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Social Media Sites are Publishers, Not Messengers

By Dom Serafini

Justice Samuel Alito summarized the Social Media position before the U.S. Supreme Court (here paraphrased): “You say it’s like the Miami Herald (or any other newspaper), and the (…)

By |March 18th, 2024|Categories: WaterCooler|0 Comments

Road to MIPTV 2024

All signs point to renewed vigor for markets leading up to and following MIPTV. It all started with the two Miami TV trade shows (NATPE and Content Americas, with a (…)

By |March 14th, 2024|Categories: WaterCooler|0 Comments

Hollywood Braces for “Below the Line” Strike

By Mike Reynolds

Hollywood seems to like sequels on small and large screens, but 2024 may see a very different kind of sequel — and not a very pleasant one, at (…)

By |March 11th, 2024|Categories: WaterCooler|0 Comments

NATPE to Take Realscreen on a Date in February

The official news came out on Tuesday, March 5, 2024: “The 2025 editions of Realscreen Summit and NATPE Global will co-locate at the InterContinental Miami hotel. Spanning the week of (…)

By |March 7th, 2024|Categories: WaterCooler|0 Comments

The EV Fiasco Was Predictable: A Cautionary Tale for Streamers

By Dom Serafini

In September 2022, a year before U.S. car executives were looking to cash in on their Electric Vehicle (EV) bets, being a so-called “know-it-all,” I wrote for a (…)

By |March 4th, 2024|Categories: WaterCooler|0 Comments

Major Italian Football League in the Red Sea

If sports TV channels in the U.S. are reportedly in troubled waters, in Italy, football clubs are the ones drowning in the Red Sea. Financial losses are engulfing the Serie (…)

By |February 29th, 2024|Categories: WaterCooler|1 Comment

The Globes’ Voting Process Loses its Opaqueness

By Mike Reynolds

A return of the televised Golden Globe Awards show from Hollywood in January 2024 had many people wondering if the elimination of the organizer, the former Hollywood Foreign (…)

By |February 26th, 2024|Categories: WaterCooler|0 Comments

The London Screenings: My Story

By Dermot Horan*

Well into the early 2000s, content buyers used to go to Brighton, in the U.K., for the BBC Showcase market. It was held in a rather old-fashioned conference (…)

By |February 22nd, 2024|Categories: WaterCooler|0 Comments

Cussing: The New Frontier in the Politically Correct Era

On Italian broadcast TV all Dick Wolf series (including Law & Order, FBI, and Chicago PD) get a red dot on the side of the screen, indicating the presence of (…)

By |February 19th, 2024|Categories: WaterCooler|0 Comments

The “Exposure Effect” of “VideoAge”

The “Mere Exposure Effect” is a scientific term for people’s tendency to like things just because they have been exposed to them repeatedly. This term could even be applied to (…)

By |February 15th, 2024|Categories: WaterCooler|0 Comments