Speaking of cord cutting, LB’s been using this sneaky little route to financial, um, equilibrium, for years. Well, the last few months anyway. We’re happy to pass it on to you:
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: There are too many subscription services—so many, in fact, that you might even forget that they’re silently siphoning away your funds.
More cord cutting news for all you crazy, zany refugees from the tyranny of satellite and cable TV, from Luke Bourna at CordCuttersNews.
The central issue this week is whether or not cord cutting saves money. Over the past year, both sides – The Should-Yous and the Shouldn’t-Yous – have shown us conflicting figures for comparison, but to us at TVWriter™ it seems clear that the answer is – it depends on exactly how much access you want to how many different channels. Needing an extensive sports package, for example, can change the entire price structure no matter which way you go.
THE USUAL NOTE FROM LB: From the summer of 2002 to the spring of 2010, Gwen the Beautiful and I were the proud and often exhausted owners of a beautiful Ozarks property we called Cloud Creek Ranch.
In many ways, the ranch was paradise. But it was a paradise with a price that started going up before we even knew it existed. Here’s another Monday musing about our adventure and the lessons we learned.
Oh, and if y’all detect any irony, please believe me when I say it comes straight from the universe and not your kindly Uncle Larry B.
by Larry BrodyWelcome to the latest installment of The Writers Who Are Tired And Won’t Take It Anymore Guild of America v. The Association of Talentless Agents.
The good news last week was that UTA (that’s a talent agency) co-president Jay Sures asked WGA West president David A. Goodman to please, please, please come back to the bargaining table and Mr. Goodman accepted, which means, at least theoretically, that various injustices and ways to correct them already are, or soon will, discussed by the aggrieved and aggrieving parties.
Read all about this particular occurrence HERE
Happy Day After Memorial Day everybody!
Hope you’ve had a great weekend. Time now for TVWriter™’s latest look at our most popular blog posts and resource pages during the week ending yesterday. They are, in order: