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Content Warsaw, NATPE Budapest
Rekindle Competition

The international TV sector is preparing for another faceoff this June, with Canada’s Brunico (NATPE Budapest) vs. the U.K.’s C21 (Content Warsaw). A judge would probably rule that the two (…)

By |May 7th, 2024|Categories: Cover Stories|Tags: |0 Comments

A Look at Hollywood
From a Disillusioned Insider

Ed Zwick’s book is an exposé about Hollywood, but don’t expect to find a hint of that in the title, Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions (Gallery Books, $28.99). However, maybe (…)

By |May 7th, 2024|Categories: Cover Stories|Tags: |0 Comments

Co-Financing Replacing
Old Era Co-Production

During the “Spotlight on Turkey” seminar held at January’s Content Americas in Miami, University of Georgia professor Carolina Acosta-Alzuru offered an academic analysis of the appeal that Turkish TV series (…)

By |March 29th, 2024|Categories: Cover Stories|Tags: |0 Comments

TV Execs Unload Their
Frustrations On TCA Journalists

Diversity was a bone of contention throughout the first days of the Winter Television Critics Association (TCA) Winter Press Tour, held at The Langham Huntington Hotel in Pasadena, California. However, (…)

By |March 29th, 2024|Categories: Cover Stories|Tags: |0 Comments

Will Prestige TV Change
with Streamers in Crisis?

Are we nearing the end of prestige TV? Many such headlines ran last year as a slew of the biggest shows on streamers and cable networks came to an end, (…)

By |March 29th, 2024|Categories: Cover Stories|Tags: |0 Comments

The Little Known Aspects
of Public Domain Films

For over 30 years Texas-based distribution company Reel Media International has distributed movies and series that have fallen into the public domain. That is, film and TV content that has (…)

By |January 9th, 2024|Categories: Cover Stories|Tags: |0 Comments

Affiliates: An Inscrutable TV
Model Key to U.S. Networks

Since the beginning, the foundation of the U.S. television system has been broadcasting the programs nationally, which ultimately led to the creation of an affiliate-TV model. With that model, a (…)

By |January 9th, 2024|Categories: Cover Stories|Tags: |0 Comments

The Weight of the Peso
on Argentina’s TV Biz

Would Argentina’s TV sector replace successful Turkish dramas with Chinese soap operas? Would Turkish companies accept the Chinese Yuan instead of the U.S. dollar for their novelas? Both scenarios could (…)

By |January 9th, 2024|Categories: Cover Stories|Tags: |0 Comments

FAST Channels Everywhere:
It’s Easier Said Than Done

To explain the FAST phenomenon one could ask for comments from the top operators of these Free Ad-supported Streaming Television channels or just call upon the recently formed FAST Alliance. (…)

By |November 27th, 2023|Categories: Cover Stories|Tags: |0 Comments

Public TV License Fees Are
Politicians’ Newest Target

The U.K. has come a long way from TV detector vans seeking out those who hadn’t paid their TV/Radio license fees, which, when they were introduced (in 1923 for radio (…)

By |November 27th, 2023|Categories: Cover Stories|Tags: |0 Comments