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BY BOB JENKINS BY DOM SERAFINI n a wide-ranging interview with VideoAge, FremantleMedia CEO Tony Cohen ranted, there are many more From France there were Gérard Oury reflected on his 32-year career, assessed what the future holds for the content father and son teams in the and Daniele Oury Thompson who industry and discussed how FremantleMedia has positioned itself to face what international entertainment collaborated on movies. Gérard died Cohen saw as a future that will be as exciting as it will be demanding. industry than there are father in 2006 at the age of 87, his daughter Cohen was appointed CEO when and daughter teams. Indeed, the London-based FremantleMedia we exhausted all (Continued on Page 36) was born in 2001. It was renamed after our resources IBritain’s Pearson Television sold its stakes just to come up with 24 of in RTL Group to Germany’s Bertelsmann. For Top Jobs In a Tough Mart Gsuch teams from 14 countries, A year earlier, Pearson Television had Execs Call On Top Job Finders merged with CLT-Ufa to create RTL and that was by including past Group. Pearson Television was created in players, such as Albert (Cubby) 1996, after the British media conglomerate and Barbara Broccoli. oward Lipson runs Lipson & Co. from his Los acquired All American Television. Another legendary father Angeles headquarters. He’s a veteran executive For a man who has risen to the very and daughter team is that recruiter in the entertainment industry who doesn’t mind being called a “headhunter.” “I sometimes kid top of the audiovisual content business, of 85-year-old Playboy H my clients that they should call me Dr. Headhunter,” said it is not a little ironic that Tony Cohen founder Hugh Hefner and Lipson, who happens to have a Ph.D. in psychology. initially aspired to a career in journalism. 59-year-old Christie who, “I started my career,” he recalled, “on the up until 2009, ran her In a buyers’ market, one wonders why companies need a old Evening News [a London-wide father’s media empire. recruiter, considering that, in the Internet era, companies (Continued on Page 32) (Continued on Page 30)

When Award Is Not a Word

oo many film and television awards. Executives in the entertainment business like to complain about the large number of U.S. and international TV trade shows, but has anyone noticed the proliferation of film Tand TV awards, especially in the U.S.? Inflation has certainly hit the audiovisual sector as well. The growing number of stand-alone awards and those associated with trade shows is really becoming unmanageable, like the U.S. economy. And the U.S. studios seem to be getting fed up with this award inflation, especially the Golden Globes, which are given out by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA). If one counts only the number of major TV and film awards in the three month period from November 2010 to February 2011, the figure reaches an astronomical 27 events. This is without counting local and regional events and film and TV festival awards, which could easily double that figure. In effect, for the four winter months there is one award ceremony every other day. And if other awards bestowed during the remaining months of the year are considered, one can easily see how this wave of statuettes is engulfing the entertainment industry.

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46. My2¢. NATPE’s elevator problems can be stopped MIP-TV preview. A great market waiting to happen by just pushing a few 18. buttons every city on the island now has an video systems, which provided access independent local channel transmitting to adult content via menu selection on UHF. Niche market stations have in the past. increased in popularity over the past Revenue from pay-per-view movies several years as well. in hotel rooms has decreased over the years, as individuals traveling on business have increasingly brought their own entertainment in the form Hotel Nixes of laptops, iPods and Netflix DVDs as technology has evolved. Colliers PKF Adult Videos Hospitality Research reports that hotels terrestrial channels will surely increase. Still, currently earn 39 percent fewer dollars Cyprus Has the launch of this latest channel makes arriott International will from pay-per-view movie rentals than Cyprus one of the most crowded TV and they did 10 years ago. On average, New TV Station no longer provide access radio markets in the European Union. a hotel now collects approximately to adult videos in new Extra TV is the first national station U.S.$175 per room each year, which is yprus launched a new national hotel rooms that open down from $288 in 2000. free-to-air television channel, to operate out of Limassol, one of in the coming years. The Extra TV. The channel was Cyprus’ largest cities. The channel airs hotel group’s decision converted from a regional to soap operas, Greek sitcoms and the reflects the evolution of a national station, bringing the news, as well as content from Athens- entertainmentM technology, and the fact number of terrestrial channels based Alter Network. It joins CyBC, that adult movies are no longer as U.S. Movies Get on the island to 10, and with Mega, Ant 1, Sigma, LTV, Alfa, Plus profitable as they used to be. Kinetic digitalC TV broadcasts expected to begin and ERT, the national broadcaster. Instead, Internet-based video-on- later in the year, the number of island-wide In addition to national networks, demand systems will replace traditional Worldwide

ccording to a report recently released by the Motion Picture Association of America, global box office receipts for films released in 2010 totaled $31.8 billion, marking an increase of eight Apercent from 2009. Although ticket sales in the U.S. and Canada remained steady at $10.6 billion last year, revenue overseas rocketed in 2010 with a 13 percent increase over 2009. Latin America and the Asia Pacific region registered the largest growth, with a 25 percent increase in box office receipts in Latin America and a 21 percent increase in the Asia Pacific region. Together, the two regions accounted for $10.8 billion in 2010 box office revenue. China made up more than 40 percent of the Asia Pacific region’s box office revenue. For the first time ever, Europe, the Middle East and Africa combined accounted for less than half of all international ticket sales at $10.4 billion. One troublesome finding was that, although the overall number of people who went to the movies in 2010 was up three percent from 2009, the number of movies that each person saw decreased from 6.5 in 2009 to six in 2010. This means that the number of tickets sold in the U.S. and Canada fell to 1.34 billion, down five percent from 2009. This somewhat troubling figure is the same number of tickets sold in 2008, representing an unwelcome repeat of history. It’s possible that this reduction is due to the fact that many people can now watch movies on large screen televisions in the comfort of their own homes. Another contributing factor could be ticket prices, which in 2010 totaled an average price of U.S.$7.89 throughout the country (peaking at $13 in cities like New York). This is up $.39 from 2009. However, 3D movies are drawing Nat Abraham, Vice President, Distribution t 416.366.6588 x 114 e [email protected] crowds, accounting for $2.2 billion, Kate Blank, Sales Executive t 416.366.6588 x 234 e [email protected] or 21 percent, of the total $31.8 Laura Lemyk, Sales Executive t 416.366.6588 x 133 e [email protected] billion in box office revenue. In fact, one out of three individuals in the breakthroughentertainment.com U.S. and Canada saw a 3D movie last year.

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million per episode contract does not is left over. However, if Two and a Half not confirmed suspicions, it is speculated expire until May 2012, but after his Men does not go back into production, that these back taxes and penalties were substance-abuse driven behavior, CBS Warner Bros. stands to lose its share of imposed last October due to 74-year-old may choose not to order new episodes that money as well. Additionally, the owner Aydin Dogan’s criticisms of the of the program. Regardless, Sheen has near-term revenue loss for Warner Bros. country’s ruling AK party. The fees add been fired. is $200 million in CBS license fees and up to a sum equivalent to U.S.$2.8 billion. The company appointed Goldman Sachs Not only does the decision put domestic and international rerun money, to advise on possible asset sales. approximately 250 show staffers out but that amount could add up to even of a job and cost CBS the anchor of its more in the future. Reportedly, at least six international (Continued from Page 4) popular Monday night comedy lineup, bidders are biting at the bit to purchase but if production on Two and a Half assets from Dogan Yayin, the media Sheen Aftermath: Men remains suspended, Warner Bros. arm of Dogan Holding. These include could lose tens of millions of dollars in Turkey’s DYH European broadcaster RTL and the U.S.’ Problematic Math syndication revenue. Time Warner, as well as private equity TV Fire Sale firms KKR and Texas Pacific Group On average, local TV stations pay $1 (TPG Capital). In addition, KKR and .S. broadcaster CBS and million for each episode of the show, ogan Yayin Holding Turkish food maker Yildiz Holding’s producer Warner Bros. with cable channel FX reportedly paying unit Gozde Finansal Hismelter formed (DYH), Turkey’s largest Television’s decision to shut $800,000 per episode, meaning that a consortium in early February to bid media group, is selling down production of Two and Warner Bros. could lose about $1.8 million for Dogan Yayin assets. a Half Men for the remainder in lost reruns while the show is in limbo. its assets as a result of of the season will have a a slew of back taxes and Dogan Yayin is fighting the CBS pays Warner Bros. $4 million dollars government’s monetary demands, and ripple effect throughout to produce each episode, and while much fines being imposed on the Hollywood. company. according to Reuters, as of February 7, U of that money goes into making the a top administrative court overturned The show’s star Charlie Sheen’s $2 program, Warner Bros. pockets whatever DAlthough the Turkish government has tax court rulings worth 713.3 million lira ($451.5 million), deciding in favor of the Dogan TV unit.

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BY FARRELL MEISEL ’m now at the seven-month mark since I came to the “Switzerland of Central Asia.” I am hoping this greeting finds all of you well, and counting the days until springtime! The good news is we’ve made some enormous progress with Ithe channel’s development. We’ve just concluded a rebranding exercise modernizing the look of the channel, enhancing the “1TV” symbol, and adding new acquired and original programs to the line-up. We also relaunched our news, developing a branded product for all of our daily news broadcasts. Below is a picture of the director of News & Current Affairs, Mostafa Mahmoud, and me as the news set was being installed in the studio. I’d also like to point out that all the creative work, design of the new News and Current Affairs studio and construction were done locally. Mostafa is a trained physician who couldn’t make ends meet in medicine, so he embarked on a career in journalism.

