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The Little Known Aspects
of Public Domain Films
For over 30 years Texas-based distribution company Reel Media (...)
Affiliates: An Inscrutable TV
Model Key to U.S. Networks
Since the beginning, the foundation of the U.S. television (...)
The Weight of the Peso
on Argentina’s TV Biz
Would Argentina’s TV sector replace successful Turkish dramas with (...)
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January 2024
We must all be impressed by the resilience of the middlemen that not even the mighty U.S. studios were able to eliminate — starting with movie theater owners and cable TV/satellite TV providers. (…)
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International TV History
History of the American Film Market
History of the L.A. Screenings
History of MIP-TV (Plus, MIP-TV 2003 under SARS, Iraq War, Industry consolidation and recession)
History of NATPE
History of MIFED (in Italian)
History of Prix Italia through the pages of VideoAge (PDF version)
L.A. Screenings Veteran
Luncheons Through The Years
Bookshop
Int’l TV Distribution
Hall of Fame Vol. 2
Social Media Sites are Publishers, Not Messengers
By Dom Serafini Justice Samuel Alito summarized the Social Media position before the U.S. Supreme Court (here paraphrased): "You say it's like the Miami Herald (or any other newspaper), and the States say it's like a telegraph company that just (...)
Road to MIPTV 2024
All signs point to renewed vigor for markets leading up to and following MIPTV. It all started with the two Miami TV trade shows (NATPE and Content Americas, with a cumulative 3,500 participants), followed by Berlin's EFM (which had some (...)
Hollywood Braces for “Below the Line” Strike
By Mike Reynolds Hollywood seems to like sequels on small and large screens, but 2024 may see a very different kind of sequel — and not a very pleasant one, at that — off screen, in the form of another (...)
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 (...)
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