Video Age International articles from January 1998

Video Age International archives from January 1998

My two cents.(Public Broadcasting Service must remain commercial free)(Column)
January 1, 1998... Here I go again. Once again I'm coming to the defense of public television in America. This time the theme is: Keep PBS commercial-free Currently, public TV systems (some 363 TV stations, the PBS service and corporate parent The...

Discovery travels south.(Discovery Communications acquires The Travel Channel Latin America from Landmark Communications)
January 1, 1998... Discovery Communication has acquired The Travel Channel Latin America from Landmark Communications. The asset purchase included the travel Channel Latin America's six million subscribers and the contents of its program library. "The...

CETV: five Chinese partners.(China Entertainment Television majority share acquired by consortium of China-based companies)
January 1, 1998... A majority share of Hong Kong based China Entertainment Television was acquired late last year by a consortium of five China-based companies. The companies, Beijing Mega Fortune Investment, the China-Asia TV Arts Center, The Chinese TV...

EchoStar: cable doesn't play fair.(EchoStar Communications Corp. files complaint against Rainbow Programming Holdings with Federal Communications Commission)
January 1, 1998... The DBS entity EchoStar Communications Corporation filed a complaint with the FCC late last year against Cablevision subsidiary Rainbow Programming Holdings, alleging that Cablevision has failed to provide EchoStar with regional sports...

Video Age offers online marketing and sales services.
January 1, 1998... Video Age has introduced a new marketing forum for the international television industry: a dynamic online service on a Web site. The Video Age Web site, located at www. videoageinternational.com, is open to all visitors; no subscription is...

A day of panels and prizes in New York.(Events)
January 1, 1998... On November 24, members of the international TV community flocked to the New York Hilton for a full day of panels and speeches at the Worldwide Television Summit Conference, which was followed by the International Emmy Awards Gala that...

Italian ambivalence about television on display at the U.N.
January 1, 1998... Did RAI, Italy's public broadcaster, spend its money well when it put an estimated $600,000 toward organizing the second annual World Television Forum, held November 19-21 at the United Nations in New York? Some would say that the visibility,...

The Miami-NATPE connection for Latin America's TV producers.
January 1, 1998... Why is NATPE like Florida? If you work at a Miami-based television company, the answer is clear: both are crucial parts of the expanding "gateway" between Latin America and North America. Geographic and linguistic factors are making Miami...

The business of film: more science that art.
January 1, 1998... In the movie business, creativity and art seem to be things of the past. Today's film industry strives for predictability of box office over originality of vision: Wall Street meets Main Street. With total U.S. box office receipts of 5.9...

Too may shows, too few time slots?(Syndication)
January 1, 1998... For independent distributors and independent producers who are trying to get a show syndicated, shrinking time slots are indeed a problem. The axiom used to be: "Good programming wins out." This may still be true, but alliances have also...

U.S. television: fluent in many languages.
January 1, 1998... According to the last census, some 14 percent of U.S. residents speak a language other than English at home. Of course, the last census was eight years ago, and while the Census Bureau does update some figures regularly, it hasn't seen fit to...

Poster perfect: the images behind the business.
January 1, 1998... We all know about art for art's sake. The picture painted from passion, the sculpture chiseled away to represent some inner desire or demon. But there is another type of art, the workhorse of the art world, less celebrated because it has a day...

The battle for the U.S. latino audience.(Spanish Networks)
January 1, 1998... In a ring that spans a country, two contenders are facing off, each hoping to capture a lucrative prize. There are some 29 million Latinos in the U.S., comprising 11 percent of the total population, and this sizable segment is expected to grow...

The nature of NATPE: domestic or international?(Markets)
January 1, 1998... International participation at NATPE has increased by 166 percent over the past five years. During that time, international attendance rose from 12 percent of the whole in 1993 to 16 percent in 1995 to 20 percent last year. Attendance gains...