A fun little rumination in ColoradoBiz on the local baseball club doing the impossible: Knocking Denver’s beloved Broncos way up into fanaticism’s cheap seats.

This latest contribution to Multichannel News offers an examination of an oddity in the U.S. cable television industry - a downturn in revenue from advertising sales. Related sidebar examines the emergence of homegrown video-on-demand programming with an advertising twist.

Nothing sparks the copywriter’s imagination like an image of a border collie. Here’s one of a new series of print ads I wrote for a regional sports network, The Mtn.

It was a high-flying upstart in the early go-go days of high-speed Internet service. Here’s a look at the genesis of @Home Corp. and one of its key backers. From CED Magazine.

Okay, this business feature I wrote for Multichannel News is meaningful stuff if you’re in the business of television advertising and want to know about new and promising ways to infiltrate America’s living rooms with commercials that sort of know who you are. (Scary, eh?) If you’re NOT in that business, well, I’d suggest you skip this one and just go read today’s issue of Slate or something.

As you may know, television’s longstanding transmission standard, something known as NTSC, is going away in 2009. Here’s an ode to its amazing endurance, from the August 2007 issue of CED Magazine.

Former NFL linebacker Bill Romanowski stopped into town not so long ago to talk about supplements, concussions and life in general. Here’s the column I wrote for ColoradoBiz.

Believe it or not, there was a time when phones just rang and rang until callers gave up. But then somebody thought up something called an answering machine. This CED Magazine column goes back in time to talk about its genesis.

John Bandimere Jr., a second-generation drag-strip owner in Colorado, is one of those people you meet about whom you think: “Hmmm. Maybe I was supposed to meet this guy.” You know, in a sort of cosmic-universe way. He’s among the kindest people I’ve interviewed, and somehow in between talking about dragsters and drivers, he snuck in a few enduring life lessons on the sly. Here’s the column from ColoradoBiz.

A mini-profile of the No. 2 executive of the Democratic National Committee, Leah Daughtry, who’s running the 2008 convention from Denver. Published in ColoradoBiz.