Video Age International articles from June 1999

Video Age International archives from June 1999

L.A. Screenings: a woman's TV affair.(exhibition of distributors dominated by women)
June 1, 1999... Walking the crowded corridors cluttered with posters and boards at the Century Plaza Hotel (where 85 percent of the 118 companies participating at the L.A. Screenings are exhibiting), one soon notices that a large number of the distributors are...

Keeping track of TV trends is the latest trend.
June 1, 1999... Following the trends of American television is becoming quite trendy among international TV executives. It helps to make an educated guess whether or not a new pilot will make the come judgment day after the November sweeps, and to estimate the...

My two cents.(the lack of a clear universal understanding of what public television is all about)(Column)
June 1, 1999... They're a strange lot, the folks at public TV broadcasting organizations. At the latest MIP- TV,, people from WGBH- TV,, Boston's PBS, were totally unaware of what was going on around their stands. Executives at RAI reorganized management in...

Televix buys Chile's ETC TV.(Televix Entertainment)(Brief Article)
June 1, 1999... Televix Entertainment is purchasing 49 percent of Chile's ETC TV Children's Channel, in partnership with a Dutch financial firm, announced Hugo Rose, CEO of Televix. Televix has sold several series to ETC TV in the past, including Pokemon...

New management at RTSI.(Remigio Ratti to replace Marco Blaser as the head of Italian-language Swiss Television)(Brief Article)
June 1, 1999... Remigio Ratti, a professor of economics, is the new head of Italian-language Swiss Television, soon replacing Marco Blaser at the Helvetic public broadcasters' leadership. The new head of television is now Dino Balestra (former head of...

Rendez-Vous set for France; TVFI meets ZDF.(TV France International; ZDF Enterprise)(Brief Article)
June 1, 1999... TV France International will be hosting its fifth Rendez-Vous screenings at Saint-Tropez the second week in September. Strategically placed three weeks prior to MIPCOM, Rendez-Vous '99 is expecting up to 160 buyers from 50 countries to screen...

U.K. bids on Spanish TV.(Carlton Communications)(Brief Article)
June 1, 1999... A U.K. company joined a consortium in the bidding for a digital terrestrial television license in Spain. Carlton Communications, which delivers digital terrestrial TV to the U.K. through On Digital, entered into a partnership with the group led...

DISCOP '99: a TV window on Eastern Europe.(Brief Article)
June 1, 1999... With 500 million viewers to its name, the Central and Eastern European TV market will make itself heard at this year's DISCOP - if a little less loudly than last year. Due to regional maladies, the attendance roster at DISCOP '99 will be less...

Hollywood says no to violence link.(violence in children claimed to be influenced by motion pictures; Hollywood, California)(Brief Article)
June 1, 1999... Partially in response to the mass shootings in Littleton, Colorado, President Bill Clinton summoned Hollywood executives to the White House for what was essentially a shame-on-you conference on youth violence. But mindful of the legacy of...

Licensing 99 asks: will the force be with you?(children's television properties in the $132-billion worldwide market; Licensing Industry Merchandisers' Association)
June 1, 1999... Star Wars Looms Large; Kids' Shows Not Far Behind With the release this month of The Phantom Menace, Star Wars figures to become the behemoth with regards to licensed properties for 1999. Truth be told, George Lucas' long anticipated...

"Wonderfully scary" digital future at PROMAX '99.(conference of television broadcasting executives)
June 1, 1999... Now in its fourth decade, PROMAX will join conference partner BDA - the international association for marketing and promotion executives in electronic media - in San Francisco, June 9-12. Once again, more than 7,000 experts will share the...

Consolidation, economy reflects on the Jornadas.(Jornadas y Exposicion Internacional de la Industria del Cable, or Cable '99)
June 1, 1999... For many international TV executives, the period between May and July 1999 will be remembered as the great global crisscross. First it's off to the L.A. Screenings in late May, followed by a short hop up to PROMAX in San Francisco. The TV...

Canada celebrates 20 years of TV in Banff.(Banff Television Festival; Banff, Alberta)
June 1, 1999... One must look to the 1978 Commonwealth Games in Edmonton, Canada, to unearth the roots of the Banff Television Festival. The Games included an international, non-competitive film festival organized by Fil Fraser, who is now CEO of Vision TV....

Gravity games are alternative of extreme sports.(includes related article on the renewed international vigor of wrestling)
June 1, 1999... Non-traditional sports distributors are enjoying popularity internationally Alternative sports programs are storming the television airways, as rights to international professional sporting events are being tied up for years by the bigger...