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The E.U. Media Freedom Act
Could Be Great if Understood

In 1939, Winston Churchill said, "Russia is a riddle, wrapped in (...)

The L.A. Screenings
Phoenix Rises. Event Dates

VideoAge’s symbol for this year’s edition of the L.A. (...)

Moving Talent from Social
Media to OTT, Legacy Media

Below is a transcript of a podcast with Bianca (...)

February 2025

TV outlets keep multiplying with SVoD, AVoD, and FAST. The number of quality TV production keeps dropping. Overall, advertising money keeps increasing. Linear TV outlets continue to be profitable. And yet, the content distribution industry is crying in unison: “No one is buying.” What gives? (…)

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History of Prix Italia through the pages of VideoAge (PDF version)

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TCA’s Demise: An Observer’s Inside View

April 28th, 2025|0 Comments

Gone are the long-ago "glorious" days of the Television Critics Association (TCA), who welcomed all traditional U.S. TV channels, as well as U.S. cable and independent TV outlets, to their press tours. The networks took three days each and always (...)

Advertising Going Immersive

April 24th, 2025|0 Comments

After recently confronting "Attack Ads" in these digital pages, VideoAge is now looking at "Immersive Marketing," which is closely associated with the XR (Extended Reality) market. The "Attack Ads" practice started in the early 20th century with tobacco ads, and (...)

TV Money Inequity in U.S. Baseball

April 21st, 2025|0 Comments

Large payoffs for television rights to selective teams is changing the nature of sports, especially baseball, and it hasn't anything to do with the "torpedo bats" (newly shaped, high-performance bats design). Big financial TV deals are creating a huge financial (...)

Bert Cohen’s Worldvision: After Seven Owners, Its Success Became Its Downfall

In his business life, Bertram (later legally changed to Bert) (...)

John Laing: Crisscrossing The World With a RoboCop Promo Under His Arm

It was a big mistake to ask John Franklin Scott (...)

Joe Wallach: Political Intrigue Did Not Undermine His TV Challenges

When Joseph "Joe" Wallach was working at Brazil's Globo TV (...)