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Where live production is heading, what is working in practice, and what leadership looks like when the show is on air.
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Three Kinds of Judgment in the Control Room
Governance was never a single dial. In a control room it’s a signal path: a rule that doesn’t ask permission, an alarm that says look here, and a person who owns the consequence.
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Nobody Asked for the Shot That Won the Night
What people ask for tells you where to start looking, not where to stop. The gap between a request and the real need is…
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The Cap Comes for the Control Room
College sports just got a salary cap. Everyone is arguing about what it does to athletes and athletic directors. I want to talk about…
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The New Core Skills Were Always the Core Skills
The skills that make someone effective in AI-native work — clear intent, rich context, honest feedback, critical listening — turn out to be the…
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The Ceremony Was Never the Point
AI-native teams are tearing up Scaled Agile — some by burning every ceremony, some by keeping them all. Both are missing it: the ceremony…
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The Upfront Is Dying, and Your Portfolio Plan Is Next
The broadcast upfront locked a year of ad inventory against a forecast that hadn’t happened yet — and streaming killed it. Annual portfolio planning…
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The Bottleneck Always Moves
When we went tapeless, the constraint didn’t disappear — it moved from the machine to the people instructing it. The intent for the show…
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What’s Actually Earning Its Keep, AI and Innovation
Every new tool wants a seat on the crew bus. Here’s my honest scorecard of which ones have actually earned it — and which…
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What the Demo Doesn’t Show You
The cloud production demo always works. But the demo is climate-controlled — and live is not. The right questions start where the demo ends.
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What’s Actually Earning Its Keep
Enough hype — here’s my honest scorecard of where AI is delivering real value in media operations right now, and where it isn’t yet.…