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Additionally, the BBC and BBC overwhelmingly voted “no” while the in as many weeks, suicide bombers have World News, along with the CBC, CBS viewers at home, numbering around been striking in and outside of Kabul. News, Public Radio International in 10,000 voted 57 percent in favor. As we The weather has been miserable. the U.S., the Huffington Post and other say, “to be continued.” Earlier in February we were hit with news organizations and/or websites Our second program in the series snow and rain, making the already frigid devoted space to the program. started last March and airs at 6 p.m. temperatures a bit more uncomfortable. Another important initiative we The topic: Should there be enduring In mid-February, there were two started was a monthly prime time international military bases after holidays in Afghanistan — Liberation current affairs series entitled Kabul 2014? We have additional current (Continued from Page 6) Day (from the Russians) and Prophet Debate Live. Last year, the taped program affairs projects in production now for Mohammad’s Birthday. That gave me a had a limited run. This year we decided broadcast beginning in Q2 and Q3. chance to get away for three days in their horrific stories on camera behind to produce the series live, again with Additionally, we started carrying Dubai, which was absolutely wonderful, a mask in order to protect their a studio audience, but with a twist. Euronews in Farsi (a similar Persian as always. identities and themselves. Our Current Each member of the 150-plus audience Affairs manager, who is a creative and could vote on the question being posed dialect) twice daily, at breakfast time I’m taking a week’s leave to go to the energetic 28-year-old journalist/lawyer, to our guests using interactive voting and late night. Dari is spoken widely DISCOP Istanbul conference, which is developed the series. devices, similar to the ones used on here, and those who speak and write the first time DISCOP, a growing media CNN gave the premiere prominent Who Wants To Be a Millionaire. The Dari understand the Farsi dialect, which market and conference, is to be held in coverage. It devoted not only a major viewers at home could vote via SMS is the prominent language in Iran. This that wonderful Middle Eastern city. And story to the project, but in its expanded using a special four-digit code. The is the first time Euronews is being seen it won’t be too long before MIP-TV in “Back Story” program, the correspondent first program, which aired at 7 p.m. in Central Asia and Afghanistan. Cannes, so hoping to see some of you in expanded on the details of the issues last February, posed the question of Amidst all the new strategic and either Istanbul or Cannes. surrounding the abuse of women, the whether the Afghan security forces commercial initiatives, Afghanistan and awful statistics, and what organizations are could take over from the international Kabul City have been rocked with an doing here to eliminate the problems. forces in 2014. The studio audience increase in violence. For the seventh time The Lazaruses Get Hospital Coverage

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Miami Market Marked

VideoAge Daily and VideoAge Monthly Momentous Moments at the Tresor tower of the Fontainebleau appreciated by NATPE participants such as NewsProNet’s Deanna Ray, John Cuddihy hat this recent NATPE was effect, made the market a five-day event going to be a success was when, in the past, participants left after evident even before the start. only the second day. On Saturday, January 22, On Monday, January 24, the doors two days before the market officially swung open on the convention opened, two parties were floor, where all was smooth sailing. The held near the Fontainebleau only problem for the floor could have Hotel,T the market headquarters, with been the lack of mid-size companies, many more to follow. In the past, in with the exclusion of Cableready. For Las Vegas, this number of parties was next year, organizers have to make an recorded throughout the entire event extra effort to attract more mid-size and sponsored by the organizers, since distribution companies if the floor is to companies were no longer investing in retain its useful purposes. a dying trade show. Buyers flooding the suites, on the NATPE’s January 24-26 return to other hand, faced 30-45 minute waits in Miami Beach, Florida was, overall, the elevator banks. The flow somewhat considered by participants and organizers improved after NATPE organizers took alike to be a success. This marked the VideoAge’s suggestion to take advantage third time that NATPE has been held CBS Studios’ Eric Muller, Stephanie Pacheco, Warner Bros’ John Garcia, David Stern, Gustavo Gomez, Tomas Davison. of both the lobby and ground floors in Miami Beach, after the 14th edition in to enter and exit the four elevators. 1977 and the 31st iteration in 1994. among which was the problem of too embracing change as a source of energy, (A possible solution for the elevator NATPE CEO Rick Feldman noted few elevators ushering participants to and creativity and strength,” she wrote, problem is presented in this Issue’s “My that this year’s market recorded from company exhibition suites in the elaborating that she hoped the city of Two Cents” editorial.) “substantial growth,” with the some Tresor tower, one of the Fontainebleau’s Miami Beach would become a launch The inconvenience did not deter 4,500 attendees, 702 of which were four towers. Nevertheless, sellers reported pad for many NATPE ventures. acquisitions executives, however, who buyers, representing an overall 22 that business was booming and that Clear signs of NATPE’s revival were out in droves. Where the top buying percent increase over 2010 in Las NATPE could consider itself revitalized. were also evident in the number of the delegations were concerned, Canadian Vegas. Most importantly, all the U.S. After much discussion of whether or aforementioned parties. Although there buyers numbered 36, while the U.S. studios were back in full force, with not the move to Miami would revamp were 12 official parties, in actuality the had the best showing with 200, even both their domestic and international the lagging market, the balmy south number of recreational activities swelled though many buyers represented Latin distribution divisions. Florida city proved to be a welcoming to 20, with some described as “large companies. The contingent from Latin At the same press conference, venue. Case in point was Miami Beach private events.” The celebrations kicked America was predictably strong, with 21 Feldman credited VideoAge’s petulant Mayor Matti Herrera Bower, who off on Saturday and continued in a big way buyers from Argentina, 17 from Brazil, editorials over the past four years for penned a greeting to attendees for through Sunday, even before the market’s 15 from Colombia and 10 from Mexico. the fortuitous move to Miami Beach. Day One of VideoAge Daily. “I like to opening on Monday. Wednesday, the final Buyers were everywhere, at times The event still has a few kinks to think that NATPE and Miami Beach day, saw four parties, the largest of which gathering en masse around the lobby bar work out concerning the venue, foremost have evolved along similar paths by was hosted by Disney. These activities, in at the hotel’s main hall and at the outdoor (Continued on Page 16)

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(Continued from Page 14) industry faces ahead, there were many reasons to be optimistic at NATPE 2011. Day Two’s panel “U.S. Domestic Syndication: Is There A Pulse” reassured VideoAge’s on the spot remedy adopted by audience members that things continue NATPE to look rosy for the syndication biz. John delegation. All studios brought along Nogawski, president of CBS Television their Latin American sales departments, (U.S.) Distribution noted that syndication and many had dedicated Canadian remains “a cost-effective way for stations sales forces as well. Additionally, studio to fill their airwaves and have a franchise executives representing Europe were up, on their station that helps define them especially at NBC Universal and CBS. in their market.” On the flip side, he Also on the studio front, Disney Media pointed to creating suitable content for Networks Latin America (DMNLA) syndication as an ongoing challenge. announced a deal that will see Disney Mitch Burg, president of New York- series The Amazing Race air on TBS’ SPACE based Syndicated Network Television channel. The news was announced at Association (SNTA) also weighed in on the a breakfast press conference organized The docks and the exhibitors’ boats syndication business. Burg and the SNTA by Turner Broadcasting Systems work for the six U.S. studios, gathering and DNMLA on Day Two. Based in bar by the pools. These areas were digital. Between 2015 and 2024, countries information about how marketers can best Argentina, SPACE will carry the third considered fertile ground for some small across Latin America will complete the take advantage of syndication. However, season of the reality show exclusively for distributors who basically “rented” a table conversion, and along with the switch at another seminar, Jeff Zucker, the then all of Latin America. and met with buyers without incurring will come many more programming CEO of NBC Universal, pointed out the cost of a registration badge. hours to fill and the resources to buy that cable networks have to step away Day Two also brought the traditional Brandon Tartikoff Legacy Awards, which Another expedient used by some content for them. from syndication and move into original this year honored Entertainment Tonight’s distributors (Sony Pictures included) to Also on people’s minds were the programming, since on-demand services Mary Hart, along with NBC sports reduce the costs of renting exhibition problems facing Hispanic TV in the have eroded the profitability of the syndication business model. executive Dick Ebersol, retiring TV space or to facilitate meetings, was to U.S. Ad revenues for Spanish-language host Regis Philbin and international TV lease a boat moored on the canal directly channels in the U.S. are down, while Another highlight in the seminar executive Gerhard Zeiler of Germany’s schedule was “Next Generation of TV across from the Fontainebleau, in the style the number of outlets is increasing RTL Group. The awards recognize Digital Measurement.” Nielsen’s Cheryl found at the port in Cannes for MIP and exponentially. Last year ad revenues for individuals who demonstrate passion, Idell moderated a panel exploring the MIPCOM. the sector dropped $100 million, leaving a leadership and independence in the meaning, goals and future of TV As a result of the substantial Latin growing number of networks competing creation of television programs. for a shrinking pie. And with Comcast measurement. Idell and her roster of presence, NATPE accounted for an As the market began to wind down, set to complete its 60 Spanish-language guests took on new technology and estimated $100 million in deals (including convention floor talk turned, inevitably network lineup, the situation promises subscription based business models in those initiated at MIPCOM last October to the next market. For many, this was to only grow more difficult. Plus, the Internet content delivery. and those to be completed here at MIP). to be DISCOP Africa, which took challenge of keeping third and fourth After spotty attendance in 2010, the Plus, distributors were on hand with plenty place February 9-11 in Accra, Ghana. generation bilingual audiences engaged in “800 lb gorillas” (i.e. the U.S. studios) of telenovelas. VideoAge Daily counted Companies from Latin America and around 18 never before seen novelas Hispanic programming is ever-present. were back at NATPE. And naturally, they took the opportunity to go all out, Europe confirmed their attendance making their premieres at the market, With the U.S. retrans fee hitting $1 billion with suites in Tresor tower (or the hotel’s at the event, and Patrick Jucaud of including titles from Caracol, Globo TV, in 2010, the topic was prevalent (retrans is Versaille wing for Warner Bros.) and organizing company Basic Lead pointed Record TV, Telefe, Frecuencia Latina the fee that broadcasters negotiate with cabanas out by the pool, which became out that many IPTV platforms were to International, Telemundo and others. cable, satellite and broadband operators). very useful for taking meetings while be on the hunt for content. The convention floor was abuzz with But despite predictions that by 2016 the avoiding the elevator jam. There were In the weeks after the market, NATPE many of the issues facing TV in Latin fee will reach $2.6 billion, there was no around 185 studio executives gracing the organizers announced that next year’s America, including the challenge of DTT session addressing the subject at NATPE. hallways of the Fontainebleau, and Warner event will be tentatively held January and the switchover from analogue to In spite of the obstacles that the TV Bros., with a team of 40, had the biggest 23-25, 2012.

