Cover Stories
Behind the Scenes At
L.A. Screenings 2026
For the past 63 years, the L.A. Screenings — originally called the "May Screenings" —(...)
NEM Sans NATPE
Makes a Splash
It looks like the turquoise hue of Croatia’s Adriatic Sea turned out to be better(...)
The Challenging Doc TV
Business Model Explained
A videoconference interview with Aurélie Reman (pictured), managing director of Sunny Side of the Doc,(...)
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June 2026
Worldwide legacy broadcasters should embrace TV programmers that cater to both Gen Z and Boomer(...)
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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
FIFA’s Infantino Loses Football Privatization
The FIFA-UEFA clash over FIFA's planned privatization of TV and other rights made Gianni Infantino reverse course. Infantino, president of FIFA, the Swiss-based international football organization, had intended to establish a commercial entity valued at $20 billion, into which TV(...)
The End of America’s Monoculturalism
By Dom Serafini In Italy in the 1960s, my father thought of all Americans as one big cohesive group, and, to him, they were better than any other people. They were richer, more worldly, more elegant, more demanding, and(...)
TV Costs Are Decreasing and Increasing
By Dom Serafini Two recent books, both, coincidentally, from Italy, are animating the international TV debate. One, Unbundling Entertainment, was written in English by Giovanni Pedde. The other, Gli scripted format (The Scripted Formats), was written in Italian by Maria(...)
Len Grossi: Hollywood Insider on Going Through TV Eras Seamlessly
Imagine experiencing all of TV’s many changes over the years while working under the same(...)
Bert Cohen’s Worldvision: After Seven Owners, Its Success Became Its Downfall
In his business life, Bertram (later legally changed to Bert) Howard Cohen was an involuntary(...)
John Laing: Crisscrossing The World With a RoboCop Promo Under His Arm
It was a big mistake to ask John Franklin Scott Laing, the founding general manager(...)
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