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International Air Travel Rendered Difficult By Incompetence

By Dom Serafini

Outside of the misinformation and disinformation brigade at Fox News, the whole world seems to know of the trouble caused to air travelers and airlines (…)

By |February 2nd, 2010|Categories: WaterCooler|Comments Off on International Air Travel Rendered Difficult By Incompetence

Hollywood: Center of The World Used As Reference For Time

By Dom Serafini

Let’s make a case for a Hollywood Standard Time. The world needs a more modern way to reference time. In 1884, 41 delegates from 25 nations (…)

By |January 26th, 2010|Categories: WaterCooler|Comments Off on Hollywood: Center of The World Used As Reference For Time

FCC Wants Spectrum Back, U.S. B’casters Protest

By Erin Somers

On June 11, 2009, the U.S. became among the first 10 countries to complete the transition to digital broadcasting television (DTV). A handful of European countries (…)

By |January 19th, 2010|Categories: WaterCooler|Comments Off on FCC Wants Spectrum Back, U.S. B’casters Protest

Latin America at NATPE: Jose Antonio Espinal, Raphael Correa Netto, Susan Bender

By Erin Somers

To weigh in on where the Latins stand at this year’s NATPE and what areas of the region are poised to take (…)

By |January 12th, 2010|Categories: WaterCooler|Comments Off on Latin America at NATPE: Jose Antonio Espinal, Raphael Correa Netto, Susan Bender

Road to NATPE: Take Five With Irv Holender, Thomas Sitrin

With NATPE 2010 less than three weeks away, buyers and sellers alike have their fingers crossed that a successful market will set the tone for (…)

By |January 5th, 2010|Categories: WaterCooler|Comments Off on Road to NATPE: Take Five With Irv Holender, Thomas Sitrin

Road to NATPE: Take Five With Gary Lico and Duccio Donati

As 2009 winds down, TV buyers are focusing on the New Year and the new programming budgets that will come with it, while sellers are wrestling with sales (…)

By |December 29th, 2009|Categories: WaterCooler|Comments Off on Road to NATPE: Take Five With Gary Lico and Duccio Donati

Happy Holidays To All

Even something as relentless as the Water Cooler is taking a break to wish everyone happy holidays. To those who celebrate the holidays for religious purposes and (…)

By |December 22nd, 2009|Categories: WaterCooler|Comments Off on Happy Holidays To All

Fear of Rupert Murdoch Gets Canadians All Riled Up

By Dom Serafini

It’s pronounced Globalive, but for some Canadians it is written Murdoch! This seems to be the root of the fight between the Canadian government and (…)

By |December 16th, 2009|Categories: WaterCooler|Comments Off on Fear of Rupert Murdoch Gets Canadians All Riled Up

The Ideal Airline Service for Int’l TV Execs

By Dom Serafini

During a one-week, 35,000 km journey that included stops in France, Germany, Singapore, Italy and New York City, I had time to think about an ideal (…)

By |December 8th, 2009|Categories: WaterCooler|Comments Off on The Ideal Airline Service for Int’l TV Execs

Air France’s High-Flying A380 Didn’t Deliver

By Dom Serafini

And on the fifth day it failed.

What was meant to be a memorable seven-hour flight to Munich via Paris became a 14-hour ordeal on the new Air (…)

By |December 1st, 2009|Categories: WaterCooler|Comments Off on Air France’s High-Flying A380 Didn’t Deliver