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16 VIDEO • AGE A PRIL 2 0 1 1 videoage_finished programs_2011.indd 1 14/03/11 15:59 environmental issues), engaging factual formats for both acquisition and commissioning, food programming from around the world, fresh and MIP-TV Sirens provocative dramas and comedies and accessible entertainment shows for the early evening,” said Roscoe. Though it remains to be seen what programming trends will be hot at this year’s market, some executives had predictions. Patrick Elmendorff, Indies Getting More Attention managing director of Munich-based Studio 100 Media pointed to the revival of classic series as one thing to watch for. He elaborated that he expects Hope Translates Into More Sales to see a boom in “the production of CGI state-of-the-art animation series based on classic children’s publishing he birds are singing, which properties or toys which are meant can only mean one thing: to attract children and parents.” MIP is in the air. The days Elmendorff also observed that “cross- are getting longer, but MIP- media productions as well as web TV 2011 — set to return and mobile devices are increasingly to its traditional venue, the important,” a trend which First Hand Palais des Festival in Cannes, Films’ Messel also highlighted. France,T April 4-7 — is getting shorter: MIPCOM 2010 played host to a One day shorter from the previous World Premiere TV Screening, and edition. MIP-TV will continue the tradition Aside from CBS Studios and NBC- with the international debut of GK-TV’s Universal (now owned by Comcast), medieval drama Camelot. Co-stars Eva which will have the customary elaborate Green and Joseph Fiennes will be on stands, the other U.S. studios will not hand for this gala event, which will be in full attendance. Some think that take place on Day One and will be this may make for a quiet market, presented by GK-TV and Starz. however indies will surely receive much Where keynotes are concerned, more attention from buyers. Rodolphe Belmer, executive vice president, Content at Canal Group and “It could be a very light MIP,” said Irv its second year, but has so far been Greg Phillips, president, Content Holender of Toronto-based Fremantle David Frank CEO of Zodiak Media well received amongst participants Television and Content Digital for Group will each make a speech on Corp. of the studios’ absence. But, since its inaugural edition in 2010. London-based Fireworks International other executives VideoAge talked to Day One. Meanwhile, Hans Vestberg, Like MIPDoc, MIPFormats will have stated that his team will “focus on president and CEO of Ericsson and were optimistic that the dearth of a variety of seminars on tap, including all territories with equal importance.” studio stands could clear a path for the Miles Young, CEO of Ogilvy and a panel titled “Format Programming Fireworks will also be launching a host Mather Worldwide will get their independents. Strategies: What Buyers Want” and a of new titles across a variety of genres, chances on Day Two. As usual, MIP activities kick off focus on Latin America on its first day. including two new non-fiction series, a This time around, conference sessions with MIPDoc, the market’s dedicated The return of MIPFormats ensures crime solving adventure and a thriller. will tackle a slew of subjects, including documentary event, which will take that formats will continue to be an Additionally, Phillips emphasized that the ever-elusive new media. The Content place April 2-3, two days before the important worldwide programming this MIP-TV is especially important to 360 panels on Day One and Two will start of the MIP-TV proper. This year, the company, as it will be attending for trend. Many companies will be using teach execs how to pitch cross-media MIPDoc has a lot to offer companies the first time ever “under the recently the market as a launch pad for their new projects, smart phone apps and media that specialize in factual entertainment, announced new banner of Content formats. CEO Jon Kramer noted that tablet programs and a Day One seminar with a packed schedule of seminars, Media Corporation, operating as three his Los Angeles-based Rive Gauche will explore “How to Achieve Creative keynotes and matchmaking events. Also distinct divisions — Content Television, will be active on the distribution Excellence.” Asia will also be a major of note is the MIPDoc Co-Production Content Digital and Content Film.” side, but also emphasized that Rive topic, with Day Two’s “Working With Challenge, now in its seventh year, Gauche is “focused on developing Fremantle’s Holender remarked that Asia” workshop and Day Three’s Asian which is designed to help breakout original formats and pitching them his sales team will have their noses to Animation Screenings. producers find funding. Plus, MIPDoc internationally.” Kramer elaborated the grindstone. “We’re still focusing This year, attendance figures look will get its own opening night cocktail that, “It’s just become too difficult to on European co-productions and the good with an estimated 11,500 overall party at the Majestic Hotel. hold on to rights in the U.S.” new vitality in the Asian market for attendees from 107 countries in the TV, Jonathan South senior director of As for the sellers, MIP and MIPCOM co-productions.” Holender also stated digital and advertising fields, including International Content Sales, EMEA for have always brought out the European that he would be avoiding selling any 4,000 buyers and 1,500 exhibitors. The new York-based AETN International crowd, and this year will be no exception. one-off programming. “What we try to reason why this year the trade show noted that for his company, MIPDoc Zurich-based First Hand Films will stay away from is the one shot deals,” is one day shorter remains elusive. is a big attraction. “As MIPDoc is be on hand with sales goals for the he said. “The single events and single The move doesn’t seem to benefit held alongside MIP-TV,” he said, “We U.S., the U.K., Latin America and Asia. specials consume as much time as full distributors, who said that costs will always find many new clients that CEO Esther van Messel stated that her series do.” stay basically the same, while they’ll have screened our programs there and strategy for the market is to present all For their part, the buyers will have one day less to meet with buyers, consequently come visit our stand.” the new titles in the company’s catalogue be on the hunt for a wide range of considering that the previous five- This year, AETN is bringing to market to buyers, but target certain programs product, as usual. Jane Roscoe, day event became in effect a four-day what South referred to as the firm’s towards the tastes of their existing network programmer for Australia’s market, since buyers leave earlier and “strongest slate ever of real life focused clients. “Each territory is different,” SBS Television said that her meeting exhibitors use the last day to pack up. series,” and plans to target buyers she said, “For example, Asian audiences schedule is, for the most part, booked, With a shorter event, exhibitors are from France, Germany, Scandinavia seem to be interested in Western stories but her team is “always on the lookout thus expecting an effective three-day and Benelux, who have all shown an that have a human interest angle, where for new content and suppliers as [they] market. The fact that the Palais will open appetite for this type of programming. as current affairs programs are just a walk the floors of the Palais.” SBS, earlier and close later will have little Another mini-event, MIPFormats, little harder to sell in Asia. It’s ultimately like many major broadcasters, will be redeeming value because participants will also run simultaneously with about keeping abreast of all viewing acquiring content across a number of use the morning for breakfast meetings MIPDoc. MIPFormats, which takes trends and tailoring programming to genres. “Priorities include ‘big idea’ and the afternoons and evenings for place April 2-3 as well, is only in the buyers’ needs.” documentary series (science, politics, parties and/or dinners. ES

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The L.A. Screenings Shaping Up After Sheen Shenanigans

BY LUCY COHEN BLATTER (as usual). Blighty formats can be (in view of the success of the ABC Thom Sherman, head of Drama at the CW ll eyes are on CBS and difficult to recreate, but NBC seems to series Modern Family). Take ABC’s Bad Warner Bros. these days. At be banking on them. The Peacock Net Mom (ABC Studios), which stars Jenna supernatural in the works. Thank press time, both industry is offering up its own version of police Elfman as a less-than-stellar mom, and you Twilight. The CW has three (out insiders and regular joes procedural Prime Suspect (Universal Other People’s Kids (ABC Studios), about of its total six commissioned pilots): were waiting with bated Studios), comedy Outnumbered (Fox an irresponsible 32-year-old who falls in Awakening (Warner Bros.), about breath to find out the Studios), based on a comedy about a love with an older woman and has to a zombie uprising; Heavenly (CBS post-Charlie Sheen fate of couple trying to raise three precocious deal with two kids, an ex-husband, and Studios), which revolves around a ATwo and a Half Men. But believe it or kids and Free Agents (Universal ex-in-laws. CBS has the Rob Schneider former angel; and Secret Circle (CBS not, there are other shows out there, Studios), based on a format about two Project (CBS Studios), which stars the Studios/Warner Bros.), about a young and the 2011-2012 U.S. TV season is quirky co-workers who are both on the comedian as a confirmed bachelor female witch. Thom Sherman, head nearly upon us. rebound. who has just married into a tight-knit of Drama at the network, described The five big U.S. TV networks — From Israel, NBC has ordered an Mexican-American family. FOX has Awakening as a “provocative script and ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC and CW — eight-episode format, Still Standing: Council of Dads (Sony Pictures), about a the most unique piece of material we have commissioned 84 pilots among a straight-to-series game show group of five men called together by the read and developed this year — a them. And the scripts and stars are commissioned to Armoza Formats. widow of their close friend in order to huge, fun, swing-for-the-fences kind of hoping to take the world by storm (in NBC, now under the direction of help her raise his two young children. project.” addition to actually getting picked up), Robert Greenblatt, is courting a lot CBS seems to be attempting to appeal While Sherman stressed the fact that despite their lack of what Sheen is said of big names in order to get back to its younger viewers with two comedies the network is equally excited about to have, “tiger blood.” on top. Highly buzzed-about series about young people trying to make it its non-supernatural pilots, it’s hard Sure there are the usual police and include Wonder Woman (Warner Bros.) big: The Assistants (CBS Studios), which to ignore the past success of shows medical dramas and quite a few remakes and Playboy (Fox Studios), from Brian revolves around four people who work such as Smallville, Supernatural and The and series that are giving us deja vu. But Grazer and Ron Howard, about 1960s for a celebrity couple, and an Untitled Vampire Diaries. So the hopes for the there are also a number of new and Playboy Bunnies. Peter Knight Comedy (Sony Pictures/CBS fantasy series are high. interesting pilots, the likes of which Now, back to the trends. Unsurprisingly Studios), about young people working Now, we know Charlie Sheen has we’ve never seen before. given the runaway success of Glee, at a high-powered venture capital firm. stolen the spotlight as the most-talked- Take for instance, ABC’s Poe (Warner musicals are showing up again. ABC And ABC is getting in on the action about TV star of the moment (and Bros.). It’s a crime procedural, but a has Marc Cherry’s Hallelujah (ABC too. The Alphabet Net’s Georgetown possibly all time), but the networks are pretty unique one at that. The drama Studios), a drama that will be punctuated (Warner Bros.) follows young people pulling out other big guns to star in follows macabre writer Edgar Allan with gospel music and NBC’s Smash working behind the scenes of D.C.’s their pilots. ABC has cast Ashley Judd Poe as the world’s very first detective, (Universal Studios), which will showcase powerbrokers. in its already-picked up drama Missing investigating dark mysteries in 1840s musical theater. And lest one thinks that the vampire (ABC Studios), about a woman on a Boston. On the comedy side, there’s an trend is a thing of the past, note mission to track down her son in Italy. Even the remakes sound intriguing. abundance of wacky, modern families that every network has something FOX is hoping for another 24-sized hit, And they’re certainly generating a lot tapping Kiefer Sutherland for Touch of buzz. There’s NBC’s Wonder Woman (Fox Studios), about a dad whose autistic (Warner Bros.), a David E. Kelley-led son can predict the future. NBC’s got reboot of the classic comic and ABC’s movie star Maria Bello playing the lead Charlie’s Angels (Sony Pictures), a remake role in the Universal Studios-produced of the 1970s classic set in Miami, which Prime Suspect (a role made famous by is being produced by one of the recent Helen Mirren in England). FOX has film remake’s angels, Drew Barrymore. tapped Ethan Hawke for spy thriller We at VideoAge are guessing that with Exit Strategy (Fox Studios). Minnie the recent success of the remake Hawaii Driver stars in Hail Mary (Warner , and Barrymore’s star power, Five-O Bros.), a series for CBS about a pair of this is a pretty sure thing in terms of private investigators, one of whom is a pick-up potential. suburban single mom. Debra Messing In the spin-off category, there’s FOX’s will bust out her singing chops in The Finder (Fox Studios), about a former NBC’s Smash (Universal Studios). military policeman who can remember Whether or not the stars will make everything. It’s a spin-off of the net’s the series bonafide pick-up shoo-ins forensic crime drama, Bones. David Boreanaz and Emily Deschanel star as FBI Special Agents on FOX’s Bones. A spinoff is, naturally, still unknown. Only L.A. There are also several British remakes pilot, The Finder, has been commissioned by FOX. Screenings time will tell.

