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 (…)
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 (…)
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 (…)
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 (…)
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 (…)
Television: Music Biz’s New Savior
By Karen Ruttner
Having spent nearly 10 years working in and around the music industry, I’m used to hearing complaints about the business being dead. Since the advent of (…)
Consumers Will Gladly Pay For Good Content on Internet
By Bob Jenkins
I am the sort of guy everyone dreads of running into in a bar. No, I am not a drunk, and yes, I always dig deep when (…)
Dom Serafini and History Don’t See Eye to Eye
By Norman Horowitz
Dom is not always wrong, but he is at least wrong some of the time, and now is “some of the time… .”
He wrote in his Water (…)
Free Speech Amendment Could Silence It
By Dom Serafini
It is possible that a documentary, or Hollywood in particular, may change the course of American history. In the U.S. today, anyone can “buy” a politician, legally and (…)