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The MIP Africa TV market opened on September 1, 2025 on a cool, sunny day in Cape Town, South Africa, where it is the end of winter. But it’ll be (…)

By Mike Reynolds — While the U.S. Television Critics Association (TCA) may not be having its twice-a-year press tours, at least its press members are actually watching TV enough to (…)

In 2025, 91 years after DuBose Hayward wrote Summertime and the Living is Easy (musically arranged by George Gershwin), summer has become a busy month, as VideoAge‘s August/September Issue (…)

The recent passing of Apollo 13 commander Jim Lovell at the age of 97 made VideoAge‘s Water Cooler think of the creativity of the scientists at the NASA Mission Control Center (…)

It seems that major sports in the U.S. are going through some significant changes.

Major League Baseball (MLB) welcomed Jen Pawol as its first female umpire. The Women’s National Basketball Association (…)

If analytics ruined the game of baseball, as a new book by sports reporter Scott Miller, Skipper: Why Baseball Managers Matter and Always Will, tried to demonstrate, could analytics also (…)

Recently, when VideoAge learned that, way back in 2019, execs at Microsoft Japan mandated that no meetings could go longer than 30 minutes, our editors immediately sent out a survey (…)

In the Mip Africa Issue, VideoAge‘s readers will find a book review about a subject that holds special meaning for this TV trade publication. The review is of the new (…)

The message from the political right to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), the umbrella organization that partially funds the U.S. National Public Radio (NPR) and the U.S. Public Broadcasting (…)

According to the Washington, D.C.-based National Association of Broadcasters (NAB), the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) should take no action in regard to a proposal examining whether to expand foreign (…)