NATPE at a Crossroads of Big Changes
During a quick trip to Miami to gather info for a preview of NATPE from the market base, VideoAge heard several assessments of three interlinked trade shows, as well as (…)
Los Altibajos de la Exportación de Contenido Latinoamericano
En 1986, la escena de la televisión latinoamericana comenzaba a surgir como una fuerza en el mercado de exportación (tanto que VideoAge lanzó una versión en español, VideoEra). En su (…)
Selling TV Rights to 29 E.U. Territories Outside The E.U.
On weekends, French TV network TF1 broadcasts a series of documentaries called La France Inconnue (or The Unknown France), about the Dom-Tom territories, which stands for Départements et Territoires d’Outre-Mer, (…)
Book Review: Hollywood’s Big Picture Expands Out of Its Frame
“I loved that job.” That’s what Amy Pascal told The New York Times in June 2017 about her stint as chairman of Sony’s Motion Pictures Group. “I loved it so (…)
NATPE’s CEO Talks About Market Growth
During interviews, market organizers — whether for MIP-TV, the AFM, the ATF, or NATPE — always seem to want to talk about their respective conference’s line-up of top-level executives. VideoAge, (…)
Turkish Dramas To Circle The Globe On a New Channel
The Timeless Drama Channel (TDC) is a new venture from multinational group SPI International, which is headquartered in New York City, and operates a total of 16 offices around the (…)
African TV Market Shows Growth and Challenges
One of the cover stories in last month’s Issue of VideoAge covered MENA territories — the bread and butter of the upcoming DISCOP Africa event in Johannesburg, South Africa, which (…)
Friends and Enemies in the Ad Business Make for a Good Read
“Frenemy” is an American word originally minted in 1953, but which only recently entered the common vernacular, and indicates persons (or companies) that are friends and enemies at the same (…)
Wall Street’s Growth Over TV’s Profits Mentality
Fracking, the technique to ex-tract oil and gas from rocks, has made the U.S. the world’s largest producer of natural gas, as well as an oil powerhouse that, according to (…)
TV Changes Are In the Air, But TV On the Air Is Still Hugely Popular
In his latest book about advertising, Frenemies, American media critic Ken Auletta stated that “mass audience is rare.” This could well be the case in the U.S., but it is (…)
