Road to Singapore for the Asia TV Forum
Asia’s willingness to embrace new technologies such as mobile platforms is a factor that sets it apart from other regions, where the technology (…)
MIFED’s “Dottor” Franci: Gone But Not Forgotten
By Dom Serafini
Recently, I called the Milan Fair press office and the Milan Fair Foundation to get some information about Michele Guido Franci, the (…)
Public TV is Not Fee-TV Like Pay-TV
By Dom Serafini
Regularly, like tax collection, the question of public TV funding returns to stimulate the volatile minds of politicians, TV executives, journalists and academics. This time it (…)
Big Tobacco To Be An Example To TV Networks
By Dom Serafini
OK, here’s a common sense question for you. On one side we have industries, such as big oil, coal, pharmaceutical, etc., that tend to pollute the (…)
Old Timers Were Good Timers, But Not Cannes Wisers
By Dom Serafini
Undoubtedly, the previous international television industry leadership was an excellent one: It created the International Council (now International Academy). It made markets such as MIP-TV and (…)
A Pre-MIPCOM Talk With Atlantyca’s Caterina Vacchi
By Leah Hochbaum Rosner
With MIPCOM right around the corner, television executives around the globe are gearing up for a visit to Cannes that they hope will be filled (…)
MIPCOM: Take Five with ITV Global’s Tobias de Graaff
By Leah Hochbaum Rosner
This will technically be the very first MIPCOM for ITV Global Entertainment, Ltd. following the firm’s recent renaming of Granada International and Granada Ventures (…)
Take Five with Telemundo’s Xavier Aristimuño
By Leah Hochbaum Rosner
At the global MIPCOM market, which will start October 13, television executives will turn their attention to nearly every single corner of the world. But (…)
The Road to MIPCOM: Take Five with Irv Holender
By Leah Hochbaum Rosner
One of MIPCOM’s most veteran executives is certainly Irv Holender, now director/principal of Toronto-based The Fremantle Corporation. Irv has attended both MIP-TV and (…)
The Hot Road to MIPCOM For ShineReveille’s John Pollak
By Leah Hochbaum Rosner
Earlier this year, Elizabeth Murdoch’s U.K.-based Shine Group acquired Reveille, a firm started up by NBC Entertainment co-chairman Ben Silverman prior to joining the (…)