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Canadian Masters Muster

JFL’s straight guys. The sales team with, L.to r.: Sari Buksner, Shawn Rosengarten, Torn between two lovers… time to decide! Laughable Art That Travels Michelle Raymond, Daniel Galve FORMAT & FINISHED SERIES the shows per territory, Buksner gave the example of Five TV network in omedy doesn’t travel,” is in the usual “Blame Canada” theme the U.K. for which JFL packaged eight the traditional television (from the South Park animated show), shows that showcased British comics mantra. But, this could JFLG is blamed for tardiness at MIP- who have performed at the Festival. be true for every part TV. This is because the big screen of the world, except found outside the Cannes’ Palais that Through a “production license” for funny television continuously shows JFL’s gags, is JFL has also worked with RTE shows made in Quebec, considered one of the causes for people (Ireland), Network Ten (Australia), Canada, that require no dubbing, subtitles being late for meetings, since they are WDR (Germany), BBC (U.K.) and “Cor voiceovers. stopped in their tracks — no matter NHK (Japan). The British version was produced by JFL North Ireland’s Candid Camera was the first hidden how fast they’re walking — by the funny gags on display. MIP participants seem partner, Wild Rover Productions camera reality show and the first format and was broadcast on BBC One on A small band of cops try to keep order to be sold to various countries, where it to reserve particular attention to those Saturdays for five seasons until 2006. became popular with local versions. It gags that show nude or partially clad in the wild Australian outback. Gilbert Rozon is the founding chairman of girls, but Sari Buksner, JFL’s director, In addition, JFL has been successful in FINISHED SERIES reigned sovereignly worldwide until 1983, JFL Group. He started working at 14 as a when a few creative people from Quebec gravedigger, and later became a lawyer Sales and Development, was quick to Finland, Holland, India and Singapore. point out that “those clips called Naked Producing gags in Singapore has proved a decided to take seriously the derisive of the laugh festival, which in English attitude that the French in Europe and & Funny, are not produced by us, though real challenge, considering the city-state’s translates to “Just For Laughs” or English-speaking people in Canada were we distribute them.” seemingly reserved, stern and shy nature, JFL (possibly because the French JPR showing towards French Canada, and Currently, according to Buksner, where it’s impossible to even walk in sounds too close to a GPR stabilizer), reacted in kind, making everyone laugh JFLG is sold to practically every place public streets and chew gum at the same Rozon started to produce a television with them. on land and in the air, which, as officially time. However, Pierre Girard leveraged version, called Just For Laughs Gags reported, numbers 135 territories and the discomfort that Singaporeans have In 1983, Gilbert Rozon, then a 29-year- JFLG ( ), incorporating 13 “gags” into 95 airlines. “In fact,” she explained, towards being touched, to create hilarious old possibly not having much fun as a 22-minute episodes. Today, the company lawyer, founded “Juste pour rire,” a two- “In some countries, the show is airing gags. What he couldn’t do was utilize has amassed 224 episodes, churned out on three networks simultaneously: One policemen for the gags because people day laugh-a-thon festival in Montreal, at a rate of 13 new episodes per year, Quebec, which in 1985 became a month- network gets the first run and others were scared of them. minimum. That means that the creative the reruns.” JFL, which has 200 staff long event every July, making it the team at JFL has had to come up with So what’s next for JFL? “Our largest festival of its kind in the world. employees, generates about C$100 objective this year is to produce a new See how Mom takes control! over 2,000 different gags. million in annual gross revenue. At the same time, another Québécoise gags show for a younger demographic, FORMAT The process of producing gags isn’t To executives, selling at JFL is just and we hope to go into production company, Groupe Multimedia, began as easy as it looks. JFL starts with 500 distributing Just Kidding, a video prank like monetizing cows or pigs: No parts as soon as this summer,” commented scripts (called “bibles”) created by up to go to waste. So, in 1996, after showing Michelle Raymond, VP International TV show imported from Australia. eight seasoned writers. Out of those, 250 Unrelated, but still in the realm of highlights from the Festival on Canada’s Distribution, adding: “Co-viewing NEW go into production each year utilizing a CBC, The Comedy Network and TVA, [TV viewing as a family] is the buzz HIT DRAMA funny entertainment, in 1984 Guy “bank” of 25 actors — 18 adults and Laliberté founded “Cirque du Soleil,” they started to market and export the word, and broadcasters understand that SERIES seven children. However, 25 percent also in Montreal. Festival’s stand up comedy acts outside [JFLG] is the perfect family show to of those gags are discarded, because on Canada. This, Buksner pointed out, bring kids and parents sharing a good At the time, creativity in Quebec tape they are not as funny as they were was a “Challenge. But the company has time together.” was under competitive pressure from on paper. To film one gag, more than found profitable and creative ways to neighboring Ontario, where in 1975, five hours of raw footage is shot, often export their stand up comedy brand Lorne Michaels from Toronto created involving up to 30 “victims.” Post- internationally.” for NBC Saturday Night Live, one of production takes an average of nine After Mark’s death Karen and Nina discover that they were deceived. America’s funny shows, and in 1976, As far as JFLG is concerned, the show hours per gag, including adding original is sold in several forms: As finished For years he divided his life between them… Andrew Alexander developed Second music (by three in-house composers), City Television for Toronto’s Global product (by selling full episodes rather FORMAT & FINISHED SERIES which brings the total cost for each gag than individual gags), custom packaging TV network, which quickly became to C$10,000: A sum which is nothing Canada’s funniest TV show. the show per territory, and selling to just laugh at. through a “production license.” In that period, the pressure was so Each episode follows The secret for the worldwide success In the case of “custom packaging” high that les Québécoise even started to of JFLG can be attributed to the the one-year journey consider secession from the Canadian fact that there is no dialogue, just federation to become an indie country. of individuals who background music and canned laughter lose half their weight Ontario seconded the motion, hoping to to gags that appeal to all age groups put an end to bi-lingual street signs. But, and cross boundaries. “We don’t laugh and re-gain their life! as soon as people in Quebec realized that at people, we laugh with them,” JFL’s the move would have pleased Ontario, they stopped seeking secession, thus executive and creative producer Pierre proving that humor solves all problems. Girard said, “When you watch the Subsequently, Rozon was able to unify show, you want to be in the place of the the country by sharing some of his ‘victim’ — that’s our success.” Festival’s stand-up specials with the In addition, the whole company is FORMAT & FINISHED SERIES geared for laughter, with a website (and Andy Nulman is back at JFL after a 12-year nation, showing them in prime-time on hiatus, as president, Festivals and Television. CBC’s national English network, and corresponding e-mail addresses for He introduced JFL’s Anglophone events back Pierre Girard is JFL’s executive and creative TVA in French Canada. executives) called www.hahaha.com. in 1985. He’s now working on a solution in producer. His motto is: “Just because we order not to have just one life to live. In the year 2000, on the strength According to an informal survey, and laugh, it doesn’t mean it is funny.”

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Who and What Are Buying

In The Age of Selling Cineflix’s Caroline Schroeter

elevision has always been staples as Mayday, Nazi Hunters, Huge for one of the smaller channels. And, co-producing with local partners.” a very parochial business Movies 5 and How Machines Work. although she said she has, “occasionally Where sales are made Silva reported and with the inexorable Other genres she reported as selling done deals with local distributors that that, “prices are generally steady, with rise of the format, it include Pay, VoD and IPTV rights, well include factual entertainment the obvious exception of Venezuela seems that it is becoming she nonetheless noted that, “in general aimed at a female middle class audience where the government has taken over ever truer. However, the there is little or no windowing in these such as Rags To Red Carpet, and shows a number of stations causing the prices origins of the international with a known international celebrity markets.” content business were firmly rooted in to fall dramatically.” He conceded that, T host such as Ty Pennington’s Inside The Another part of the world where “recently some of the Pan-Regional the business of licensing transmission Box or John Barrowman’s Animals At program licensing still plays an operators have been more aggressive of existing shows. VideoAge reviewed Work. Although she cautioned that, important part in the audiovisual with their pricing.” those markets where this quaint custom “for factual entertainment, it is crucial content business is Latin America. Here, still holds sway. that the cast is convincing and there is windowing is very much a part of the The markets of sub-Saharan Africa One region of the world where a strong storyline with a unique selling equation. “The first window,” asserted have a structure that broadly resembles the purchase of a license to transmit point.” Tomas Silva, sales executive at Rive that of Latin America. Andreas rather than a format to produce is As a general rule, Schroeter reported, Gauche, “is always the Pan-Regional Boenisch, VP, Sales at Zodiak Rights still very much mainstream is the “broadcasters in these countries are operators such as Discovery, HBO, said, “Two years ago, our business C.I.S. territories. However, Caroline mostly interested in programming from Turner etc., which cover the entire was mainly focused on South Africa, Schroeter, sales manager at British English-speaking markets, mainly the region. Then there are some second Nigeria, and the Pan-African global producer and distributor Cineflix, U.S., U.K. and Canada.” She continued, window Pan-Regionals such as Mexico’s players such as BBC Worldwide and cautioned that, “the media landscape “This is especially true of fiction and Multivision or Argentina’s Pramer, and Discovery, and, of course, the South in the C.I.S. territories has changed factual entertainment. A show from the others. These companies cover the African players such as MNET, e.tv and dramatically since the breakup of the U.S. would almost always be preferred whole region with the exception of TopTV. Now, however, we are seeing a Soviet Republic, with new investors, to a similar show from France or Portuguese-speaking Brazil, which lot of activity in other sub-Saharan new channels and an expanding TV is covered by Globosat. After these Germany, for example.” countries such as Kenya, Uganda, Network.” operators,” continued Silva, “it is a The volume that is bought will, Ghana, Zimbabwe and Ethiopia.” One case of going country by country and Russia’s television industry, though of course, vary considerably from key difference, however, between Latin broadcaster by broadcaster. In terms of dominated by well-established broadcaster to broadcaster, with large windowing, the FTA channels are the America and sub-Saharan Africa is broadcasters such as Channel 1, CTC channels such as Channel 1 producing a very last, even after DVD.” Illustrating that a number of the large satellite and Rossiya TV, also has several DTH lot of local content and as a consequence, this point, Silva cited the example of operators are launching new services, platforms as well as a cable industry buying in a lot less, although Schroeter “a Hollywood blockbuster, which will either niche satellite services such as serving several million homes and did point to “a focus more on high- have been seen everywhere by the time action channels aimed at young men, a growing IPTV and VoD sector. end documentaries for weekly slots,” it gets to free TV. It will air first on or lifestyle or documentary. Schroeter acknowledged that, “there among its main acquisitions. By Premium Pay, and possibly PPV, then has been an increase in local television contrast, smaller channels will produce The market is changing in other ways on secondary pay such as Multivision production reflecting a national identity, a lot less and buy more, “in excess of as well. “There are a lot of new players and Pramer, and then on DVD.” especially in Russia and Ukraine,” but 500 hours per year,” was her estimate entering the market now, especially in also insisted that, “C.I.S. and the Baltic In many ways this identifies the the four key markets I have already states are still massive territories in difference between the Pan-Regional mentioned,” reported Boenisch, “and terms of traditional TV acquisitions.” operators and local free stations. they are often prepared to buy in high She believes the future for acquisitions The local stations buy in very little volume. So it is increasingly worth in this region looks bright as well, programming, around 15 percent to considering doing a number of local commenting, “the arrival of new 20 percent with the majority of the big deals rather than one, all encompassing, channels and the expanding pay-TV Hollywood programming going to the deal with a satellite operator.” sector in this region will create new Pan-Regionals, but the programming business opportunities in the future.” the local free stations produce is much Generally sub-Saharan countries buy from English-speaking markets and While these opportunities do exist more targeted at their local audiences. Boenisch reported, “We have done very and, as Schroeter said, are expanding in Silva said that the amount of parts of the region, not all programming programming bought by the Pan- well, for example, with So You Think You is popular with buyers. According to Regional operators is very difficult to Can Dance and Don’t Forget The Lyrics.” Schroeter, the most popular genres estimate, “because so many of them Shows like these, he noted, “have been are, “the classic high-end documentary are contractually bound to take a large produced in local versions in South with history, culture or science as a percentage of their schedule from Africa and Nigeria, and with the number central topic.” Underlining this, she their U.S. parents, and also because of channels increasing, content from cited “successful sales to the C.I.S. some, such as HBO, Turner, Discovery, other genres, such as lifestyle and crime, and Baltic territories,” of such Cineflix Zodiak Rights’ Andreas Boenisch MTV and A&E are quite active in is becoming more important.”

