TV and media’s new normal is so abnormal.

If these were summary points of TVREV coverage 10 years ago, we’d have said this is all too dystopian and futuristic to be true.

Yet here we are:

• Disney just paid a billion to have its IP manipulated by OpenAI.

• There is a Game of Thrones war for Disco Bros. The only sure things are movie theaters will be different, Saudis will own a piece, and another shoe will drop. Here’s how to decode it.

• Meanwhile, the biggest CTV ad streamer -YouTube- pays $0.00 for Disco’s content rights and controls a massive part of the audience experience— why aren’t more pundits quantifying the YT reach and time spent?

• It’s no secret local broadcasters are merging into politically motivated mega media companies, but who had The CW as a key chip on that bingo card?

• TV News orgs are now constantly tip-toeing around and/or blatantly kowtowing to Trump. As the fortifications of the 4th estate crumble, will CNN tip the scales of media consolidation?

• People are getting their news from social algorithms funded and manipulated by foreign adversaries, bots and AI deep fakes—leading to hate, numbness of society and a dystopian feel to culture, (and some genuinely hilarious stuff). But yet, we can’t figure out how to get great chatbots for TV viewing?

• Pinterest, a place for creating visual collections, is getting into performance TV (advertising)?