WaterCooler

In 1996, HBO’s slogan for its subscription pay channel was “It’s Not TV, it’s HBO.”

In 2023, under new owner Warner Bros. Discovery, what had effectively become a streaming service changed (…)

Modernity can be tricky. The app with the NATPE Global exhibitors’ list went online just before the market’s opening day, January 16. But a NATPE official mentioned that if anyone (…)

For the Berlinale Classics section of the 74th Berlin International Film Festival, Rainer Rother and his team have gathered a spectrum of film genres ranging from early sound film experiments to sober (…)

By Preeya Naul*

In the realm of modern television, a notable resurgence is reshaping the landscape — a revival that echoes the days of linear TV’s reign, albeit in a reinvented (…)

To paraphrase Walt Disney at the 1955 opening of Disneyland in Anaheim, California,  VideoAge‘s January 2024 edition lets us relive memories from the past year, as well as savor the (…)

By Dom Serafini

The New York Times has become an unreadable newspaper. I became aware of this development when I began to accumulate sections of the newspaper without having read them. (…)

The year that flew by was a strange one. It was not really an eventful year like 2022, which saw the world rebounding after the pandemic, nevertheless 2023 offered many (…)

As the story goes, in the 1980s, once Francophones in the province of Quebec who wanted to secede from Canada found out that all other provinces in English-speaking Canada were (…)

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 (…)