24 VIDEO • AGE A PRIL 2 0 1 1 Buying Vs. Producing

Who and What Are Buying

In The Age of Selling Cineflix’s Caroline Schroeter elevision has always been staples as Mayday, Nazi Hunters, Huge for one of the smaller channels. And, co-producing with local partners.” a very parochial business Movies 5 and How Machines Work. although she said she has, “occasionally Where sales are made Silva reported and with the inexorable Other genres she reported as selling done deals with local distributors that that, “prices are generally steady, with rise of the format, it include Pay, VoD and IPTV rights, well include factual entertainment the obvious exception of Venezuela seems that it is becoming she nonetheless noted that, “in general aimed at a female middle class audience where the government has taken over ever truer. However, the there is little or no windowing in these such as Rags To Red Carpet, and shows a number of stations causing the prices origins of the international with a known international celebrity markets.” content business were firmly rooted in to fall dramatically.” He conceded that, T host such as Ty Pennington’s Inside The Another part of the world where “recently some of the Pan-Regional the business of licensing transmission Box or John Barrowman’s Animals At program licensing still plays an operators have been more aggressive of existing shows. VideoAge reviewed Work. Although she cautioned that, important part in the audiovisual with their pricing.” those markets where this quaint custom “for factual entertainment, it is crucial content business is Latin America. Here, still holds sway. that the cast is convincing and there is windowing is very much a part of the The markets of sub-Saharan Africa One region of the world where a strong storyline with a unique selling equation. “The first window,” asserted have a structure that broadly resembles the purchase of a license to transmit point.” Tomas Silva, sales executive at Rive that of Latin America. Andreas rather than a format to produce is As a general rule, Schroeter reported, Gauche, “is always the Pan-Regional Boenisch, VP, Sales at Zodiak Rights still very much mainstream is the “broadcasters in these countries are operators such as Discovery, HBO, said, “Two years ago, our business C.I.S. territories. However, Caroline mostly interested in programming from Turner etc., which cover the entire was mainly focused on South Africa, Schroeter, sales manager at British English-speaking markets, mainly the region. Then there are some second Nigeria, and the Pan-African global producer and distributor Cineflix, U.S., U.K. and Canada.” She continued, window Pan-Regionals such as Mexico’s players such as BBC Worldwide and cautioned that, “the media landscape “This is especially true of fiction and Multivision or Argentina’s Pramer, and Discovery, and, of course, the South in the C.I.S. territories has changed factual entertainment. A show from the others. These companies cover the African players such as MNET, e.tv and dramatically since the breakup of the U.S. would almost always be preferred whole region with the exception of TopTV. Now, however, we are seeing a Soviet Republic, with new investors, to a similar show from France or Portuguese-speaking Brazil, which lot of activity in other sub-Saharan new channels and an expanding TV is covered by Globosat. After these Germany, for example.” countries such as Kenya, Uganda, Network.” operators,” continued Silva, “it is a The volume that is bought will, Ghana, Zimbabwe and Ethiopia.” One case of going country by country and Russia’s television industry, though of course, vary considerably from key difference, however, between Latin broadcaster by broadcaster. In terms of dominated by well-established broadcaster to broadcaster, with large windowing, the FTA channels are the America and sub-Saharan Africa is broadcasters such as Channel 1, CTC channels such as Channel 1 producing a very last, even after DVD.” Illustrating that a number of the large satellite and Rossiya TV, also has several DTH lot of local content and as a consequence, this point, Silva cited the example of operators are launching new services, platforms as well as a cable industry buying in a lot less, although Schroeter “a Hollywood blockbuster, which will either niche satellite services such as serving several million homes and did point to “a focus more on high- have been seen everywhere by the time action channels aimed at young men, a growing IPTV and VoD sector. end documentaries for weekly slots,” it gets to free TV. It will air first on or lifestyle or documentary. Schroeter acknowledged that, “there among its main acquisitions. By Premium Pay, and possibly PPV, then has been an increase in local television contrast, smaller channels will produce The market is changing in other ways on secondary pay such as Multivision production reflecting a national identity, a lot less and buy more, “in excess of as well. “There are a lot of new players and Pramer, and then on DVD.” especially in Russia and Ukraine,” but 500 hours per year,” was her estimate entering the market now, especially in also insisted that, “C.I.S. and the Baltic In many ways this identifies the the four key markets I have already states are still massive territories in difference between the Pan-Regional mentioned,” reported Boenisch, “and terms of traditional TV acquisitions.” operators and local free stations. they are often prepared to buy in high She believes the future for acquisitions The local stations buy in very little volume. So it is increasingly worth in this region looks bright as well, programming, around 15 percent to considering doing a number of local commenting, “the arrival of new 20 percent with the majority of the big deals rather than one, all encompassing, channels and the expanding pay-TV Hollywood programming going to the deal with a satellite operator.” sector in this region will create new Pan-Regionals, but the programming business opportunities in the future.” the local free stations produce is much Generally sub-Saharan countries buy from English-speaking markets and While these opportunities do exist more targeted at their local audiences. Boenisch reported, “We have done very and, as Schroeter said, are expanding in Silva said that the amount of parts of the region, not all programming programming bought by the Pan- well, for example, with So You Think You is popular with buyers. According to Regional operators is very difficult to Can Dance and Don’t Forget The Lyrics.” Schroeter, the most popular genres estimate, “because so many of them Shows like these, he noted, “have been are, “the classic high-end documentary are contractually bound to take a large produced in local versions in South with history, culture or science as a percentage of their schedule from Africa and Nigeria, and with the number central topic.” Underlining this, she their U.S. parents, and also because of channels increasing, content from cited “successful sales to the C.I.S. some, such as HBO, Turner, Discovery, other genres, such as lifestyle and crime, and Baltic territories,” of such Cineflix Zodiak Rights’ Andreas Boenisch MTV and A&E are quite active in is becoming more important.”

