Michael Grebb

Veteran journalist and business strategist, Grebb spent 14 years at leading industry trade publication Cablefax as Executive Editor and later Publisher overseeing editorial, brand strategy and business development. Grebb has a Bachelor of Science in Journalism from Ohio University and in 2017 completed the Leadership Strategies Course at the Yale School of Management. Grebb currently serves as a member of the Cable Center’s Ambassadors Council.

Maximum Overdrive

Warner Bros. Discovery executives went biz-casual this week (sneakers and all) at a Los Angeles press event to unveil their new “Max” streaming service blending HBO Max and Discovery+ into a significantly retooled app that will launch in the U.S. on May 23. Prices won’t change for the old HBO Max ad-supported and ad-free tiers …

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Roku-peration Pending

Roku’s latest round of layoffs this week reflects continuing pressure on the media landscape, especially when it comes to the advertising market. Roku, like many of its peers, relies heavily on robust ad spend to drive revenue across its Platform division, and last year’s soft scatter market that spurred a 200-headcount reduction at Roku in …

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Roku Gets Smart

In the first unsurprising development of 2023, Roku is finally launching its own smart TV. The question now is whether the company – whose stock is down 80% in the last year and faces myriad challenges – can leverage the news to reinvigorate its hardware business as it copes with an advertising slowdown challenging its …

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Peacock Pride

It’s been a good few months for Comcast NBCUniversal’s Peacock streaming service, which continues to post impressive growth even though its overall subscriber numbers pale next to its big media peers. This week, NBCU CEO Jeff Shell told the UBS conference that the service has reached 18 million paid subscribers, up 20% in only the …

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Bobbing for Apple?  

Cord cutting, the streaming wars, content cost inflation, and advertising pressure continue to swirl under the weight of Wall Street stock declines that have put everyone in a bad mood. It’s not the kind of environment that typically lures rich retirees back into the stress-inducing pressure cooker of the modern content business. But on Sunday …

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