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.
May 2025
Two issues are showing up on my turbulence radar screen. Both issues, in my view, will be solved by actions that are beyond the control of the executives that have (…)
A Recycled TV Season Rules
In the U.S. Broadcast Schedule
Go back just five years and there were 56 pilots picked for the U.S. TV season, all hoping to become U.S. hits locally, before turning into hits globally, which many (…)
Mediaverse Explained By
a Legacy Media Executive
Giovanni A. Pedde, author of Mediaverse — The Rise of Decentralized Media, is an experienced media executive with a unique insider’s perspective. After working as an entertainment lawyer in New York (…)
NATPE To Revitalize
CEE Content Market
There are some new developments in the works for NATPE Budapest, considered the premier TV trade show for the Central and Eastern European (CEE) market. This year, most of the screenings (…)
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 (…)
The E.U. Media Freedom Act
Could Be Great if Understood
In 1939, Winston Churchill said, “Russia is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma.” The same can be said in 2025 about the European Union’s Media Freedom Act (EMFA), which technically (…)
The L.A. Screenings
Phoenix Rises. Event Dates
VideoAge’s symbol for this year’s edition of the L.A. Screenings is the phoenix, the mythological bird that rises from the ashes. The Screenings, now in its 62nd year, is scheduled (…)