24 VIDEO • AGE A PRIL 2 0 1 1 Digital Pennies From Heaven

Micro-Payments Are Adding Up To Make Macro Revenues

Lionsgate’s Peter Iacono he industry is increasingly iPhone game for Cash Cab and charging to watch on TV,” to ensure that the cost sounding like an economics for services that use your program brand of the transaction is practical, and that textbook. If “macro” to create a range of services that people companies are not giving away valuable indicates a large license fee will pay for.” Thus, some companies are content for next to nothing. What’s more, from broadcasters and cable generating micro-payments by charging both Taylor and Iacono emphasized that network operators, “micro” customers both to watch content online, for people to actually make purchases, must mean a myriad of little as well as to play games associated with the payment process for the consumer paymentsT that producers and distributors popular programs. must be a “frictionless payment system.” can extract from the online universe. Therefore, it seems that micro- Iacono supported the idea of a “One Purchasing content such as episodes payments are about finding content click, frictionless” process for purchasing of TV shows, movies and music (or that people will pay to watch or use. content online. Since a means of payment “atoms,” meaning program segments) Taylor noted that many people are is on file, micro-payments can be ideal from iTunes, Amazon.com and On paying very small amounts of money, for the consumer, according to Iacono. Demand services on television sets pennies, to play social media games represent examples of micro-payments. Taylor pointed out that over time, such as Farmville, and even gambling “there could be a move away from Now the question is: Going the way and gaming sites in the U.K. However, of micro-payments, is it still a case of physical product toward people viewing All3Media’s Andy Taylor he cautioned that “if it’s a subscription online through iTunes or their TV, the much derided, neglected “analog service, (i.e. people watching TV), [the reserved assessment. He stated that, once they become connected to the dollars for digital pennies”? amount people will pay for media] needs “Micro-payments constitute a small but Internet. One would imagine that over to be substantial.” Since companies have Undoubtedly, these little payments growing market,” as The Fremantle time physical product will decline and other revenues to measure, revenues made online are currently attracting a great Corp. is “increasing [its] broader parts of online viewing will grow. So, in the deal of industry attention, and a major generated by micro-payments must be the catalogue into digital delivery.” These industry, we need to make sure we keep question surrounding micro-payments is substantial in order to be worthwhile. comments indicate that digital revenues the value we would make from selling whether there is any “real” money to be from micro-payments are gaining ground For Taylor, “each [digital] penny has made in these tiny monetary revenues. to turn into dollars for us to keep the a DVD” as the populace moves toward and could become a significant part of watching content online for a fee. This Among the international executives business, even if not the main part. system, and as the audience moves we VideoAge surveyed, there was a consensus have to make sure we capture as much is important because, Taylor cautioned, that the issue of micro-payments is not And it is definitely the best way value for each [user] as we can.” “you don’t want to give anything away to monetize content that is difficult for free.” Therefore, “the value you a case of analog dollars versus digital According to Iacono, the cost of to sell to international TV outlets make online has to be at least the pennies, and there is, indeed, money to transaction differs depending on the (e.g., comedies) or that is outside of same as it is with the physical product.” be found in micro-payments. country, but the lowest price they charge the popular cycle (e.g., prime-time Taylor emphasized that, “things will One of the larger content companies in major territories is equivalent to soaps). Older archives are also perfect change, and that’s not a bad thing as that pioneered micro-payments is U.S.$1.99. “As the content creator, we candidates for micro-payments: Content long as you’re creating a value when FremantleMedia, which, in 2009 premiered that otherwise would still be collecting keep the lion’s share of that transaction. Sun Quiz Live, a show designed for micro- It’s not so much the transaction, it’s our people view content online.” Holender dust instead of pennies. Trillions of agreed that micro-payments are “already payments that cost the equivalent of pennies. In that regard, researchers in share in the transaction,” Iacono said. U.S.$490 an hour to produce. changing the distribution game. Since England have established that, for such Holender noted that micro-payments the downfall of DVDs, the DVD people Micro-payments are not something content services, consumers are willing are a “business model that’s going are now asking for those rights, and it’s new in the online business. It is a concept to shell-out anything from 10 cents to work, because there’s a collector a very thin line as to whose rights those established by the music industry and to $3.25. Micro-payments for digital out there who wants to own all of are. So you have to be very careful how ringtones that content companies are content is estimated to have reached the episodes of a program.” Likewise, you manage the specific rights.” now trying to fine-tune by basically worldwide $11.5 billion in 2009. Taylor found that there is “evidence applying the “long tail” business model No one was quite sure where micro- that people will pay to watch a premiere Iacono also noted that the traditional to a highly-efficient (consumer-friendly) payments originated, but both Taylor and episode” of a program. He elaborated: distribution system is already being “click service” for users. Iacono pointed to iTunes as an obvious “People will pay to see things that “affected [by micro-payments] When asked whether it is worthwhile example of their successful use. In fact, are incredibly exclusive.” Holender because the pennies are dollars; to sell content at such a small price, as Iacono remarked, “Micro-payments underscored the fact that there must they’re meaningful dollars. It’s not our U.K.-based Andy Taylor, Digital Media have been in use for quite some time, but be “a lot of content to make it work… core business, but it is meaningful.” director at All3Media was blunt: “It the genesis of iTunes has transformed” Unless you have a lot of titles, you However, he maintained that Lionsgate has to be, otherwise [we] wouldn’t the industry and the concept of using can’t compete.” Iacono agreed and was is finding ways to make business work do it.” As Lionsgate’s Los Angeles- micro-payments. enthusiastic that there is a wide variety for traditional broadcast clients, as well based managing director, International Although there was uncertainty as to of content that can be purchased using as new media clients, and the key Television Peter Iacono put it, digital the origins, all agreed that there are, as micro-payments: “The great thing to those efforts are windowing rules pennies “have added up to become Iacono put it, “many ways to generate about micro-payments is that so many and holdbacks. Before content is made dollars” already. According to Iacono, micro-payments.” Taylor was more types of content work.” available on a service such as iTunes, it “digital revenues are quite substantial” specific, citing two ways in particular. However, if people are willing is available for a short window of time and seem to make for a nice business. One is “charging for a TV program to to purchase all types of content, it is exclusively on the broadcaster’s website, However, Los Angeles-based principal watch it on demand” and the other is important, as Taylor stressed, that a thereby protecting the broadcaster director of Toronto-based The Fremantle “using your program brand to launch a company “create the same value when while simultaneously satisfying new Corp. Irv Holender offered a bit more game to play. For example, launching an people watch online as it does for people media clients.

26 VIDEO • AGE A PRIL 2 0 1 1 Digital Pennies From Heaven

Micro-Payments Are Adding Up To Make Macro Revenues

26 VIDEO • AGE A PRIL 2 0 1 1 coast, from the Arabian Gulf to South Africa, carrying voice, data and video. But this is by no means the only significant investment in infrastructure in sub- Discop Africa Sahara’s audiovisual content business. SES, the Luxembourg-based satellite behemoth, is in the process of making a substantial investment in satellite capacity for the sub-Saharan region. An investment estimated by Theo Asampong, Africa’s Continued regional director, North, Central and West Africa, “to be in excess of U.S.$1 billion, expanding or replacing, our existing fleet of seven satellites dedicated Television Growth to sub-Saharan Africa.” Asampong underlined the reason SES is making such a commitment by illustrating sub- ddressing the South African of feature film production and one have much more time to network with Saharan Africa’s potential for expansion Parliament in February of the largest in the world) as well my peers from other broadcasters.” in terms of television homes. The region 1960, the then British Prime as Indian drama series and movies VideoAge caught up with Beker on has around 220 million homes of which Minister Harold Macmillan and Shades of Sin, a telenovela from day one of DISCOP Africa, and so, only about 80 million currently have a told his audience that, “a Ivory Coast-based Côte Ouest, Africa’s unsurprisingly, she had not yet closed television, as opposed to 240 million wind of change is sweeping largest independent distributor. any deals, although she did report having homes in Western Europe, of which through Africa.” Exactly Also in Accra seeking programming had, “a number of very promising around 230 million have television, A51 years later, a wind of opportunity for a start up was Adedayo Ouholowu of conversations.” Nonetheless, Beker although television is not the only now sweeps through the continent’s Nigeria’s Ajala TV. Ajala TV is a wholly estimates that around 25 percent of her potential for expansion identified by audiovisual content industry. the company; it also sees great potential owned subsidiary of Ajala Travel, of total annual purchases are made at, or for the V-Sat market, which is used With an all time record attendance which Ouholowu is co-founder and as a direct result of, the DISCOP Africa to service point to point transmission, of 439 participants, including CEO, and so it is not surprising that markets. Wananchi is looking to plug typically mobile telephony. However, representatives from every U.S. major, Ajala TV is set to launch a niche travel a yawning demand for content in East TV is the immediate priority. and all of Latin America’s top telenovela channel. In fact the company is already Africa. At the moment the area is rife suppliers, the fifth DISCOP Africa, up and running, having launched a with content piracy, but, Beker believes, As Christoph Limmer, senior director, held in Ghanaian capital Accra early last branded block on leading Nigerian Pay “this is because there is a huge demand Marketing and Market Development, February, reflected such opportunities operator HiTv last month, with the full for content that is currently not being Africa pointed out when VideoAge spoke in the sub-Saharan region. launch of the channel slated for June. met by adequate distribution channels with the SES team at Accra, “Most of But the headline numbers are not the Although the parent company is and outlets. There are,” she explained, the existing channels have realized they whole story, since DISCOP generated focused on travel in Nigeria, Ouholowu “currently no cinemas and no retail want to go digital and reach the whole major deals such as that signed between told VideoAge in Accra that, “Ajala TV outlets for DVD. But,” she continued, population and that satellite is by far John De Mol’s Talpa Media and Modern will cover worldwide tourism,” adding, “as the cost of both broadband and the most cost effective means of doing Africa Productions under which the “the Nigerian tourist is sophisticated access to Pay packages fall, and we this, and it is also the means offering latter will co-produce all of Talpa’s and a diet of Kenyan safaris and Lagos continue to offer a range, quality and the best spread. Additionally, there are a lot of new players entering the formats in several African countries. beaches simply won’t work, so we choice that is simply not available on market. Whereas two years or so ago, it But the really hard evidence of the will present a range of destinations FTA, the emerging Kenyan middle class was mostly talk, now there are concrete opportunity that is mushrooming in and travel options, but targeted at an will readily pay for legitimate access. plans. I am confident that there will be sub-Saharan Africa was to be found on African viewer.” Like MC-TV’s Conteh, This is the market we are aiming for.” a boom in demand over the next three the market floor, with the demand for Ouholowu found DISCOP Accra useful, One of the key factors in the Kenyan content from an ever-growing array of signing up 30 hours of programming and years or so from many new players content market was the completion a year and that we have the expertise, the new outlets. telling VideoAge that, “we are also close or so ago of an undersea fiber running infrastructure and the investment to to signing deals with Off The Fence and One such outlet searching DISCOP the entire length of the African East meet that demand.” BJ Accra for new product was MC-TV Deutsche Welle totaling about 40 hours in the form of managing director of programming between them.” So far, Jamal Conteh. Conteh has six years DISCOP Africa is the only market the experience in broadcasting in Sierra fledgling Ajala TV has attended, but THE PRICE IS RIGHT, Leone, the last four of which saw him with the branded block up and running BUT BOUND TO INCREASE serve as executive director of ABC-TV on HiTv and the date of the full launch in that country. Now he has established quickly approaching, the plan is, per Across a continent with 52 countries of vastly different sizes MC-TV to act, in his words, “as a Ouholowu, to, “attend both MIP and and wealth, and each with an increasing range of broadcasters broker between content suppliers and MIPCOM this year.” of differing scope and ambition, prices are bound to vary advertisers and sponsors.” MC-TV is A regular visitor to all three markets considerably. due to go to air in May, and, says is Hannelie Beker, the buyer for Kenya’s There is also a great difference among prices paid for differing Conteh, he already has demand from Wananchi. Wananchi is a triple play genres. Sport is easily the most popular, and with few exceptions advertisers and sponsors for, “good provider in the East Africa country, — rugby and cricket in South Africa, cricket and track in Kenya quality kids, educational programming, and Beker, who regularly visits all three and wrestling in Senegal — sport really means soccer. fashion, news and current events and markets, professes a preference for By far the two wealthiest broadcast markets are South Africa sport.” Traditionally, Sierra Leone DISCOP Africa. She told VideoAge why: and Nigeria, and for most genres these markets would equate mostly acquires programming from “The key thing about DISCOP Africa to one of the smaller European markets. However, the last English the major English-language markets for me,” she explained, “is that Africa is Premier League deal in Nigeria went for a reported U.S.$100 and from neighboring West African not marginal, and this is good for both million for all matches over three years. countries, and illustrating this, MC-TV buyers and sellers. Also,” she continued, Other than this, a general rule of thumb for most other sub- has already acquired educational “it is a much better venue for me for Saharan markets would be in the range $250-$350 per hour with programming on avoiding HIV from networking. When I am in Cannes all I some very good drama or high-end documentary occasionally MTV, a raft of Nigerian movies ever see are sellers as it is such a frenetic going as high as $500 per hour. (Nollywood is Africa’s largest center market. However, at DISCOP Africa, I

