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“Come on down,” was the famous line often uttered by Bob Barker, host of The Price is Right, an American TV game show that premiered on CBS in 1956 and (…)

Traditionally, VideoAge has not been big on film festivals, since it is more of a meat-and-potatoes trade publication focusing on the buying and selling of content. However, with two major (…)

It is often said that predicting the weather is not a science but a crapshoot. Before there were meteorologists, TV weather forecasters, and the U.S. National Weather Service (part of (…)

It is interesting to see how two Italians are battling for control of FIFA, the international football federation. One, the disgraced incumbent president, is the Italian–Swiss Gianni Infantino. The other, (…)

By Maricel Del Sol*

The Trust Barometer, the 26th annual worldwide survey about the level of trust that people place on various means of communications, as well as on government and (…)

UEFA, the European football federation, is standing firm, confirming its intention to boycott FIFA competitions if Gianni Infantino remains at the helm. “The boycott of FIFA competitions remains in place; (…)

MIPCOM Cannes is coming up fast and participants seem to be ecstatic, if not anxious. Even though the fall market has seen a reduction in the number of participants — (…)

The FIFA-UEFA clash over FIFA’s planned privatization of TV and other rights made Gianni Infantino reverse course. Infantino, president of FIFA, the Swiss-based international football organization, had intended to establish (…)

By Dom Serafini

In Italy in the 1960s, my father thought of all Americans as one big cohesive group, and, to him, they were better than any other people. They were (…)

By Dom Serafini

Two recent books, both, coincidentally, from Italy, are animating the international TV debate. One, Unbundling Entertainment, was written in English by Giovanni Pedde. The other, Gli scripted format (…)