To sell content, especially to the U.S. and Canada, producers need Errors and Omissions (E&O) insurance to protect buyers if anyone claims any infringement. The insurance covers every aspect of (…)
Of the 156 U.K.-based companies exhibiting at MIPCOM, 122 are from London and, except for brief pauses for Brexit, they have been busy preparing for MIPCOM since June. The bulk (…)
Antonio Campo Dall’Orto (pictured above), the new CEO and director general of RAI, Italy’s state broadcaster, has a problem: He’s not a politician, but a television industry expert. And in (…)
When Hungary’s newly elected conservative Prime Minister Viktor Orbán enacted a new media law in 2010, the E.U. went up in arms denouncing its illiberal bias.
In July 2013 the European (…)
The potential size of the in-flight entertainment (IFE) business is mind-boggling: Around the world, there are over 37 million commercial airline flights each year. These flights are made with 25,000 (…)
In April, the U.S. non-broadcast TV sector (cable and streaming services) introduced 132 new scripted series for the 2016-17 season, 86 of which were dramas. In May, the broadcast industry (…)
One thing was clear from the recent Television Critics Association (TCA) Press Tour: the U.S. networks are constantly trying to come up with innovative strategies to capture eyeballs, and TCA (…)
The recent news that foreign currencies depressed Discovery International’s fourth quarter adjusted cash flow by 16 percent has brought currency exchanges back to the forefront of the international TV business.
Many (…)
Perhaps MIP-TV 2016 will be remembered as a market where exhibitors questioned journalists and not vice versa. “What do you think of this MIP?” was the question most often heard, even (…)
It is, perhaps, a revealing testament to the true nature of the television business that, despite the refusal of courts on either side of the Atlantic and Pacific to recognize (…)