28 VIDEO • AGE A PRIL 2 0 1 1 coast, from the Arabian Gulf to South Africa, carrying voice, data and video. But this is by no means the only significant investment in infrastructure in sub- Discop Africa Sahara’s audiovisual content business. SES, the Luxembourg-based satellite behemoth, is in the process of making a substantial investment in satellite capacity for the sub-Saharan region. An investment estimated by Theo Asampong, Africa’s Continued regional director, North, Central and West Africa, “to be in excess of U.S.$1 billion, expanding or replacing, our existing fleet of seven satellites dedicated Television Growth to sub-Saharan Africa.” Asampong underlined the reason SES is making such a commitment by illustrating sub- ddressing the South African of feature film production and one have much more time to network with Saharan Africa’s potential for expansion Parliament in February of the largest in the world) as well my peers from other broadcasters.” in terms of television homes. The region 1960, the then British Prime as Indian drama series and movies VideoAge caught up with Beker on has around 220 million homes of which Minister Harold Macmillan and Shades of Sin, a telenovela from day one of DISCOP Africa, and so, only about 80 million currently have a told his audience that, “a Ivory Coast-based Côte Ouest, Africa’s unsurprisingly, she had not yet closed television, as opposed to 240 million wind of change is sweeping largest independent distributor. any deals, although she did report having homes in Western Europe, of which through Africa.” Exactly Also in Accra seeking programming had, “a number of very promising around 230 million have television, A51 years later, a wind of opportunity for a start up was Adedayo Ouholowu of conversations.” Nonetheless, Beker although television is not the only now sweeps through the continent’s Nigeria’s Ajala TV. Ajala TV is a wholly estimates that around 25 percent of her potential for expansion identified by audiovisual content industry. the company; it also sees great potential owned subsidiary of Ajala Travel, of total annual purchases are made at, or for the V-Sat market, which is used With an all time record attendance which Ouholowu is co-founder and as a direct result of, the DISCOP Africa to service point to point transmission, of 439 participants, including CEO, and so it is not surprising that markets. Wananchi is looking to plug typically mobile telephony. However, representatives from every U.S. major, Ajala TV is set to launch a niche travel a yawning demand for content in East TV is the immediate priority. and all of Latin America’s top telenovela channel. In fact the company is already Africa. At the moment the area is rife suppliers, the fifth DISCOP Africa, up and running, having launched a with content piracy, but, Beker believes, As Christoph Limmer, senior director, held in Ghanaian capital Accra early last branded block on leading Nigerian Pay “this is because there is a huge demand Marketing and Market Development, February, reflected such opportunities operator HiTv last month, with the full for content that is currently not being Africa pointed out when VideoAge spoke in the sub-Saharan region. launch of the channel slated for June. met by adequate distribution channels with the SES team at Accra, “Most of But the headline numbers are not the Although the parent company is and outlets. There are,” she explained, the existing channels have realized they whole story, since DISCOP generated focused on travel in Nigeria, Ouholowu “currently no cinemas and no retail want to go digital and reach the whole major deals such as that signed between told VideoAge in Accra that, “Ajala TV outlets for DVD. But,” she continued, population and that satellite is by far John De Mol’s Talpa Media and Modern will cover worldwide tourism,” adding, “as the cost of both broadband and the most cost effective means of doing Africa Productions under which the “the Nigerian tourist is sophisticated access to Pay packages fall, and we this, and it is also the means offering latter will co-produce all of Talpa’s and a diet of Kenyan safaris and Lagos continue to offer a range, quality and the best spread. Additionally, there are a lot of new players entering the formats in several African countries. beaches simply won’t work, so we choice that is simply not available on market. Whereas two years or so ago, it But the really hard evidence of the will present a range of destinations FTA, the emerging Kenyan middle class was mostly talk, now there are concrete opportunity that is mushrooming in and travel options, but targeted at an will readily pay for legitimate access. plans. I am confident that there will be sub-Saharan Africa was to be found on African viewer.” Like MC-TV’s Conteh, This is the market we are aiming for.” a boom in demand over the next three the market floor, with the demand for Ouholowu found DISCOP Accra useful, One of the key factors in the Kenyan content from an ever-growing array of signing up 30 hours of programming and years or so from many new players content market was the completion a year and that we have the expertise, the new outlets. telling VideoAge that, “we are also close or so ago of an undersea fiber running infrastructure and the investment to to signing deals with Off The Fence and One such outlet searching DISCOP the entire length of the African East meet that demand.” BJ Accra for new product was MC-TV Deutsche Welle totaling about 40 hours in the form of managing director of programming between them.” So far, Jamal Conteh. Conteh has six years DISCOP Africa is the only market the experience in broadcasting in Sierra fledgling Ajala TV has attended, but THE PRICE IS RIGHT, Leone, the last four of which saw him with the branded block up and running BUT BOUND TO INCREASE serve as executive director of ABC-TV on HiTv and the date of the full launch in that country. Now he has established quickly approaching, the plan is, per Across a continent with 52 countries of vastly different sizes MC-TV to act, in his words, “as a Ouholowu, to, “attend both MIP and and wealth, and each with an increasing range of broadcasters broker between content suppliers and MIPCOM this year.” of differing scope and ambition, prices are bound to vary advertisers and sponsors.” MC-TV is A regular visitor to all three markets considerably. due to go to air in May, and, says is Hannelie Beker, the buyer for Kenya’s There is also a great difference among prices paid for differing Conteh, he already has demand from Wananchi. Wananchi is a triple play genres. Sport is easily the most popular, and with few exceptions advertisers and sponsors for, “good provider in the East Africa country, — rugby and cricket in South Africa, cricket and track in Kenya quality kids, educational programming, and Beker, who regularly visits all three and wrestling in Senegal — sport really means soccer. fashion, news and current events and markets, professes a preference for By far the two wealthiest broadcast markets are South Africa sport.” Traditionally, Sierra Leone DISCOP Africa. She told VideoAge why: and Nigeria, and for most genres these markets would equate mostly acquires programming from “The key thing about DISCOP Africa to one of the smaller European markets. However, the last English the major English-language markets for me,” she explained, “is that Africa is Premier League deal in Nigeria went for a reported U.S.$100 and from neighboring West African not marginal, and this is good for both million for all matches over three years. countries, and illustrating this, MC-TV buyers and sellers. Also,” she continued, Other than this, a general rule of thumb for most other sub- has already acquired educational “it is a much better venue for me for Saharan markets would be in the range $250-$350 per hour with programming on avoiding HIV from networking. When I am in Cannes all I some very good drama or high-end documentary occasionally MTV, a raft of Nigerian movies ever see are sellers as it is such a frenetic going as high as $500 per hour. (Nollywood is Africa’s largest center market. However, at DISCOP Africa, I

28 VIDEO • AGE A PRIL 2 0 1 1 cuts. It is time intensive. What does “After all these years, people seem to change is the economic climate, and the know about us. What they are sometimes emergence of different ‘hot’ areas, as surprised to learn is that although we Execs Call On Top media technologies and models evolve.” are based in Los Angeles, we have Job Finders But, have the requirements changed? It an extensive worldwide network and is assumed that nowadays recruiters deal have done many international searches. with MBAs, while yesteryear they dealt Attending MIP since 1988, going to the with SWAs (street-wise administrators). international Licensing Show, speaking French, all that has helped.” (Continued from Cover) “By the time retained recruiters get involved,” Lipson explained, “it is usually “How do we find candidates?” can google potential candidates. “I am at a level where specific experience and a he mused. “We begin with a precise sure many companies do exactly that. If compelling track record are much more description of the open position, and we money is an object, you can always fill a important. And so, properly assessing then have questions that help our clients job through the Internet,” he said, then the diversity, breadth and depth of add other criteria they might not have continued: “But, I also know that some experience becomes much more relevant. thought of. Then, we become detectives. do it with much less success than others. Based on the feedback we receive, as well ‘Where is this executive?’ Yes, a database And one of the most significant and least as the candidates sometimes referred to can sometimes help as a jumping off documented costs of every business is the us, hiring authorities can often ‘miss’ point, but rarely is that where we find unsuccessful hire.” key indicators in an executive’s CV. the final candidate. The joy of my job Howard Lipson “[Another] of the biggest misconceptions Stated differently, they may be great is hearing about people we have not previously known about, and networking is that higher unemployment levels executives, but they are not always great client, by honestly discussing the pros mean less need for recruiters. In fact, recruiters. our way to them. But, ultimately, it is determining if they do indeed fit along and cons of a favorite candidate, then the opposite can be true, with so many As far as change in ‘executive search’ all the criteria, how it works for our they have short changed their clients. marginal candidates seeking positions goes, another difference is that in the candidate and their family, and to then Our job is not to ‘nod in agreement,’ with inappropriate credentials. But, past companies might have questioned bring about the marriage so that all even when it means not closing a deal. certainly, companies have been hiring using a ‘boutique recruiting firm.’ After parties are excited to move forward That is our value, serving as the fewer executives in the recent past.” all, went the thinking, how could we go together. And to monitor the results. sounding board, as the devil’s advocate. In Lipson’s view, he provides his clients wrong if we hire the biggest? Now, most We all have flaws. Beyond finding, hiring authorities realize that it is the In approaching executives, we are “with a great deal more than simply evaluating, negotiating, and hiring, we individual doing the search who really always very respectful: people are presenting a list of candidates whose prior always offer to follow up with our clients, makes the difference, but they must still busy; listening to or helping us is jobs and experience will fit our client’s staying in touch with the executives who stated needs. We provide details that may make sure that it is that individual who not their main job; they have to like you and respond positively to your we place with them. Too many clients not otherwise be forthcoming. We bring actually conducts their search, and I mean professionalism. If they do, they may fail to take advantage of that. out the ‘religion’ in candidates, and their involvement at every stage of the search.” opt in, or refer us to others. Above And, we want that to be a bigger references. And, along the way, we help VideoAge wondered if companies all, you have to listen to their needs part of our services. Regular executive educate our clients about the range of have changed. and goals. These are major career and evaluation and, hopefully, executive possible choices, and the full picture of the “That can be answered in so many family altering decisions. And they retention, should be a major goal of executives they are planning to hire. The ways,” Lipson said. “Companies have have to work for everyone involved.” every company. Too many senior more information to evaluate, the more tried new business areas, often with Are candidates afraid to talk to you? leaders are left alone too long. Problems likely the hire will be successful.” mixed results. Others have wanted to (This could be for several reasons: a) can fester. But, being able to voice an So, when does a company call you? expand internationally, usually with if they’re not selected, it could become opinion will often go a long way to greater success. We have often helped “We are retained by our client embarrassing for them, and b) they relieving tension. And so, we would companies to find executives (from our clients do so, whether in Europe, like to add variations of that service to Latin America, and Asia, and from those might not want to be seen as looking VPs to CEOs, creative executives to around). How do you reassure them? our business model in the future.” hands-on operators) for several of the areas adding executives in the U.S.” “We have experienced the opposite. You have to describe other executives’ following reasons: Another question is: In today’s From the very beginning, we have had job functions; can you describe yours? (1) Clients want to look beyond the entertainment business, can one exec fit- all? Meaning, can an executive easily move candidates say to us, ‘I can’t believe I told “We expand upon our clients’ existing ‘usual suspects’ whom they have you that.’ They trust us. We have always job descriptions. In virtually every case, already heard about. In other from film production to TV production to broadcasting, without problems? felt that if we betray a single confidence, their criteria will change either before words, they are not satisfied with we will lose our credibility forever. As or certainly during the course of a their own list of candidates. “The last time I saw fairly consistent for their embarrassment or discomfort search. We must be ready to adapt to, success was not in transferring from TV (2) Our client wants to make a at not landing a job, candidates know encourage or facilitate such changes in to film, but when domestic television ‘confidential’ management change. that it is not merely about their skills set, criteria by relaying candidates’ reactions executives moved into international In this and other cases, we will not but, the overall personality and cultural and adding our own feedback. territories,” said Lipson. “Not all identify the client until absolutely fit as well. We try very hard to manage succeeded, and companies became We regard this as an ongoing aspect necessary, which also allows us to their expectations; but clearly, people less enamored paying expat packages, of every search, and, I believe, we are approach those competitors that can be disappointed. but the transnational experience has better than our clients at incorporating most of our clients seldom want to proved valuable to many of them as the However, we pride ourselves on such changes, even with their internal contact directly. international market has exploded. As being honest. I was told years ago that resources. Call it our ability to be objective. in the entertainment industry, ‘you can (3) Clients do not have sufficient time a Canadian who has lived and worked Our other key role is to understand die of encouragement.’ Nobody wins to actually search for candidates, in Europe and Asia, I know something our clients’ corporate culture and assess in that scenario, so we tell it like it is, or to properly evaluate those who about what is required to adapt to other the hiring executive’s specific issues for without being unnecessarily blunt. reply to online postings, or are cultures.” the successful candidate’s personality. suggested by colleagues. Now the million-dollar question: The toughest part is often providing This is usually a subtle process, and [my] (4) Clients may be starting a new Adjusted for inflation, have salaries candidates with timely feedback, especially background in psychology seems to help. when we have none because our clients business area and are not really changed over the years? “No,” Most everyone agrees that a don’t yet have it. Candidates may feel adequately familiar with executive was his quick answer. “And, I believe candidate’s ultimate success is not neglected; but to call them week after leaders in that field.” compensation changes are more simply his or her ‘skills set;’ it is also week and say ‘we have not heard anything’ When asked how his job has changed often due to the prevailing economic how he or she fits into the organization, situation. Today, you can get a lot is a waste of everyone’s time. We do our since he started over 20 years ago, Lipson best to keep things moving forward.” how they manage up, manage down. answered, “Things have not changed more ‘executive’ for a certain level of These behaviors are usually difficult that much in the selection process. And compensation than you could several What is your business model? to precisely measure in advance; but, in some ways, they haven’t changed much years ago.” “Obviously, we are retained and charge after many years observing who has in finding and evaluating entertainment How do clients find you and how do for our services. I have often said that if succeeded, and why, we have a broader executives either. There are no short you find the candidates? a recruiter cannot disagree with his evaluative context, and we use it.”

