Blessed husband/father, Buckeye/Reds fanatic. Founder/CEO @ 1903 Group + Author of Screen Wars and State of the Screens.
Alexandria, VA
Joined April 2008
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I am incredibly grateful to everyone who supported my book launch last week. We hit best seller on Amazon and exceeded my wildest expectations.
None of this would be possible without you!!!
screenwarsbook.com/
Michael Beach retweeted
sports media maestro @Ourand_Puck on the networks getting $$$ from political ads airing during big games
"Every network executive I spoke to reported that political ad revenue this October is essentially double what it was four years ago."
puck.news/sports/2026/10/how… @PuckNews
Michael Beach retweeted
The most expensive midterm election cycle in history has been very, very good for the linear TV business, especially when there’s a game on.
More from @Ourand_Puck: puck.news/sports/2026/10/how…
Michael Beach retweeted
Smallest TV markets to have a team win the World Series.
1. Milwaukee, 2026 (Market No. 38)
2. Kansas City, 2015 (Market No. 31)
3. Cincinnati, 1990 (Market No. 29)
4. Kansas City, 1985 (Market No. 28)
Michael Beach retweeted
Cable ad revenue falling steadily since its peak in 2016. stateofthescreens.com/p/amer… via @michaelbeach
Michael Beach retweeted
Really nice feature by Tom Rinaldi on Charley Steiner
In 2024, long-time @Dodgers announcer Charley Steiner had his broadcasting dream disrupted by a single word: cancer.
Tom Rinaldi tells the story of Steiner’s fight to return to the job he loves.
Michael Beach retweeted
With the demise of the RSN channel bundle monopoly business, those green local revenue wedges are shrinking fast.
Leagues hope national revenue can grow to make up the difference, just as one national bidder (WBD) has left the bidding.
Michael Beach retweeted
Why are offices empty during a boom? One reason is that our fastest-growing companies employ far fewer people per dollar of revenue.
OpenAI and Anthropic generate about 3× more revenue per employee than Apple or Meta. And even Big Tech employs fewer people per dollar than it used to. The result is robust business growth and modest headcount growth.
Michael Beach retweeted
A millionaire by 32.
A billionaire by 55.
Calls it a career at 96.
What a legend.
Michael Beach retweeted
Barry Melrose came across as every man because, before we knew him as an NHL coach, he was the everyman.
Outstanding article to read on Melrose from the January 8, 1986 Toronto Star.
Michael Beach retweeted
despite his obvious bias for OSU, this is another great friday read from @michaelbeach . Apparently the BIG10 is billing more $ than the SEC for less eyeballs. stateofthescreens.com/p/the-…
Michael Beach retweeted
the simplest way to be happy is to have a to-do list.
so many people are overly stressed about things that they have not done yet because they try to keep their to-do list in their working memory.
if you offload your working memory to a to-do list, you will reduce stress by over 50%. if you do not believe me, just try it in earnest.
Michael Beach retweeted
We tell young people in our society that end of the rainbow is retirement at 65.
We ought to tell them that "there is going to be this short but beautiful golden window from roughly age 3 to roughly age 12 where your kids are not only easy (comparatively to bottles & diapers), but are going to be these beautiful little creatures and it will pain your heart to be away from them for too long. So, prepare in your 20's, financially and career wise, to build that flexibility into that chapter of your life".
You don't get another shot at living the "golden window". And, for me, leaning hard into that golden window has made everything else in my life feel fairly insignificant in comparison. I have made plenty of mistakes as a father, but what I won't have is the regret of having been distracted and absent from these formative years. In some cases, that has required financial sacrifices (declining a particular career opportunity that would have required relocation), but I personally have zero regrets.
I also hear from some ambitious & successful people with a 4 year old that say "I've lost my ambition, I am so immersed in fatherhood". At least for me, and a number of my friends, it comes back. You can't keep an ambitious person down and if you have the fire, hanging at a playground on too many Tuesday afternoons is going to feel like torture after too long.
My three boys are approaching 13, 11 & 9, and it's much different than 7, 5 & 3. This summer, for example, they slept until 11am and I hard an unencumbered 6am-12pm to work (being on PT helps), then got another great window 7-11pm, but was able to be present in the heart of the day, then weeks when they were at basketball camp, etc. It gets easier, your time frees up again (there's a sadness to that too), but I'm back to working as intensely as I did pre-kids just because my day to day presence requires fewer hours than it did before (also, my wife is just superbly wonderful). And that is the beautiful gift of entrepreneurship (or at least my sort of business), the ability to deliver still a high level of output but work that around your life rather than the opposite.
TLDR, grind before, and grind after. Prepare for the golden window.
Michael Beach retweeted
Mark Walter has been looking for cash to fund billions of dollars in loans for months, and he isn't just trying to sell his sports assets.
According to @Ourand_Puck, Mark Walter engaged Charter Communications to see whether the company wanted to exit its local TV deals for the Lakers and Dodgers several years early in exchange for a lump-sum payment, but those talks went nowhere.
The Dodgers currently have one of the best local TV deals in sports — 25 years, $8.35 billion for an average of $334 million annually — but Walter was willing to exit the deal early in exchange for upfront cash today.
That's crazy.
