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By Dom Serafini

When the television industry was a product of “Main Street,” and making billions in the international arena, the sector was populated by “screamers,” executives who liked to yell (…)

By Dom Serafini

The BBC, the U.K.’s public broadcast system, has two components: a bureaucratic and inadequate management and a respected and objective news staff. Now the news staff is under (…)

Those we loved don’t go away

They walk beside us every day

Unseen, unheard but always near

Still loved, still missed & very dear 

(Poem by Richard Milnes)

The 17th annual Veterans Luncheon, like last year’s 16th edition, was celebrated (…)

Leafing through the May/June 2021 Issue of VideoAge, readers will notice that TV sales executive rosters have been reduced at some of the Hollywood studios. They will also notice the (…)

By Dom Serafini

The news is still reverberating around the world as a sort of Shakespearean Comedy of Errors seems to be coming to life. Discovery is paying AT&T $43 billion (…)

By Attila Gazdag*

It was a logical move for the Park Ridge, Illinois-based Albert Whitman & Company to expand into all media platforms with the establishment of Albert Whitman Media. The (…)

Gordon Smith, a 69-year-old former Republican Senator from Oregon, is set to step down as CEO of the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB), a major lobbying arm of the U.S. (…)

The Strasbourg-based European Audiovisual Observatory has published a detailed report on post-Brexit rules. Below is a partial summary.

Both the E.U. and the U.K. provide for visa-free travel for short-term visits. (…)

By Dom Serafini

Do you remember the expression, “Would the last one to leave, please turn out the lights?” Well, it might possibly refer to me… as well as former Disney (…)

By Dom Serafini

The U.S. entertainment industry, like many other sectors, went from being valued in the millions to evaluations in the billions in just over 34 or so years. In (…)