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VideoAge’s June/July issue won’t come out until the first day of NATPE Budapest — June 24 — but we’d like to give you, our loyal Watercooler readers, a little preview (…)

Summertime is when “the livin’ is easy,” to paraphrase George Gershwin, but it’s not so easy for the U.S. TV networks anymore. Thanks in part to the year-round premiere schedule (…)

With the L.A. Screenings wrapping up today, we thought we’d offer up our first straight-from-L.A. report.

The unusually large — but welcomed — number of new TV series meant longer screening (…)

The Upfronts are officially over. NBC, Fox, ABC, CBS and CW have held their presentations and all are ordering lots of new series for fall (more than usual, in fact). (…)

By the time the U.S. broadcast networks (and Spanish-language broadcast networks like Univision, Telemundo and Fox Hispanic) hold their upfronts next week — exact dates are here — (…)

Last year, NATPE Budapest was Rod Perth’s first market as the newly minted president of NATPE.

Perth told VideoAge that he and his team spent much of his inaugural (…)

When Los Angeles-based U.S. Hispanic Network Estrella TV launched their distribution business at last year’s L.A. Screenings, the company’s foray into that side of the industry was so (…)

This May marks the 50^th anniversary of the L.A. Screenings, and in honor of that occasion, VideoAge is celebrating 50 years of international program sales and distribution.

We at VideoAge have (…)

One could well say that MIP-TV never changes: From the praises and grumbles to the weather report.

Indeed the weather is predictable (and to be expected in the month (…)

Ahead of MIP-TV (which starts on Monday), we thought we’d catch up with Laurine Garaude, director of the Television Division of Reed MIDEM, to find out what’s in store. Below (…)