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Hollywood’s Star Power Still
Attracts International Buyers

All in all, an estimated 750 international buyers gathered (...)

Luxury Brands Should
Favor TV Advertising

Summer is here, but for most media executives in (...)

Foreign Media Ownership In
The U.S. May Be Possible

From the very start, the United States has always (...)

June-July 2025

Happy talk shows, temps measured in Celsius, football (soccer) coverage, and a desire to make money are useful ingredients to revive U.S. broadcast television. (…)

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The Series Craze Continues with IGSF

June 23rd, 2025|0 Comments

Italy has chosen to jump on the series mania bandwagon, creating its own Italian Global Series Festival (IGSF), which opened its premier event on Saturday, June 21, in the beach-town resort of Rimini. Considering that the IGSF announcement was officially (...)

An Old Idea Now in Use, But Not Widely

June 19th, 2025|0 Comments

By Dom Serafini On April 14, 1998, I wrote in the Italian financial daily, Il Sole 24 Ore, that RAI, Italy's state-owned broadcaster, should replace each of its three TV channels' directors with day-part (or time segment) directors, and asked, (...)

TV Advertising’s New Biz Model

June 16th, 2025|0 Comments

How can a company transform its product from a simple trademark into a brand and then an icon? A hint could come from the idea that "products are bought, brands are chosen," but, still, how can even that middle status (...)

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 (...)