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Road to NATPE: Take Five With Gary Lico and Duccio Donati

As 2009 winds down, TV buyers are focusing on the New Year and the new programming budgets that will come with it, while sellers are wrestling with sales (…)

By |December 29th, 2009|Categories: WaterCooler|Comments Off on Road to NATPE: Take Five With Gary Lico and Duccio Donati

Happy Holidays To All

Even something as relentless as the Water Cooler is taking a break to wish everyone happy holidays. To those who celebrate the holidays for religious purposes and (…)

By |December 22nd, 2009|Categories: WaterCooler|Comments Off on Happy Holidays To All

Fear of Rupert Murdoch Gets Canadians All Riled Up

By Dom Serafini

It’s pronounced Globalive, but for some Canadians it is written Murdoch! This seems to be the root of the fight between the Canadian government and (…)

By |December 16th, 2009|Categories: WaterCooler|Comments Off on Fear of Rupert Murdoch Gets Canadians All Riled Up

The Ideal Airline Service for Int’l TV Execs

By Dom Serafini

During a one-week, 35,000 km journey that included stops in France, Germany, Singapore, Italy and New York City, I had time to think about an ideal (…)

By |December 8th, 2009|Categories: WaterCooler|Comments Off on The Ideal Airline Service for Int’l TV Execs

Air France’s High-Flying A380 Didn’t Deliver

By Dom Serafini

And on the fifth day it failed.

What was meant to be a memorable seven-hour flight to Munich via Paris became a 14-hour ordeal on the new Air (…)

By |December 1st, 2009|Categories: WaterCooler|Comments Off on Air France’s High-Flying A380 Didn’t Deliver

Multiple deliveries Vs. Multiple receivers

By Dom Serafini

As we prepared for our interview with Tom Rogers, CEO of TiVo (which is scheduled to appear in our NATPE Issue), it came to (…)

By |November 24th, 2009|Categories: WaterCooler|Comments Off on Multiple deliveries Vs. Multiple receivers

Television: Music Biz’s New Savior

By Karen Ruttner

Having spent nearly 10 years working in and around the music industry, I’m used to hearing complaints about the business being dead. Since the advent of (…)

By |November 17th, 2009|Categories: WaterCooler|Comments Off on Television: Music Biz’s New Savior

Consumers Will Gladly Pay For Good Content on Internet

By Bob Jenkins

I am the sort of guy everyone dreads of running into in a bar. No, I am not a drunk, and yes, I always dig deep when (…)

By |November 9th, 2009|Categories: WaterCooler|Comments Off on Consumers Will Gladly Pay For Good Content on Internet

Dom Serafini and History Don’t See Eye to Eye

By Norman Horowitz

Dom is not always wrong, but he is at least wrong some of the time, and now is “some of the time… .”

He wrote in his Water (…)

By |November 2nd, 2009|Categories: WaterCooler|Comments Off on Dom Serafini and History Don’t See Eye to Eye

Free Speech Amendment Could Silence It

By Dom Serafini

It is possible that a documentary, or Hollywood in particular, may change the course of American history. In the U.S. today, anyone can “buy” a politician, legally and (…)

By |October 26th, 2009|Categories: WaterCooler|Comments Off on Free Speech Amendment Could Silence It