6 (Continued From Page 4) and Optimum in the U.S., both controlled by French-Israeli businessman Patrick Drahi). The video was subsequently donated to the MasticMoriches-Shirley Community Library (pictured above). In addition to celebrating “The Rise and Fall of the American Monoculture,” the Journal’s insert celebrates America’s cinemas, TV shows, videogames, theme parks, songs, pro (American) football, theater, writers, streaming services, and people who changed the course of American entertainment, including P.T. Barnum and his circus in 1835, and Julia Child, who brought cooking shows to television in the early 1960s. However, the Journal’s special section also reports that sound in films was initially shunned by studio heads because, in order for it to be adopted widely, that meant that sound studios and cinemas had to be wired, changing the industry’s economic structure. As for streaming, the section reports that RealNetwork pioneered streaming audio and video in 1995. The third of several special sections of The Wall Street Journal for America250, the celebration of the 250th anniversary of America’s independence from the U.K. and the world’s longest democracy, featured “Entertainment.” The 26-page insert came out on Tuesday, February 17, 2026, and was subtitled, “The story of the world’s greatest economy.” The celebration for America250 is taking place on July 4, 2026, throughout the U.S. and around the world, including (for the second time) Giulianova, in the Abruzzo re- gion of Italy, birthplace of VideoAge editor Dom Serafini, who was also involved in the celebration of America’s 200th anniversary in the U.S. In 1976, Serafini produced the only videotape of a Long Island, New York Fourth of July parade for Suffolk Cablevision (founded by Charles Dolan of HBO fame, and now part of Altice, known as Orange in France, Celebration of America250 Starts Early in 1983 at the age of 41 in the Amazon River while saving his 17-year-old son, Carlos Enrique Cisneros Mehbod, who later became Gustavo’s favorite nephew and, in 1995, CEO of the Cisneros Television Group, based in Caracas and Miami, Florida. During that period, Trump’s interests reconnected with those of the Cisneros family. In fact, in 1998, Carlos Enrique purchased the international rights to Playboy for $100 million, a purchase that proved ill-fated, as Carlos Enrique resigned in 2002 and committed suicide in Los Angeles in 2004. In 2000, Trump appeared in two Playboy video cameos that were reportedly sold internationally by Cisneros. Media Connections (Continued from Page 4) VIDEOAGE April 2026 World
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