Saturday, May 20, 2006

Take it away, Terry

June Gloom came early in Santa Barbara, while the winter rains stayed late. Still, we're going down to this year's AVP Beach Volleyball tournament. (Here's my report from last year's'. And here's the photo set.) Then we're heading over to Paradise Valley, where the fog don't shine.

Meanwhile, I want ya'll to dig the depths (emotional as well as intellectual) of Terry Heaton, who is on a roll (and playing an increasingly important role for what's left of Television) lately.

Start with A lesson in love, then step through Affiliates increasingly left out, The internet is the new "public", Chalk one up for truth in advertising (sales), CBS's Sunday night problem ("Spin, thy name is Les Moonves"), and Arbitron: On demand explodes.

Terry is now headed off to Public TV's Showcase 2006, to which I'm sure he'll bring more perspective and smarts than anybody else in the place. (And that's not a knock on all the other good people there. I just don't know anybody else who makes more, or a deeper, sense of What's Going On in TV.)