New CEO Calls In a U.S. Team For a “Bigger” RAI
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 (…)
New Media Laws To Affect TV Biz in Hungary, Poland
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 (…)
Is In-Flight Entertainment An IFEey Business For CSPs?
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 (…)
L.A. Screenings Review: Buyers Drowned In a Flood of Content. “Subprime Video” Down, Indie Biz Up
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 (…)
Anticipating The U.S. Nets’ New TV Programming Bets
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 (…)
When FX Affects Bottom Lines, Effects Are Visible
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 (…)
Latin And Turkish Telenovelas After Buyers’ Hearts, Minds (and Wallets)
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 (…)
Formats: Unloved By The Law, Loved By Viewers
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 (…)
Sports in All Television Forms is Going Through A Change — $50 Billion Worth of Change
Sports on television is big business worldwide. It has the most complex license fee structure of all TV content. Sports TV licensing is going through a structural change because of (…)
European Fiction Is Becoming An American Drama
The international television business was founded on the sale of U.S. dramas — initially feature films, but primetime TV drama quickly followed. So, it is no surprise that, from the (…)