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By Dom Serafini

Apparently, when a publication is born in print, it’s difficult for it to go fully digital very quickly.

Exhibit “A” is The Wall Street Journal. My yearly print subscription (…)

By Dom Serafini

Since April 2020, I’ve flown to Italy five times. That’s a total of 10 round-trip flights and 10 different COVID-free protocols over a 14-month period.

In July, for Italy-bound (…)

One hundred more fantastic personalities originally from 70 cities, towns, and villages around the Abruzzo region in central Italy. They currently reside in 25 countries around the world and on (…)

By Dom Serafini

In the 1970s, progressive producers like Norman Lear created TV sitcoms like All in the Family, whose main character, Archie Bunker, could be described as an equal opportunity (…)

By Dom Serafini

In early June, during an article about film production incentives from U.S. states, two writers for The Wall Street Journal went off on a tangent arguing that “throwing (…)

By Dom Serafini

I wonder where I was during the fantastic TV programs of the late ’70s and early ’80s. My son also wonders about my whereabouts in the ’90s, otherwise (…)

By Dom Serafini

What is the business model of a made-for-streaming program? How much it costs is easy to figure out (and is explained at the bottom of this article), but (…)

On May 30, 2021, 300 Americans from New York City and Atlanta landed in Rome, and on June 9, France also welcomed visitors from the U.S. after more than a (…)

By mixing the music of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons and the Matador’s Espana Cani, three VideoAge operatives have created a public service announcement (PSA) video to promote vaccination around the world with the advice, “Take the (…)

By Dom Serafini

When the television industry was a product of “Main Street,” and making billions in the international arena, the sector was populated by “screamers,” executives who liked to yell (…)