WaterCooler

By Dom Serafini

When I first traveled from New York City to Buenos Aires, Argentina for the June 5-8, 1985 International Association of Broadcasters (IAB) conference, I was disoriented to discover (…)

Today, VideoAge‘s Water Cooler will examine just a few of the U.S. communications industry’s many contradictions, most of which seem rather illogical.

TV stations, radio stations, and newspapers are protected under the (…)

In 1896, the silent black-and-white image of a moving locomotive filled a movie screen in Paris, and the people in the theater thought it was going to drive right into them. They (…)

Despite several requests made prior to the market, VideoAge‘s Water Cooler wasn’t able to get the number of exhibitors or participants expected at the 24th annual Asia TV Forum and (…)

It took two months to prepare for the December edition of VideoAge in which we interviewed 10 industry executives for an in-depth report on FAST channels, and attended related conferences (…)

Claire Macdonald, the executive director of NATPE Global, has confirmed that while there were talks about combining NATPE Global with the competing Content Americas, ultimately, nothing came to fruition, so (…)

A frank talk with David Jenkinson, the organizer of C21’s Content Americas TV market in Miami, to be held January 23-25, 2024 at the Hilton Miami Downtown Hotel, revealed some (…)

Since kids were constantly checking and responding to text messages during class, a high school teacher in Brooklyn, New York told VideoAge‘s Water Cooler that at the start of this (…)

A tropical rainstorm welcomed delegates to MIP Cancun for its 10th anniversary, celebrated November 14-17, 2023. In addition to the storm, the LatAm market was a hectic one, and it (…)

In September, the U.S. TV industry was awash with news about impeding ownership changes for local linear TV broadcast stations. The news died down in October, and now in early (…)