Morning Glory < 30 Seconds
September 16, 2020
By Cliff Oxford
Are You Sure Hank Did It This Way? (NBC)
Daily Deal—Not exactly rhinestone suits and cowboy boots but live tonight at the Grand Ole Opry will be Taylor Swift performing “Betty” and premiering her new album, “Folklore,” at the 55th Academy of Country Music Awards.
Swift’s first return in seven years and “Betty” has been at top of Billboard 200 for six consecutive weeks, tying Whitney Houston. We got to get over it. Country music fans were Swift’s early adopter. Business.
Has anybody capitalized more on one hit, “You'll Think of Me,” and one wife, Nicole Kidman, than Keith Urban, who will host the ACM awards ceremony held at Opry Ryman Auditorium¹ and Bluebird Cafe.² Iconic. Ken Burns’ documentary on country music pushed the genre to a new level but ironically it didn’t include Taylor Swift—that would be a five-part series itself. By the way, they threw tradition a bone with Trisha Yearwood.
Hold that Slack PO—Zoom invests in big messaging upgrade in challenge to Slack.
“Last Week Tonight with John Oliver” renewed at HBO for three seasons. It seems “Business Daddy,” Oliver’s pet name for WarnerMedia parent company AT&T, ponied up and didn’t make it complicated as they do with ease everything else.
Straight from McDonald’s mouth and public statement to defy plastic burger myth—“In the right environment, our burgers … could decompose.” Reassuring.
MLK/FBI documentary that premiered Tuesday at the Toronto Film Festival will be released January 15, 2021, ahead of the Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday and the hope is to factor in the Oscar race. New evidence and declassified docs show a tragic deep well of surveillance against the best leader we had in 20th century.
Side Deal—Highlander Partners acquired Hilo Nutrition, a Columbus, Oh.-based maker of nutritional gummies.
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IPO Glow—Allegro and anything that grows. So-called Solutions drinks like sleep beverages are coming down the pike with no revenue.
Entries/Exits—GNC Holdings, a U.S.-based vitamins retailer, cancelled its bankruptcy and plans to proceed with a sale to China’s Harbin Pharmaceutical Group Co.
Bonus—Here is the most understated, underrated question that we should ask customers every chance we get.
Thanks, Mona! 
Cliff Notes
1 Opened in 1892, the Ryman was the Carnegie of the South before the Grand Ole Opry live radio and TV show began in 1943 with acts like Elvis, Marty Robbins, Minnie Pearl, and Patsy Cline.
2 A 90-seat Nashville venue where iconic songwriters and artists perform
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