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The 2022-2023 U.S. TV Season & the L.A Screenings

The month of May will soon be upon us, and, according to ancient calendars, promises to be a good one. In the Hindu calendar, May is the Jyeshtha month (or (…)

By |March 3rd, 2022|Categories: WaterCooler|0 Comments

Close encounter With DISCOP’s Patrick Zuchowicki-Jucaud

By Dom Serafini

Patrick Zuchowicki-Jucaud is known in TV trade show circles as a pioneer of emerging TV territories first Eastern Europe, then the Middle East, and later Africa. Some (…)

By |February 28th, 2022|Categories: WaterCooler|0 Comments

Road to MIPTV & the L.A. Screenings

Making predictions is a risky business. For example, VideoAge staffers bet a Corona beer that NATPE Miami would surely happen since virologists were predicting that Omicron would abate by opening (…)

By |February 24th, 2022|Categories: WaterCooler|0 Comments

Pandemic and TV in LATAM

First, the pandemic came and devastated the lives of so many in the Latin American region. Then came an economic downturn that is only now abating.

COVID-19 couldn’t have been much (…)

By |February 17th, 2022|Categories: WaterCooler|0 Comments

Learn the ‘Secrets of Playboy’ with Alexandra Dean

Lately, New York City-based director Alexandra Haggiag Dean (pictured above) has been all over the news for her latest docuseries, Secrets of Playboy. The 43-year-old Dean received some recognition for (…)

By |February 14th, 2022|Categories: WaterCooler|1 Comment

A Miami Get-together to Discuss NATPE, L.A. Screenings

Eight LATAM TV leaders joined VideoAge editor Dom Serafini at a breakfast meeting to discuss the future of NATPE Miami and the development of the upcoming L.A. Screenings. Shortly before (…)

By |February 10th, 2022|Categories: WaterCooler|0 Comments

The Current Streaming Model is Unsustainable: Read All About It!

The underlying message from both the data measurement company Antenna and the media research group Kagan is that the current business model of streaming operations as SVoD services is not (…)

By |February 7th, 2022|Categories: WaterCooler|0 Comments

Bert Cohen: A Hall of Fame Feature No One Should Miss

Imagine an executive working for the same U.S. distribution company for 32 years, and in the process going through seven different parent companies, nine management changes, and two attempted takeovers.

Then (…)

By |February 3rd, 2022|Categories: WaterCooler|1 Comment

Rehearsing the L.A. Screenings 2022

After the U.S. TV networks announced the dates of their in-person Upfronts in NYC (see the above pictured calendar), all eyes are now turning to the studios in Los Angeles, (…)

By |January 31st, 2022|Categories: WaterCooler|1 Comment

Ahead of its Times (and Journal)  

VideoAge’s January 2022 edition featured a story on how a TV trade publication such as VideoAge, reported on an issue before a newspaper of The Wall Street Journal’s caliber did. (…)

By |January 27th, 2022|Categories: WaterCooler|0 Comments