30 years of the Cairo Film Fest.(WORLD)
The Cairo International Film Festival, which ended early last
month, closed with a dazzling ceremony celebrating its 30th year, as
well as its first time co-sponsorship with Cairo-based Telco . . .
Age gets rated on Thai TV.(WORLD)(Brief article)
It's never been easier for TV viewers in Thailand to shield
their kids from inappropriate programs. On December 1, all free-TV
stations in the country began including ratings of recommended . . .
India's TV scene to change in '07.(WORLD)
Indian TV is in a transitional period, and changes are in store.
This, according to the 16th annual Broadcast India Exhibition and
Symposium held last fall in Mumbai.
India's government plans to . . .
Australia puts up its "for sale" sign.(WORLD)
Australia's $7.5 billion-a-year media sector is receiving bids
from some of the world's biggest private equity and media
organizations after the recent passage of laws that will relax rules . . .
Talk of Indian TV gets animated.(WORLD)
The "Changing World of Indian Media," organized last
November by Zion Integrated Services, a Bangalore-based specialized
marketing and information technology company, was an
"animated" event, . . .
France Telecom gets into film biz.(WORLD)
France Telecom (FT) is looking to enter the movie biz, with plans
to invest in 10 to 15 films each year. The partly state-owned
telecommunications group is seeking to acquire minority stakes in . . .
MIT: media future is unpredictable.(WORLD)(Massachusetts
Institute of Technology)(Brief article)(Conference notes)
A two-day "Future of Entertainment" conference, held last
November in Cambridge, MA, and sponsored by the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology's (MIT) Convergence Culture Consortium (a . . .
Broadcasters call reinforcements for primetime TV.
It's that time of year again. NATPE comes around and U.S.
broadcasters sadly acknowledge that some of their most promising fall
shows just aren't cutting it. It's time to bring in the
backups. It's . . .
The long tail form of distribution explained.(dialogue with Chris
Anderson)(Interview)
Chris Anderson is the editor of Wired Magazine and author of
business bestseller, "The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is
Selling Less For More." The phrase The Long Tail itself reflects . . .
Starz: the new studio with aggregation power.(Company
overview)
The master plan is clear. "The goal of Starz," said
chairman and CEO of Starz LLC Robert B. Clasen, "will be to
aggregate audiences by distributing programming across multiple
platforms." But like . . .
Domestic recovery fuels int'l boom for Argentina's
Telefe.
Argentina's president Nestor Kirchner is riding an economic
boom toward reelection and the bright economy has certainly brought
smiles to the faces of Argentineans. And no one could be happier . . .
My two cents.(digital technologies, internet)
The advice given to the young and resourceful used to be: "Go
West, young man." Later, this recommendation became less
geographical and more geological: "Plastics, young man. Go into
plastics." . . .
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New Niche Channels attract distribs to Asia.(Asia TV
Forum)
For a market born from the ashes of MIP-Asia, word is the
four-year-old doing just fine. The Asia TV Forum (ATF) will take place
November 29--December 1 at Singapore's Shangri-La Hotel.
Some . . .
New platforms leave TV execs richly flustered.(MIPCOM
Review)
With a record number of participants (some 12,500--a seven percent
increase over last year), an explosion of high quality content, and a
plethora of new platforms (which helped account for a total . . .
Is the TV biz changing so much that it's staying the
same?(In Search of a Model)
Digital technology and the Internet are rendering the current
television business model ineffective. It was that fact which provided
the impetus for a group of four TV biz experts to meet during . . .
6-6-8: more than just numbers.(6-6-8 Pte Ltd.)(Company
overview)
In many cultures, numerals have as many meanings as words. Take,
for example, the number 17, which is considered evil in Italy, or the
number 13, which is lucky in Italy, but cursed in the U.S. . . .
Digital Multimedia comes to the rescue of
broadcasting.(Cumulative Audience)
Given that, during the first half of 2006, network, local and cable
television advertising in the U.S. remained flat--earning about $28
billion--and Internet ad revenue increased by 19 . . .
Correction.(World)(Correction notice)
In the story entitled "E! Platforms in Cannes: Content is
King; Brand is Queen," which ran in the October issue of VideoAge,
and focused on E!'s new all-platform initiative, E! Everywhere, it
was . . .
Letter to the editor.(WORLD)(Letter to the editor)
Thank you for your 25th Anniversary issue, in which my father and I
are pictured with our old friend, Mr. Armando Nunez, Sr., and Ms. Lori
Shackel. I was also happy to see so many familiar faces in . . .
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