Video Age International articles from May 1999

Video Age International archives from May 1999

Ricardo Salinas Faces New Era's Tough Entry.
May 1, 1999... Challenges don't spare youth in Mexico's TV biz A generational shift of control among media moguls is the recent pattern in the Mexican television business. It started in 1993 with Ricardo B. Salinas Pliego, 42, the son of a department...

Los Angeles Screenings Gaining Force.
May 1, 1999... The Los Angeles Screenings, this mysterious, almost mythical event, is causing many sleepless nights for MIP-TV organizers and, even after 35 years, is still leaving international distributors either upset or dumbfounded. This year, Video Age's...

My Two Cents.
May 1, 1999... Let's play the "what if" game using scenarios facing key international TV markets around the world. (This is with the understanding that, as a publication, we have a vested interest in maintaining the status quo.) It is clear that NATPE...

Chinese Cable to Go National.(Brief Article)
May 1, 1999... The State Administration of Radio Film and Television plans to create the Cable Television Network in conjunction with local cable stations. The new network will be the first to reach all of China, which may one day become the largest in the...

Digital Content Focus of DTV '99.(Brief Article)
May 1, 1999... The fifth Digital Television (DTV) Summit, to be held in L.A. this year on September 28, will focus on digital programming announced CEMA President and Summit organizer Gary Shapiro. "We want to work with the content community to ensure that...

U.S. Halts Canadian Film Crews.(Brief Article)
May 1, 1999... Since January, more than 30 Canadian film crews were stopped at U.S. border points in Toronto and Vancouver and refused passage, a Canadian daily reported. The issue was brought to light when Kevin McMahon was turned away from Pearson...

Hungarian Films Starved for Funding, Quality.(Brief Article)
May 1, 1999... Hungary's Ministry of Education plans to submit a bill to the parliament in an effort to help a struggling domestic film industry by increasing state support, setting higher production standards and providing for preferential domestic...

Digital Broadcast Alongside Free TV.(Brief Article)
May 1, 1999... London-based ONdigital began broadcasting its digital TV signal last month, making it the first pay-TV service to air digital programming that can be picked up on a regular antenna. The company, owned jointly by Carlton Communications and...

Canadian MMDS Confident of Future.(Brief Article)
May 1, 1999... Image Wireless Communications, one of three MMDS providers in Canada, unloaded its cable division, Image Cable Systems, last month in an apparent show of confidence for the future of wireless channel distribution. Regional Cablesystems picked...

Japanese Baseball Available Abroad.(Brief Article)
May 1, 1999... Nippon Television Network announced last month that it would begin broadcasting news programming and Yomiuri Giants games, a team in the Japanese baseball league, to viewers in the Asia-Pacific region via satellite. Nippon owns broadcast rights...

E! Entertains the Russians.(Brief Article)
May 1, 1999... E! Entertainment's senior vp, Jon Helmrich, announced at the MIP-TV market E!'s plans to launch its brand into Russia towards the end of May. The new channel closely follows E!'s introduction into Poland this past April. The release of E!...

Record Group Seeks National Reach in Brazil.(Brief Article)
May 1, 1999... The Brazilian television station, Rede Record Group, purchased half of the nationwide network, Rede Mulher, in an attempt to acquire a national reach. Currently, Rede Record programming can be seen in 43 cities across Brazil. Rede Record...

ReplayTV Set to Replace VCR.(Brief Article)
May 1, 1999... Two companies, Replay Networks and TiVo, announced last month the retail release of digital video recorders (DVR), devices that can digitally record television programs. They join Microsoft's WebTV Networks, who announced this past January the...

It's the (Entertainment) Economy, Stupid.
May 1, 1999... President Bill Clinton rode four words into the Oval Office in the 1992 presidential campaign. "It's the economy, stupid." A nation of voters was wooed by a tagline that many at Madison Avenue would have been proud to call their own. What many...

MIP-TV '99: All the News That Can't Fit to Print.
May 1, 1999... Reporting on the developments at MIP-TV is becoming easy. It is sufficient to summarize Video Age Daily's stories and to add a few "after-the-deadline" facts. Reporting on the real news of MIP-TV, for publications such as Video Age, Variety and...

Licensing TV Programs to the Internet: A Business Model.
May 1, 1999... AMENDMENT TO AN EXCLUSIVE LICENSE AGREEMENT In addition to all terms and conditions described and accepted by the parties in the License Agreement, both parties declare hereby their agreement to the following: 1) The Licensee has...

Italy's Power Women: Mothers of All TV Biz.
May 1, 1999... The Italian press was ready for the results of what a survey called "mammoni," people who live with their mothers even at the ripe old age of 40. But it wasn't ready for an entertainment business to be put into the hands of women. Marina...

Programas de TV via Internet: necesidad comercial.
May 1, 1999... La transmision de programas de TV via Internet constituye Ia tendencia actual en las industrias de Internet y de la television. La calidad de esta actividad ha mejorado tanto, que la adicion de archivos "Quick Time" a una pagina Internet...

Produccion francesa sitiada.
May 1, 1999... En Francia, los productores y los distribuidores estan protestando sobre la reciente proposicion de ley que modificaria el sistema de television de ese pais. Dicha ley consiste en reducir el tiempo de duracion de los comerciales en las cadenas...

[Upside down question markl] Sonando con la transmision continua via Internet?
May 1, 1999... Broadcast.com le explica la manera de colocar su programa en la Red Siusted se esta preguntando, coma muchos otros lo hacen, acerca del impacto que va a tener en el futuro la Red Internet sobre la Television, puede que haya pensado ya en...