: 12 mm 2016: 11 mm 2017: 11 mm 2018: 10 mm 2019: 7 mm 2020: 6 mm Twitter You can’t say nobody was home, that there was competition for the flat screen. The truth is we live in an on demand culture and awards shows are […]

MTV 1982-This Week On SiriusXM

Spotify Pandora Tune in tomorrow, September 22nd, to Volume 106, 7 PM East, 4 PM West. Hear the episode live on SiriusXM VOLUME: HearLefsetz If you miss the episode, you can hear it on demand on the SiriusXM app: LefsetzLive

An Artist

Endures negative feedback. Takes risks on a regular basis. Does not create to satiate the audience but themselves. Creates because they need to. Works without the audience in mind. Knows that they will oftentimes be ahead of the audience. Knows to ignore their most vocal critics. It’s usually more about the person who is criticizing […]

How We Got Here

Change happened while we weren’t paying attention, and it started in the seventies. The fifties were a somnambulant decade. Eisenhower was president, boomers’ parents, damaged by the Depression and World War II, put their heads down and built their families, averse to risk all the while, and the issues of minorities were ignored, whether they […]