ABC and Cablevision Miss A Golden Opportunity
Day has dawned and both sides swerved to avoid a collision in the game of corporate media chicken that I wrote about yesterday.
This from the trusty WSJ e-mail news alert service:
Walt Disney and Cablevision struck a deal late Sunday to end their financial feud, restoring Disney’s New York-area ABC station for millions of homes less than 15 minutes after the start of the Academy Awards broadcast.
In doing so, both companies missed a huge opportunity to, however inadvertently, teach millions of northeasterners that they could live without the Oscars. An enlightening unintended consequence of their business spat was, alas, not to be.
The winner of this year’s Oscar for obsessive interest in things trivial and distracting from the myriad problems that we face…… is us.
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