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“Everyone writes on the walls, but me,” read graffiti in ancient Pompeii. We at the Water Cooler feel similarly these days in that it seems like everyone is writing about (…)

Hollywood had been “grabbed by a little group of bookkeepers and turned into a junk industry,” said producer David O. Selznick in 1951, as quoted in both Gene D. Phillips’s (…)

Senor Abravanel, better known as Silvio Santos, founder of Brazilian broadcaster SBT, turned 90 years old on December 12, 2020. He spent the last 60 of those years in front (…)

By Mike Reynolds

The “busiest man/woman in show business” tag has been used frequently in the entertainment biz, and while he (like everyone else) is taking a COVID-enforced break right now, (…)

Guillermo Borensztein (pictured above) is the Buenos Aires, Argentina-based vp of Sales and Co-Productions for ViacomCBS International Studios (VIS) Americas. VideoAge reached out to Borensztein to talk about the upcoming (…)

To get a first-hand buyer’s perspective of the recently concluded virtual MIP Cancun TV market, VideoAge contacted V. John Baghdassarian, vp, Content Acquisitions and Strategy for the Los Angeles-based Olympusat.

Baghdassarian (…)

Just before the year’s end, VideoAge contacted Aysegul Tuzun, Managing Director for Istanbul-based distribution company MISTCO, to review her 2020 international content sales activities on behalf of TRT, Turkey’s public (…)

Stephanie Fialkow, manager of International Digital Distribution for New York City-based FilmRise, sent VideoAge‘s Water Cooler a first-hand report about her experience with the virtual MIP Cancun event, which was (…)

NATPE Miami’s virtual edition has received a vote of confidence from the Miami-based participants surveyed in the December Issue of VideoAge.

In lieu of face-to-face meetings during these COVID-19 times, virtual (…)

By Tony Friscia

For 15 uninterrupted years, a group of entertainment industry colleagues — self-described as “veterans” — have gathered together in Los Angeles during the L.A. Screenings to lunch with (…)