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The E.U. Media Freedom Act
Could Be Great if Understood

In 1939, Winston Churchill said, "Russia is a riddle, wrapped in (...)

The L.A. Screenings
Phoenix Rises. Event Dates

VideoAge’s symbol for this year’s edition of the L.A. (...)

Moving Talent from Social
Media to OTT, Legacy Media

Below is a transcript of a podcast with Bianca (...)

February 2025

TV outlets keep multiplying with SVoD, AVoD, and FAST. The number of quality TV production keeps dropping. Overall, advertising money keeps increasing. Linear TV outlets continue to be profitable. And yet, the content distribution industry is crying in unison: “No one is buying.” What gives? (…)

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History of the American Film Market

History of the L.A. Screenings

History of MIP-TV (Plus, MIP-TV 2003 under SARS, Iraq War, Industry consolidation and recession)

History of NATPE

History of MIFED (in Italian)

History of Prix Italia through the pages of VideoAge (PDF version)

L.A. Screenings Veteran
Luncheons Through The Years

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Reading or Listening to a Book: Pro & Con

February 20th, 2025|0 Comments

As one of the very few TV trade publications that regularly runs a book review, VideoAge has immersed itself in the discussion of whether listening to a book is the same as reading a book. The answer seems as if (...)

Streamer Levies to Help Indies

February 17th, 2025|0 Comments

Streamers such as Netflix and Amazon took a "throwing money around like confetti" attitude to their productions (exemplified by Apple TV+ paying a reported $15 million per episode for The Morning Show), and the wave from such streamer extravagance severely (...)

Inside MIP London & the L.A. Screenings

February 13th, 2025|0 Comments

The big news in the February Issue of VideoAge is naturally what every international TV industry person has been talking about for the past 10 months — MIP London — and many of the questions revolving around it will be (...)

Bert Cohen’s Worldvision: After Seven Owners, Its Success Became Its Downfall

In his business life, Bertram (later legally changed to Bert) (...)

John Laing: Crisscrossing The World With a RoboCop Promo Under His Arm

It was a big mistake to ask John Franklin Scott (...)

Joe Wallach: Political Intrigue Did Not Undermine His TV Challenges

When Joseph "Joe" Wallach was working at Brazil's Globo TV (...)