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By Leah Hochbaum Rosner

Television executives’ calendars are nearly overflowing with trade shows each year. MIPCOM, MIP-TV, SPORTELMonaco, the L.A. Screenings, NATPE and AFM, among others, have TV (…)

By Leah Hochbaum Rosner

TV ratings measurement has always been a hotly contested issue among broadcasters, many of whom have for years claimed that Nielsen Media Research misrepresented their (…)

By Leah Hochbaum Rosner

Yes, Virginia, there is life after MipDoc. And it comes in the form of Sunny Side of the Doc, the international documentary market, which (…)

By Leah Hochbaum Rosner

Rather than expand vertically, DISCOP grew horizontally this year. In order to accommodate the increased number of exhibitors, organizers made new suites available (…)

By Lucy Cohen Blatter

To attend the annual Licensing International show at New York’s Jacob Javits Center, participants used to have to prepare themselves for cab drivers’ attitudes, costly (…)

By Lucy Cohen Blatter

Last month, almost 10 years to the day he left MGM, international TV executive extraordinaire Gary Marenzi went back to the roaring company to (…)

By Leah Hochbaum

The 28th annual Banff World Television Festival, which takes place June 10-13 at the Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel in Banff, Alberta, is officially under way.

Interestingly, (…)

By Leah Hochbaum

More than 1,500 participants — a whopping 50 percent increase over last year’s numbers — will be in attendance at the upcoming DISCOP 2007 market, to (…)

By Leah Hochbaum

More than 1,500 international television buyers descended upon the City of Angels last week for the 43rd annual Los Angeles Screenings, and while they were there (…)

By Leah Hochbaum

The eighth annual Forum Brasil international TV market, to be held May 30-31 at the Frei Caneca Expo Center in São Paulo, Brazil, will be attended (…)