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By Kerim Emrah Turna*

When we were making our plans during the last quarter of 2019, we were expecting a tough 2020, but we couldn’t have predicted how tough the year would (…)

The year that just passed will most likely be remembered as the worst year since the World War II period, and almost comparable to the horrid 1915-1919 era when both (…)

The pandemic has been more equal for some than for others. Case in point: ratings for the major U.S. TV networks have been down, but their ad revenue earnings did (…)

“Everyone writes on the walls, but me,” read graffiti in ancient Pompeii. We at the Water Cooler feel similarly these days in that it seems like everyone is writing about (…)

Hollywood had been “grabbed by a little group of bookkeepers and turned into a junk industry,” said producer David O. Selznick in 1951, as quoted in both Gene D. Phillips’s (…)

Senor Abravanel, better known as Silvio Santos, founder of Brazilian broadcaster SBT, turned 90 years old on December 12, 2020. He spent the last 60 of those years in front (…)

By Mike Reynolds

The “busiest man/woman in show business” tag has been used frequently in the entertainment biz, and while he (like everyone else) is taking a COVID-enforced break right now, (…)

Guillermo Borensztein (pictured above) is the Buenos Aires, Argentina-based vp of Sales and Co-Productions for ViacomCBS International Studios (VIS) Americas. VideoAge reached out to Borensztein to talk about the upcoming (…)

To get a first-hand buyer’s perspective of the recently concluded virtual MIP Cancun TV market, VideoAge contacted V. John Baghdassarian, vp, Content Acquisitions and Strategy for the Los Angeles-based Olympusat.

Baghdassarian (…)

Just before the year’s end, VideoAge contacted Aysegul Tuzun, Managing Director for Istanbul-based distribution company MISTCO, to review her 2020 international content sales activities on behalf of TRT, Turkey’s public (…)