Because they’re mass in a niche world. The irony is they’re on CBS, the aged “Tiffany Network” that appeals to alta kachers. Supplying adolescent programming to adults is like asking them to ride hoverboards or get tattoos. At best, the Grammy telecast is a train-wreck drive-by for the almost retired to discuss around the water […]

Is all publicity good publicity? It was a strange game, since the NFL’s ratings were resuscitated by the Chiefs and their passing attack, and this contest was fought on the ground, until the Rams realized that going to the air was their only chance of victory and then Brady aired it out and put the […]

Netflix makes hits. Streaming music services do not. The latest example of this is “You.” A failure on Lifetime, it’s a viral success on Netflix. As of two weeks ago, 40 million households had partaken of an episode within a month of “You” launching on Netflix. On Lifetime, it barely broke a million. Proving, once […]

Sure, Billy McFarland is a sociopath and a crook. But everybody working for him wanted to get paid. And everybody who bought tickets to the festival wanted to live the dream. This is not a music business story, even though it was first depicted as such. The movie is about what a bad guy Billy […]