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The Trades’ War for Control of the NATPE Legacy

Last month, Content Americas successfully concluded its very first TV market in Miami. The event was viewed by many as being the heir apparent to the dearly departed NATPE. After (…)

By |February 2nd, 2023|Categories: WaterCooler|0 Comments

Upfronts and L.A. Screenings 2023 Revealed

While the development execs are fine-tuning their TV network line-ups for the 2023-2024 season, and the networks’ ad salespeople are jostling for attention for their Upfront presentations in New York (…)

By |January 30th, 2023|Categories: WaterCooler|0 Comments

Content Americas: A Floor Report

“It’s commendable that C21 was able to organize a market in a few short months,” said content buyer Cida Goncalves about the very first Content Americas TV market, which is, (…)

By |January 26th, 2023|Categories: WaterCooler|0 Comments

Content Americas Takes Flight

Old timers who attended the first few editions of MIP-TV in the 1960s often reminisce about the fact that participants’ pictures were posted on a big board at the entrance (…)

By |January 24th, 2023|Categories: WaterCooler|0 Comments

The In-Person TCA Press Tour: A Live Report

By Mike Reynolds

After three years of COVID-forced Zoom interviews instead of actual Winter and Summer Press Tours on location, the Television Critics Association (TCA) Winter Press Tour finally went “live” (…)

By |January 23rd, 2023|Categories: WaterCooler|0 Comments

The TikTok Phenomenon is a Knock-Knock Joke?

By Dom Serafini

At breakfast at my hotel in Singapore — when I was there for the ATF in early December 2022 — I regularly saw a girl of about five (…)

By |January 19th, 2023|Categories: WaterCooler|0 Comments

Have no Fear, VideoAge’s January Issue is Here!

The international TV industry entered 2023 down one market (R.I.P. NATPE Miami), and (potentially) up three new markets that were seeking to replace it. Ultimately, just one of those new (…)

By |January 17th, 2023|Categories: WaterCooler|0 Comments

In Germany, Hate Speech is Not Free Speech

There are people — not only in the U.S., but also in Canada, in Germany, and in many other countries — who use the free speech argument to spread false (…)

By |January 12th, 2023|Categories: WaterCooler|0 Comments

Upfronts’ U-turn: What’s the Upturn?

By Dom Serafini

There are many reasons to do away with the Upfronts, a U.S. broadcast tradition going back to the 1960s. The first reason is the fact that the Upfronts (…)

By |January 9th, 2023|Categories: WaterCooler|0 Comments

Knowing Things That You Didn’t Know You Knew

By Dom Serafini

Looking back at the recently concluded ATF market in Singapore, I realized that aging has allowed me to know things that I didn’t even know I knew. It’s (…)

By |January 5th, 2023|Categories: WaterCooler|0 Comments