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L.A. Screenings Indies ’25 Under the Lens

The independent portion of the L.A. Screenings 2025 concluded on Friday, May 16, following a two-day run at the newly “adopted” 12-story Roosevelt Hotel, which, for the first time in (…)

By |May 19th, 2025|Categories: WaterCooler|0 Comments

The New Business Model of IFE

It is estimated that the “Big Four” U.S. airlines (Delta, American, United, and Southwest) combined boast some 525,000 TV screens on their planes. Delta Airlines, for example, has 165,000 back-seat (…)

By |May 15th, 2025|Categories: WaterCooler|0 Comments

Hollywood Tariffs: Fuggedaboutit!

The idea of the Hollywood tariffs that U.S. President Donald Trump wants to apply to non-American-made movies is clear. Their implementation is difficult. Plus, suggesting federal incentives to a DOGE (…)

By |May 12th, 2025|Categories: WaterCooler|0 Comments

May Issue of ‘VideoAge’ Under the Sign of the Phoenix

VideoAge‘s symbol for these L.A. Screenings 2025 is the phoenix, the mythological bird that rises from the ashes of its predecessor, due to the fact that January’s Los Angeles County (…)

By |May 8th, 2025|Categories: WaterCooler|0 Comments

The AI Future Needs Philosophers

A recent report from New York City-based management and consultancy company Korn Ferry explained that “70 percent of chief executives say they expect someone from their level to be ousted (…)

By |May 5th, 2025|Categories: WaterCooler|0 Comments

Cashless Society a Boon for Streaming

According to a new book, The Power of Cash by Boston University professor Jay Zagorsky, cash should be people’s preferred method of payment — not credit cards. This book is (…)

By |May 1st, 2025|Categories: WaterCooler|0 Comments

TCA’s Demise: An Observer’s Inside View

Gone are the long-ago “glorious” days of the Television Critics Association (TCA), who welcomed all traditional U.S. TV channels, as well as U.S. cable and independent TV outlets, to their (…)

By |April 28th, 2025|Categories: WaterCooler|0 Comments

Advertising Going Immersive

After recently confronting “Attack Ads” in these digital pages, VideoAge is now looking at “Immersive Marketing,” which is closely associated with the XR (Extended Reality) market.

The “Attack Ads” practice started (…)

By |April 24th, 2025|Categories: WaterCooler|0 Comments

TV Money Inequity in U.S. Baseball

Large payoffs for television rights to selective teams is changing the nature of sports, especially baseball, and it hasn’t anything to do with the “torpedo bats” (newly shaped, high-performance bats (…)

By |April 21st, 2025|Categories: WaterCooler|0 Comments

TLN Media Group in Patient Care

Together with philanthropist Joseph Vitale, TLN Media Group (TMG) has financed the establishment of a chair dedicated to a Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery Center at the University of Toronto’s (U (…)

By |April 17th, 2025|Categories: WaterCooler|0 Comments