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Showing posts with label television. Show all posts
Showing posts with label television. Show all posts
Saturday, March 9, 2024

Can't see sports, Oscars without channel-bundle subscription you don't want? Let regulators know

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Gencraft I filed a comment today with the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice regarding the Disney-Fox-Warner sport stream...
Thursday, September 14, 2023

U.S. Soccer, FIFA lose antitrust appeal; defense shows short-sighted strategy to develop soccer in America

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Cristiano Ronaldo plays for Real Madrid against Barcelona in 2011. Jan S0L0 via Flickr CC BY-SA 2.0 U.S. Soccer and the Fédération Internat...
Friday, August 18, 2023

KTAL: Federal judge started in TV at fresh-faced age 14

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Age 16, Morris S. Arnold wields a TV camera in 1954. Photo owned by Judge Arnold. Senior U.S. Circuit Court Judge Morris S. Arnold appeared...
Tuesday, September 20, 2022

UK orders commission to study women's football; rising TV prices warn of commercial monopolization

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Karen Carney in 2019 (James Smed CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons ) The UK has announced "an in-depth review into the future of domest...
Saturday, August 13, 2022

NBC resists TV free market, overcharges U.S. viewers: PL football costs $20 in Canada, $70 in United States

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Each year, I become freshly enraged at the cost of seeing Premier League football in the United States, a ready example of antitrust non-enf...
Sunday, July 10, 2022

Star Trek's latest voyage to 'strange new worlds' charts a 'final frontier' evocatively close to home

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"In Defense of Episodic TV," read the headline on a story by Associated Press journalist Ted Anthony last week about Star Trek: S...
Thursday, July 7, 2022

Qatar drops beIN sport piracy claim as World Cup nears

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Sideline interview with beIN (Ronnie Macdonald CC BY 2.0 via Flickr ) Qatar withdrew its complaint in April in the World Trade Organization...
Friday, January 28, 2022

Breyer's tastiest torts, Disney's perspective problem play Paramount late night with Colbert, Noah

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Late Show monolog mock-up On Wednesday, Paramount's late-night television kindly obliged my classroom teaching with two legal reference...
Monday, August 23, 2021

Netflix's 'The Chair' satirizes academic politics with troubling truths of contemporary campus culture

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Netflix's The Chair is an enjoyable six-episode sit com on the absurdity of academic politics in American higher education today.  The ...
Wednesday, June 2, 2021

Arts school awards BFA to creative talent in film, TV; 'Schitt's Creek' creator Levy says, 'follow through'

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Last week, my daughter was awarded a well earned bachelor of fine arts degree by the film and television program at the Savannah College o...
Sunday, February 21, 2021

Covid court backlog, solved: 'Night Court' returns

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I've been reading about how courts are struggling to overcome coronavirus backlogs in their caseload.  To me, the answer is obvious.  I ...
Monday, February 1, 2021

See America in black and white

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13th Amendment With the imprimatur of federal law , today is National Freedom Day , celebrating the day that President Abraham Lincoln signe...
Monday, January 25, 2021

'For the first time, we're seen as we should be seen,' Martin Luther King Jr. told Star Trek's 'Uhura'

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Prepping the spring semester when classes start the day after an involuntary furlough is prone to put a particular professor perpetually a ...
Thursday, January 21, 2021

'Horace and Pete' captures American moment

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In our fast-paced platinum age of TV, a show foregone is too often vanished in the void, maybe a gem to be unearthed by a future socio-arch...
Sunday, November 15, 2020

'Oh, the lawyers'

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From A Late Show with Stephen Colbert , Nov. 12, 2020: Stephen thanked everyone who made 1,000 shows possible.
Saturday, October 24, 2020

Shop Shatner and don't ask too many questions

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William Shatner, 2016 ( Gage Skidmore CC BY-SA 2.0 ) I'm a pretty big William Shatner fan.  James T. Kirk was my favorite TV captain...