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Jornadas de Cable: LATAM’s Premier Trade Show

At the start of the just-concluded Jornadas de Cable, or Cable Days — the busiest in the annual event’s 26 years — the ascending escalator in the basement of (…)

By |September 20th, 2016|Categories: WaterCooler|0 Comments

Venice Film Fest Gets Its Own Bridge of Sighs

The Venice Film Market, which has been held alongside the Venice Film Festival since 2012, has been fine-tuned and renamed Venice Production Bridge. The new event was held on September (…)

By |September 13th, 2016|Categories: WaterCooler|0 Comments

RAI President Antonio Campo Dall’Orto in “VideoAge”

VideoAge’s interview with the president and director general (DG) of Italy’s RAI, Antonio Campo Dall’Orto (pictured above with VideoAge’s editor), which will appear in the MIPCOM Issue, is interesting on several (…)

By |September 6th, 2016|Categories: WaterCooler|0 Comments

Looking Forward To L.A. Screenings 2017

If the 2016 L.A. Screenings cycle ends at MIPCOM, VideoAge will look ahead to the next round while reviewing the past one in its October Issue, which will (…)

By |August 30th, 2016|Categories: WaterCooler|0 Comments

U.S. TV Summer Ratings Samba

While its ratings paled in comparison to the 2012 London Olympics, this year’s Rio Olympics were a silver (if not gold) win for NBC. On average, there were (…)

By |August 22nd, 2016|Categories: WaterCooler|0 Comments

Larry Gershman Joins The Int’l TV Distribution Hall of Fame

Among former U.S. studios TV distribution presidents, there were some who were larger than life, and Larry Gershman is one of them. And after almost 60 years in the TV (…)

By |August 16th, 2016|Categories: WaterCooler|1 Comment

John MacDonald: Introducing the New Corus

In view of the recent large numbers of media mergers and acquisitions, one can say that Canada is “liquid,” but to describe the current situation, we have to use the (…)

By |August 9th, 2016|Categories: WaterCooler|0 Comments

Looking to the Future, While Celebrating The Past

VideoAge is a publication known for describing the future of television and celebrating its past. Last MIPCOM, VideoAge detailed how the television industry will look in 2030.

Previously, with the “Ultimates,” (…)

By |August 2nd, 2016|Categories: WaterCooler|0 Comments

Preparing for MIPCOM: A Primer For Exhibitors

MIPCOM seems far away, especially considering that, before then, we still have to go through the Montreal Film Fest, Venice Film Fest, TIFF, the Jornadas and Prix Italia, just to (…)

By |July 26th, 2016|Categories: WaterCooler|0 Comments

Sandy Frank: A TV Pioneer Who Took Risks

The legendary Sandy Frank is VideoAge’s International TV Distribution Hall of Fame honoree for the MIPCOM (October 2016) Issue.

Frank is the 13th pioneer featured in VideoAge’s printed edition since April (…)

By |July 20th, 2016|Categories: WaterCooler|0 Comments