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Assessing the “Mood” for MIPTV

In advance of MIPTV, VideoAge surveyed different distributors in various countries to assess the “mood” of the Cannes market. Although the full report will be printed in VideoAge‘s April Issue, (…)

By |March 14th, 2022|Categories: WaterCooler|0 Comments

L.A. Screenings 2022 at the Century Plaza

The 2022 edition of the L.A. Screenings is going back to where it began as the May Screenings in 1963, the Century Plaza, at least for the indie portion of (…)

By |March 10th, 2022|Categories: WaterCooler|0 Comments

Rakuten TV Outlines its Streaming Expansion Plans

In October 2021, Barcelona, Spain-based Rakuten announced its new CEO, Cédric Dufour, who took the reins from Jacinto Roca. Roca helmed the company for 10 years, seeing it through much (…)

By |March 7th, 2022|Categories: WaterCooler|0 Comments

The 2022-2023 U.S. TV Season & the L.A Screenings

The month of May will soon be upon us, and, according to ancient calendars, promises to be a good one. In the Hindu calendar, May is the Jyeshtha month (or (…)

By |March 3rd, 2022|Categories: WaterCooler|0 Comments

Close encounter With DISCOP’s Patrick Zuchowicki-Jucaud

By Dom Serafini

Patrick Zuchowicki-Jucaud is known in TV trade show circles as a pioneer of emerging TV territories first Eastern Europe, then the Middle East, and later Africa. Some (…)

By |February 28th, 2022|Categories: WaterCooler|0 Comments

Road to MIPTV & the L.A. Screenings

Making predictions is a risky business. For example, VideoAge staffers bet a Corona beer that NATPE Miami would surely happen since virologists were predicting that Omicron would abate by opening (…)

By |February 24th, 2022|Categories: WaterCooler|0 Comments

Pandemic and TV in LATAM

First, the pandemic came and devastated the lives of so many in the Latin American region. Then came an economic downturn that is only now abating.

COVID-19 couldn’t have been much (…)

By |February 17th, 2022|Categories: WaterCooler|0 Comments

Learn the ‘Secrets of Playboy’ with Alexandra Dean

Lately, New York City-based director Alexandra Haggiag Dean (pictured above) has been all over the news for her latest docuseries, Secrets of Playboy. The 43-year-old Dean received some recognition for (…)

By |February 14th, 2022|Categories: WaterCooler|1 Comment

A Miami Get-together to Discuss NATPE, L.A. Screenings

Eight LATAM TV leaders joined VideoAge editor Dom Serafini at a breakfast meeting to discuss the future of NATPE Miami and the development of the upcoming L.A. Screenings. Shortly before (…)

By |February 10th, 2022|Categories: WaterCooler|0 Comments

The Current Streaming Model is Unsustainable: Read All About It!

The underlying message from both the data measurement company Antenna and the media research group Kagan is that the current business model of streaming operations as SVoD services is not (…)

By |February 7th, 2022|Categories: WaterCooler|0 Comments