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The Best of the Water Cooler, Part I: Mildly Controversial

In 2021, VideoAge published a total of 99 Water Cooler digital features (which post on Mondays and Thursdays), averaging 8.25 per month, which is a strange number, but statistics being (…)

By |December 27th, 2021|Categories: WaterCooler|1 Comment

The Santa Claus Story of a TV Distributor

Gary Lico has been making TV viewers happy by licensing programming for most of his adult years. Now he’s making children happy by dispensing Ho Ho Hos! as… Santa Claus. (…)

By |December 20th, 2021|Categories: WaterCooler|0 Comments

Road To NATPE: The Safety Factor

NATPE, like CES, the electronics trade show that will take place in Las Vegas in early January 2022, has taken a slew of safety precautions to make the return to (…)

By |December 16th, 2021|Categories: WaterCooler|0 Comments

Road To NATPE: The Party Line

By sea. By land By air. In 2022 all roads lead to NATPE Miami, which is the best way for people who are vaccinated against COVID to start the new (…)

By |December 13th, 2021|Categories: WaterCooler|0 Comments

Road to NATPE with José Escalante

José Escalante, CEO of Miami, Florida-based Latin Media, who was recently honored with a Produ Award at MIP Cancun for his lifetime achievements, has the unique distinction of having popularized (…)

By |December 9th, 2021|Categories: WaterCooler|0 Comments

A Report on a Year That Strived For Normalcy

In 2021 VideoAge published eight monthly editions (four print/digital, and four digital only). In addition, by the end of this month, there will be a total of 99 Water Cooler (…)

By |December 6th, 2021|Categories: WaterCooler|1 Comment

A Mayer Interview You Don’t Want to Miss

You definitely don’t want to miss an exclusive interview with Kevin A. Mayer in the December 2021 Issue of VideoAge.

In March of 2021, Mayer was appointed chairman (…)

By |December 2nd, 2021|Categories: WaterCooler|0 Comments

VideoAge’s ATF Issue Will DAZle You

Yes, it’s VideoAge‘s Asia TV Forum (ATF) Issue, but it’s still a festive cornucopia of a December editorial edition, starting with an exclusive interview with Kevin Mayer, chairman of DAZN, (…)

By |November 29th, 2021|Categories: WaterCooler|0 Comments

Alice Donenfeld: Re-sells in a Digital Era is a 0 to 1 Proposition

In the past, most television licenses and sales were made person to person — it was how the industry conducted things for decades. Technology then made the game easier, but (…)

By |November 22nd, 2021|Categories: WaterCooler|2 Comments

MIP Cancun Market: So Far So Good

Against all odds — starting with a Cancun that had once been declared a high COVID-19 contamination area but managed to become a safe or “green zone,” to a shootout (…)

By |November 18th, 2021|Categories: WaterCooler|0 Comments