WaterCooler

To paraphrase Walt Disney at the 1955 opening of Disneyland in Anaheim, California,  VideoAge‘s January 2024 edition lets us relive memories from the past year, as well as savor the (…)

By Dom Serafini

The New York Times has become an unreadable newspaper. I became aware of this development when I began to accumulate sections of the newspaper without having read them. (…)

The year that flew by was a strange one. It was not really an eventful year like 2022, which saw the world rebounding after the pandemic, nevertheless 2023 offered many (…)

As the story goes, in the 1980s, once Francophones in the province of Quebec who wanted to secede from Canada found out that all other provinces in English-speaking Canada were (…)

By Dom Serafini

When I first traveled from New York City to Buenos Aires, Argentina for the June 5-8, 1985 International Association of Broadcasters (IAB) conference, I was disoriented to discover (…)

Today, VideoAge‘s Water Cooler will examine just a few of the U.S. communications industry’s many contradictions, most of which seem rather illogical.

TV stations, radio stations, and newspapers are protected under the (…)

In 1896, the silent black-and-white image of a moving locomotive filled a movie screen in Paris, and the people in the theater thought it was going to drive right into them. They (…)

Despite several requests made prior to the market, VideoAge‘s Water Cooler wasn’t able to get the number of exhibitors or participants expected at the 24th annual Asia TV Forum and (…)

It took two months to prepare for the December edition of VideoAge in which we interviewed 10 industry executives for an in-depth report on FAST channels, and attended related conferences (…)

Claire Macdonald, the executive director of NATPE Global, has confirmed that while there were talks about combining NATPE Global with the competing Content Americas, ultimately, nothing came to fruition, so (…)