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Planning For MIPCOM: Inter Medya

This VideoAge’s installment of its Water Cooler pre-MIPCOM reports highlights Inter Medya. The company’s CEO, Can Okan, reported what the Turkish international content distribution company will be offering at (…)

By |October 2nd, 2018|Categories: WaterCooler|0 Comments

Planning For MIPCOM: Global Agency

VideoAge continues its series of pre-MIPCOM reports from Turkish production and distribution companies. This Water Cooler edition features Global Agency.

At this year’s market, the Istanbul-based independent content distributor will (…)

By |September 28th, 2018|Categories: WaterCooler|0 Comments

Planning For MIPCOM: Calinos Entertainment

With this Water Cooler edition, VideoAge begins a series of pre-MIPCOM reports of Turkish production and distribution companies.

Like most of Turkey’s TV export companies, Calinos Entertainment is headquartered (…)

By |September 25th, 2018|Categories: WaterCooler|0 Comments

We Wuz Robbed At The 2018 “Streammy” Awards

“We wuz robbed” is a uniquely American expression with dubious origins and paternity, but some think it was born in the early 1930s at either a boxing match or a (…)

By |September 19th, 2018|Categories: WaterCooler|0 Comments

‘Frenemies’ and ‘Fear’ Show ‘The Big Picture’

This is a year of exposés — of Madison Ave (with Frenemies), of Hollywood (with The Big Picture), and of Washington D.C. (with Fear).

Madison Avenue was exposed by Ken Auletta, (…)

By |September 12th, 2018|Categories: WaterCooler|0 Comments

GRB’s C. Scot Cru on MIPCOM Preparations

C. Scot Cru, who was recently tapped as GRB’s president of International, announced to VideoAge during a phone conversation that the Los Angeles-based firm will be returning to its core (…)

By |September 4th, 2018|Categories: WaterCooler|0 Comments

Le Rendez-Vous Highlights “Efficiency,” While Jornadas Tracks “Inefficiencies”

This Water Cooler edition will preview two stories that will soon appear in their extended forms in the September digital-only Issue of VideoAge.

We’ll start in the north, with the 24th (…)

By |August 21st, 2018|Categories: WaterCooler|0 Comments

Joe Flaherty (1931 – 2018): TV Technology Pioneer

On August 7, Joseph A. Flaherty Jr. passed away at the age of 87. Dr. Flaherty, who held a doctorate in physics, was the subject of a September 1984 front (…)

By |August 14th, 2018|Categories: WaterCooler|0 Comments

The Oscars Are a TV Invention

By Dom Serafini

A battle is rumbling in Hollywood between the film and TV industries.

In the past, film imposed the law, since it was considered the nobler art, while TV was (…)

By |August 10th, 2018|Categories: WaterCooler|0 Comments

NAB NY Highlights Sports, Advertising

This year, at NAB New York, expect to meet author Ken Auletta and CBS Sports chairman Sean McManus.

Organized by the Washington, D.C.-based National Association of Broadcasters, NAB Show New (…)

By |August 8th, 2018|Categories: WaterCooler|0 Comments