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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 Biggest AI Challenges in the U.S.

August 21st, 2025|0 Comments

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 in 1970 who were forced to solve a life-threating problem (...)

Splintering Sports TV Offerings in the U.S.

August 18th, 2025|0 Comments

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 (WNBA), whose biggest draw is the white player Caitlin (...)

Can the Logic of Analytics Be Applied to TV Ads?

August 14th, 2025|0 Comments

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 ruin today's data-driven TV media? In baseball, the analytic era (...)

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 (...)