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Freely TV Could be Expensive For Some

By Mike Reynolds

The BBC, along with fellow U.K. broadcasters ITV, Channel 4, and Channel 5 are banding together to form Freely, a free streaming service. The channel will be available (…)

By |May 6th, 2024|Categories: WaterCooler|0 Comments

Feeding TV Folks is of Concern to France

By Mike Reynolds

Television crew and talent from around the world that will be attending the upcoming Olympic and Paralympic games, set for July 26-August 11, 2024 in Paris, have no (…)

By |May 2nd, 2024|Categories: WaterCooler|0 Comments

The Problems With Data

Data is now the new gold standard for the entertainment biz. There are “data rooms” and “data executives” popping up all over the corporate aisles. All major decisions seem to (…)

By |April 29th, 2024|Categories: WaterCooler|0 Comments

WSJ Reporter’s Freedom in a Tug of War

On Friday, March 29, 2024, The Wall Street Journal left a large portion of its front page blank under the headline, “His Story Should Be Here,” the paper’s way of (…)

By |April 25th, 2024|Categories: WaterCooler|0 Comments

VideoAge’s Right on MIPTV Preview

“As to this year’s MIPTV, one positive element of the market is actually being perceived as a minus by many: The absence of a massive U.S. studio presence — (…)

By |April 22nd, 2024|Categories: WaterCooler|0 Comments

The Father of Karaoke Has Stopped Singing

Shigeichi Negishi, the Japanese engineer who invented the karaoke machine in 1967, has died at the age of 100. Even though Negishi actually died on January 26, 2024, the news out (…)

By |April 18th, 2024|Categories: WaterCooler|0 Comments

Volatile Musk Encounter With Opinionated Lemon

By Dom Serafini

Recently, I reviewed the interview that former CNN personality Don Lemon did with Elon Musk of X (formerly Twitter). I viewed the whole 66 minutes of it on (…)

By |April 15th, 2024|Categories: WaterCooler|0 Comments

Relief and Excitement for MIP’s Ending

It seemed as though executives from RX France, the organizers of MIPTV, were relieved that the long agony of a market that started in 1963 was finally ending. At the (…)

By |April 11th, 2024|Categories: WaterCooler|0 Comments

MIP London on the Trail of the LMMM

“The London Screenings Come to MIPTV’s Rescue” read the headline of VideoAge’s March 6, 2023 Water Cooler feature. A year later it makes even more sense.

In 2025, MIP London, the (…)

By |April 8th, 2024|Categories: WaterCooler|0 Comments

MIP Preview Through ‘VideoAge’

The MIPTV edition of VideoAge is chock full of news and features, and even includes a guide to the 2024-2025 U.S. TV broadcast season. The Issue also previews the L.A. (…)

By |April 4th, 2024|Categories: WaterCooler|0 Comments