Video Age International articles from November 2006

Video Age International archives from November 2006

Latin American TV's challenges in Asia.(television)
November 1, 2006... It's no secret that Asian territories have not been the easiest markets for Western TV distributors--and especially telenoveleros--to penetrate. But, now there's a light at the end of the formerly dark tunnel thanks to the popularity of the...

AFM pays the price for past successes.(American Film Market)
November 1, 2006... "I don't have anything good to say," commented Screen Media Ventures' Almira Malvshev. "The market is very slow because MIPCOM and the AFM are too close to each other." Indeed, the 27th annual American Film Market (AFM), which started on...

NATPE's Feldman spills beans on booths.(Interview)
November 1, 2006... "We are the TV content show; our focus will, continue to revolve around content," stressed NATPE president Rick Feldman during a pre-market interview. But he quickly added "NATPE is [also] a celebration of how people utilize, monetize and...

Jornadas ready for new event organizer.(16th annual Jornadas cable TV convention)(Conference news)
November 1, 2006... Perhaps the anticipated figures were a bit too optimistic, with some 1,500 participants showing up, instead of the 3,000 expected. Nevertheless, the 16th annual Jornadas (Spanish for "days") cable TV convention proved to be its most successful...

IP video blocked in South Korea.(WORLD)
November 1, 2006... Internet service providers (ISPs) and cable TV operators in South Korea are hindering subscribers from watching HanaTV, an Internet video-on-demand service, which launched in July, and is operated by phone company Hanaro Telecom. So far, major...

Film fest blows into Chicago.(WORLD)
November 1, 2006... The 42nd Chicago International Film Festival, North Americas oldest competitive film festival, closed with the Golden Hugo award for Best Film going to Iranian director Asghar Farhadi's Fireworks Wednesday. The competition included 98 feature...

Big Apple's NAB didn't bite a bit.(WORLD)
November 1, 2006... With uninspired panels, the NAB New York conference and exhibition could be characterized as dull. It was not too well organized either; at least not as well as its Los Vegas sister event. The event, held October 23-26, organized by the...

Murdoch's Israeli TV stations.(WORLD)
November 1, 2006... Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. has acquired nine percent of Israel's second commercial TV station, Channel 10. The acquisition of this stake by News Corp. will reduce the 49.9 percent stake jointly held by Ronald Louder of the famed cosmetics...

Tom Moore: book author.(WORLD)
November 1, 2006... Reel Media's founding president, Dallas, TX-based Tom T. Moore, has just published his first book: The Gentle Way (140 pp. $14.95 Light Technology Publishing). It's a book that has nothing to do with film or television. Indeed, it's...

Letter to the editor.(WORLD)(Letter to the editor)
November 1, 2006... 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 this section. I take this opportunity to...

Correction.(World)(Correction notice)
November 1, 2006... 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 erroneously reported that E! owns 200 hours of...

Digital Multimedia comes to the rescue of broadcasting.(Cumulative Audience)
November 1, 2006... 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 percent--totaling $4.7 billion--it can be assumed that the...

6-6-8: more than just numbers.(6-6-8 Pte Ltd.)(Company overview)
November 1, 2006... 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. (This superstition explains why U.S. buildings...

Is the TV biz changing so much that it's staying the same?(In Search of a Model)
November 1, 2006... 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 the most recent MIPCOM. The group informally...

New platforms leave TV execs richly flustered.(MIPCOM Review)
November 1, 2006... 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 4,000 buyers, also a 10 percent increase over...

New Niche Channels attract distribs to Asia.(Asia TV Forum)
November 1, 2006... 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 Asian territories (namely Korea, Thailand and...

Let's do lunch.
November 1, 2006... ASIA TV FORUM NOVEMBER 29-DEC. 1 Singapore TEL: (65) 6780 4631 FAX: (65) 6588 3787 www.reedexpo.com.sg PROMAX LATIN AMERICA DECEMBER 7 Miami, Florida TEL: (310) 789-1520 FAX: (310) 788-7621 ...

My two cents.(digital technologies, internet)
November 1, 2006... 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." Today it is more geophysical: The future is...