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No time to relax after MIPCOM Cannes, folks. MIP Cancun is coming up in a few weeks and those TV executives who do business in LatAm are very aware of (…)

“It’s a generational shift.” That was how Lucy Smith, MIPCOM’s director, described this year’s edition of the Cannes market during an early-morning press conference yesterday, Wednesday, October 15, the third-day (…)

MIPCOM is not just about buying and selling (if that were the case, everyone would go home happy), but it is a time and a place where participants see the (…)

Out of the 48 conferences at the MIA market, currently underway in Rome, the two that most accurately reflected the state of the Italian entertainment industry were: “Italian Cinema at (…)

TV trade shows like MIPCOM Cannes are great. But if the market doesn’t give you everything you paid for and expected, VideoAge‘s MIPCOM edition will allow both buyers and sellers (…)

Nexstar CEO Perry Sook is back in the news since he, reportedly, was the one who gave the order to his local TV stations to drop the late-night Jimmy Kimmel (…)

The word “Casting Director” first entered the lexicon around 1814, and described the person tasked with selecting actors for parts in stage productions. In the movie business, it began being (…)

“The Sunday Styles” section of the September 14 edition of The New York Times featured a full front cover story, “Fashion’s Historic Shake-up,” which spanned seven pages and introduced big (…)

By Dom Serafini

John Malone, who, not long ago, was considered a modern-day Godot because he was widely talked about but rarely ever seen, has an autobiographical book out: Born to (…)

How much energy does AI use? According to the popular AI-powered answer engine Perplexity, ChatGPT or similar large-language models consume about 2.9 watt-hours per query. It also added that this (…)