I got word yesterday of the passing of Mark Mandala. For most of you, the name isn’t familiar. For those of you who worked at ABC in the late 1970’s through the early 1990’s, Mark was an unforgettable character. He could be loud, rude, inappropriate (even by the way less PC standards of those days), and scary. Most of the time, he was brilliant, hysterically funny, and a damn fine executive who began to guide ABC through the changes in network TV that began then as cable TV (“who is going to pay for TV – that’s nuts?) became more prevalent. Continue reading
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Third Base
A little bit of snark to start our week, I’m afraid. One thing that continues to amaze me is the absolute vacuousness of much of the programming with which my daughters and their friends spend their time. I get the entire economics thing (Hey! I grew up in the TV business!) and so I have nothing at all against reality programming and even watch some of it. But aren’t some of these folks’ 15 minutes more than up? Continue reading
Filed under Helpful Hints, Huh?, Reality checks, Thinking Aloud
Mom Talks Business
Mothers provide many interesting business lessons, don’t they? I’ll preface this by saying it was a little different 45 years or so ago when I was growing up in that mothers tended to do front-line discipline while fathers were court and, frequently, executioner of last resort. Mothers dispensed pearls of wisdom in between the tears; fathers did the same in between removing their belts (that’s all tongue in cheek, mostly). Continue reading
Filed under Growing up, Helpful Hints
Consult Keith 