This Time MIPCOM Is All About MIP-TV, The L.A. Screenings
The talk at this year’s MIPCOM is likely to be all about… MIP-TV 2020. That’s because there’s little to say about MIPCOM 2019, other than that it’s going to be (…)
NATPE’s First Streaming Plus Had Lots of Pluses
NATPE recently hosted “Streaming Plus” a first-of-its-kind summit for the Los Angeles-based non-profit TV trade organization, during which leading executives from CBS, YouTube, The CW, and Netflix gathered to review (…)
TVFI Stages 25th French Film-TV Exports Expo
Only a few weeks after the G7 Summit was held in Biarritz, French content distributors and members of TV France International (TVFI) — the industry association of French audiovisual program (…)
Prix Italia Turns To Ancient Rome To Salute Diversity
After a 26-year absence, Prix Italia returns to Rome September 23-28 for its 71st edition. The “Prix,” as it is commonly called, is the world’s oldest radio-TV festival, and is (…)
Old: Insults. New: Reality in Politically Correct Times
Today’s crude and rude “reality television” cannot match the crassness of TV “roasts,” which were popular in the 1970s and ’80s. Then, words were used as weapons. Today, those “weapons” (…)
Egypt Opens New Int’l Opportunity in MENA Region
One of the DISCOP MENA markets is now in Cairo, and for a good reason. Egypt has one of the most well-established and influential entertainment and media industries in the (…)
Bernard Chevry: 1922-2019 The Life of a Pioneer
The last time that I saw Bernard Chevry, who died on Friday, May 17 in his Paris home, was in 2013, when Reed MIDEM honored him for the 50th anniversary (…)
MIP-TV Report: There’s Still Life on the Media Planet. Organizers See Problems and Solutions
Lots of real news, unsubstantiated rumors — and even an announcement — were swirling around the Palais during the most recent edition of MIP-TV, which ended on Thursday, April 11, (…)
L.A. Screenings Full of Known Surprises
The yearly pilgrimage to the Mecca of entertainment continues with the 56th annual L.A. Screenings, this year taking place May 14-23. But there will be a lot of changes this (…)
Blurred Windows: The Devolution of IP Rights
In order to deal with the devolution of windowing, or the changing patterns of media rights exploitation for audiovisual content, it is necessary to travel back in time to when (…)