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To Zip Through Airport Security, Make a Reservation

These days, airlines are rarely overbooked. The Omicron variant of COVID has seen to that. Nonetheless, air travel is slowly improving, so would-be attendees of the spring film-TV markets will (…)

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

The American Language Facilitates Relations

An article entitled “The Downside of English’s Dominance” ran in the November 27 weekly Review section of The Wall Street Journal.

The main points of the story can be summarized thusly:

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By |January 20th, 2022|Categories: WaterCooler|1 Comment

LATAM’s Southern Cone: What Int’l Content Distributors Should Know

By Omar Mendez*

The Southern Cone — made up of Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, and Paraguay — perfectly illustrates how different regions of Latin America can be. Each one is distinct from (…)

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

The Best Is Yet To Come!!!

By Susan Bender

Recalling my lifetime in the entertainment industry, and 50 glorious years in television for VideoAge, is a pleasure. As a child and adolescent, I sang and entertained for many (…)

By |January 13th, 2022|Categories: WaterCooler|0 Comments

VideoAge’s January Issue: Hot Topics in a Cold Winter

NATPE Miami might have been canceled, but VideoAge’s January 2022 edition is still live… in print and online, promoting over 50 programs from 15 content distributors and services from seven (…)

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

Tony Friscia’s Three (or Four) Passports Story

From: Dom Serafini

To: Cathy Malatesta, Lawless Ent.

Re: Script idea

Outline: A Sicilian-American marries a Scottish lady in England during WWII. Their American son acquires E.U. citizenship and U.K. citizenship. Scotland separates (…)

By |January 6th, 2022|Categories: WaterCooler|0 Comments

The Best of the Water Cooler, Part II: The Changing Challenges

Below, find a selection of seven more of VideoAge‘s best Water Cooler features posted in 2021. These tend to be less controversial than the first bunch we posted last week, (…)

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

The Best of the Water Cooler, Part I: Mildly Controversial

In 2021, VideoAge published a total of 99 Water Cooler digital features (which post on Mondays and Thursdays), averaging 8.25 per month, which is a strange number, but statistics being (…)

By |December 27th, 2021|Categories: WaterCooler|1 Comment

The Santa Claus Story of a TV Distributor

Gary Lico has been making TV viewers happy by licensing programming for most of his adult years. Now he’s making children happy by dispensing Ho Ho Hos! as… Santa Claus. (…)

By |December 20th, 2021|Categories: WaterCooler|0 Comments

Road To NATPE: The Safety Factor

NATPE, like CES, the electronics trade show that will take place in Las Vegas in early January 2022, has taken a slew of safety precautions to make the return to (…)

By |December 16th, 2021|Categories: WaterCooler|0 Comments