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Miami-based TV Executives Review NATPE Miami
To preview the upcoming NATPE Miami market — set (...)
ATF Market Moves to AI With Room To Catch Up
For the past 20 years, the western international TV (...)
AFM 2020 Review: Virtual 41st Is Bigger Than Live 40th
The 41st annual American Film Market (AFM) took place (...)
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Turkey’s Kanal D Looks Back and Thinks Forward
By Kerim Emrah Turna* When we were making our plans during the last quarter of 2019, we were expecting a tough 2020, but we couldn’t have predicted how tough the year would turn out to be. We began the year in (...)
The Year in Review: VideoAge’s Year-end Summary
The year that just passed will most likely be remembered as the worst year since the World War II period, and almost comparable to the horrid 1915-1919 era when both WWI and the Spanish Flu pandemic raged. Not that 2021 (...)
U.S. TV Nets’ Ratings Go Down, Ads Not So Much
The pandemic has been more equal for some than for others. Case in point: ratings for the major U.S. TV networks have been down, but their ad revenue earnings did not decline in accordance with the relative ratings drops. (Please (...)
Streaming Services: The Writing is On The Wall
"Everyone writes on the walls, but me," read graffiti in ancient Pompeii. We at the Water Cooler feel similarly these days in that it seems like everyone is writing about streaming services but us. Streaming services are blamed for a (...)
December 2020
What has changed and what has not changed. Future known changes. And those we don’t know about yet. The world’s current state of uncertainty has created enough anxiety in the C-suites that analysts are being replaced with fortunetellers. (…)
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My2Cents
Book
My2Cents
Audiobook
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
Joe Wallach: Political Intrigue Did Not Undermine His TV Challenges
When Joseph "Joe" Wallach was working at Brazil's Globo TV (...)
Irv Holender: A Mensch Who Harvests Libraries
And Sells Product Internationally
U.S. film and TV veteran Irving (Irv) Holender began his (...)
Moses Znaimer: A New McLuhan, But With a Mission To Reinvent Television
Moishe (Moses) Znaimer is a media entrepreneur, media executive, media (...)
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