A Whirlwind Tour of MIP-TV With Laurine Garaude
With less than two weeks to go until MIP-TV 2014 opens its Palais, we chatted with Laurine Garaude, head of Television at Reed MIDEM, to find out what’s in (…)
Canada’s Film, TV State Subsidies: Two Views
The recent crackdown by the CRTC, Canada’s communications regulator, of three adult channels because they didn’t show enough Canadian sex, gave the Vancouver-based Fraser Institute (FI) a reason to diss (…)
MENA-DISCOP Changes Venue, Generates More Sales
The fourth edition of DISCOP Istanbul concluded in Turkey last week, and organizers Basic Lead report that attendance figures rose by 33 percent compare to last year.
There was (…)
NEM Calls on Bruce Tuchman To Reflect on CEE
The New Europe Market (NEM), to be held June 10-13 in Dubrovnik, Croatia, brings together media professionals to discuss a wide variety of hot topics relevant to all (…)
Kids TV Summit in NYC Leverages Canada’s Strength
At the 2014 Kidscreen Summit in New York City, the opinion of Italian children’s TV executives in attendance was that this year’s edition was not on par with (…)
Binge-viewing, The New Way of Watching Television
With the release of (the entire) season 2 of Netflix‘s political drama House of Cards, many U.S. television viewers are spending the week binge-watching episode after episode of (…)
David Ellender’s Talent-Friendly New Venture
There’s a new TV studio on the block, and this one is run by David Ellender, former CEO of London-based FremantleMedia. On Thursday Ellender announced the launch of Slingshot Global (…)
U.S. TV Nets Recycle Used (But Not Abused) Pilots
Hollywood is again in the middle of pilot development season. Usually, the industry waits with bated breath for the U.S. broadcast network Upfronts in New York City in mid-May, to (…)
NATPE 2014 View and Review. Miami’s Heat was a Hit
NATPE Miami 2014 has just wrapped up, and here’s a straight-from-the-market-floor report on this year’s edition. We’ll have a more detailed account in our DISCOP (March) and MIP-TV (…)
Awarding Excellence is RAI’s Prix Italia Mandate
Recently, RAI, Italy’s state broadcaster, appointed Paolo Morawski as Secretary General of Prix Italia, the world oldest radio TV (and now web) festival.
VideoAge caught up with him from (…)