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U.K. for example,” he continued, The X Factor has just enjoyed its best ever ITH AVID LLENDER LOBAL ratings in what was its seventh season. Q&A W D E , G A Journalist With In the U.S. too, American Idol is still REMANTLE EDIA NTERPRISES the number one show even in its tenth CEO, F M E (Tele) Vision season. In fact, in most of the major VideoAge International: Could you explain the difference between markets, viewing figures for all the big FremantleMedia and FremantleMedia Enterprises? brands are still rising,” an observation which leads Cohen to what he considers David Ellender: FremantleMedia Enterprises [FME] is the commercial another important current trend. and brand extension arm of FremantleMedia. FremantleMedia is one of the (Continued from Cover) leading creators and producers of entertainment brands in the world. The “It is worth noting,” he suggested, “that company creates and produces many of the world’s highest-rated prime local newspaper that ceased publication there are fewer and fewer really big shows, time entertainment, drama and factual entertainment programs and formats, in the ’80s] and only turned to being and that those that make it as such are including Idols (co-produced with 19 Productions in the U.S.), Got Talent a television producer when that title getting bigger and bigger. At the same time (co-produced with Syco in the U.K. and the U.S.), The X Factor (co-produced folded. Initially I thought television there are more and more smaller shows with Syco in the U.K. and the U.S.), Take Me Out, The Price is Right, and Gute would be an interim measure, for that can work really well for smaller, niche Zeiten Schlechte Zeiten (Good Times, Bad Times), which is Germany’s number maybe six months or so — but that audiences, but,” he cautioned, “the middle one serial drama and one of 12 daily dramas made by FremantleMedia around was 32 years ago!” The influence of his ground is fast disappearing.” the world. FremantleMedia has production operations in over 22 countries early years in journalism is still with Returning to his earlier reference to and creates nearly 10,000 hours of programming a year. FremantleMedia also him. When asked to name the three the enormous impact he believes the recently acquired the global transmedia company @radical.media, and Ludia, individuals who have had the greatest Internet has had, especially with the creator and distributor of cross-platform interactive entertainment. influence on his career, first up was his advent of social networking and gaming, FME, the company’s commercial and brand extension arm, operates globally old editor at The Evening News, who, said it is typical of Cohen to focus on the and is comprised of three core businesses — international distribution, brand Cohen, “taught me how to write.” The opportunities these changes bring with licensing, and home entertainment. Our distribution catalogue represents producer David Cox got a vote of thanks them, citing as an example, “our use more than 20,000 hours of finished programming that is sold to more than for “teaching me how to analyze,” and last season of YouTube to hold auditions 150 countries. Our brand licensing division is responsible for building brands Cohen also credited former Pearson for America’s Got Talent; not only was on and off screen through sponsorship and promotions, consumer products CEO and former BBC director general this hugely popular, but one of the acts and interactive, mobile and gaming, and live events. In home entertainment Greg Dyke for, “teaching me that in that entered the show this way actually we operate DVD retail labels in both the U.K. and Australia; and in the U.S. business, imagination is as important made it to the final.” Nor is this the only and EMEA we have a successful licensing program to third party distributors. as discipline.” opportunity Cohen is eager to harvest FME has operations in 11 locations around the world. In this respect there is a telling quote in the still relatively new world of social VAI: What does MIP represent for FME? about Cohen that Greg Dyke gave to networking. “Social networking sites Royal Television Society’s house organ, can,” he insisted, “have a vital role to DE: MIP-TV is a very important event for us. Every year, we launch an Television a few years ago: “I had to have play in generating buzz and excitement exciting new slate of finished programming and our sales force gets the Tony [Cohen]. He does the thinking around a show while also providing a opportunity to present these to a huge range of broadcasters. It’s a fantastic and I do the PR. Why don’t we just hire means for audience reaction to reach forum for us to meet up with long-standing clients, meet new partners and him? ‘You don’t understand, it doesn’t millions of others.” catch up with colleagues from around the globe. Not only do we close a work without the PR.” But, significant though the Net lot of deals at the market, but we start a lot of conversations that lead to Clearly, from the very start of his is, new opportunities also exist in deals, so it’s a very busy and exciting time. career, the business side of the industry other areas and Cohen is adamant VAI: FME is preparing for an important L.A. Screenings. Why is this market held a fascination for him. In the ’80s, that the proper exploitation of these of particular importance? opportunities is vital to the future Cohen took a one-year course at the DE: FME has been going to L.A. Screenings for a number of years and London Business School, becoming, prosperity of any company involved in the content business. Few would it continues to be of importance to us, especially in regards to our LatAm as far as he is aware, the first British activity, which is a significant part of our business. We’ve also been particularly producer to do this. argue with his assertion that, “there is now less and less money available from busy in the U.S. cable drama space recently and have developed a number Over a career stretching back three broadcasters, but,” he continued, “it is of relationships with U.S.-based drama producers and creators, so L.A. decades Cohen has seen many changes. also true that there are more and more Screenings is not only a good place to talk to broadcasters about what we’re “In technology,” he pointed out, “we opportunities opening up elsewhere.” doing, but it also gives us a platform to develop even more relationships. have moved from 16 mm reversal, through tape to digital, and the move to As examples of such opportunities, tapeless production has had a significant Cohen highlighted, “new opportunities impact, as has the introduction of new in the area of branded programming as low energy lighting and cameras — well as in gaming.” He also pointed to, especially on drama.” “our acquisition of @radical.media in the branded programming arena, and also of The relentless march of technology Canadian gaming specialist, Ludia, both has also had a profound impact on of which we announced last October,” business models, with the arrival of as positioning FremantleMedia to move the multi-channel environment and into this new area, and he was clear as of a vibrant independent production to the importance he attaches to these sector, as well as the significant effects acquisitions. “They are,” he asserted, of so many new platforms, especially, in “central to our strategy of adapting to Cohen’s view, “mobile and the Internet rapidly changing entertainment business with the enormous impact of social models, and the very different way in networking and gaming in particular.” which companies will do entertainment In content, Cohen pointed to, “the in the future.” emergence of the super format and the Indeed Cohen believed that, “the birth, and long life of reality,” as key content business is changing very quickly developments, and he is adamant that, and will, I suspect, look very different, “analyzing these changes and adapting and very much more complicated in the interview, this has been the focus of constant. It has always believed in the FremantleMedia’s business to take future.” Which, presumably, is why he activity at FremantleMedia for some time maxim “think global, act local,” and has advantage of the opportunities they also noted that, “the role of any company now, and with the company’s recent move recently added to its 22 production offices offer has been our core activity for the in the content business has to be to into the area of kids’ programming he was and 11 representation offices around the past few years.” anticipate what the impact of the changes satisfied that, “FremantleMedia is now in world, with the acquisition of production But, for all of the undoubted we see all around us will be, and to adapt companies in Italy and The Netherlands to these changes. And,” he stressed, “the most of the areas of business we want to importance of the changes that have be in,” adding, “I have already mentioned and the opening of an office in India. taken place in the past few years, for main thing to understand is you can’t And, said Cohen, “the future growth hang around, you have to spot trends, the acquisition of @radical.media and Cohen, it has been the current trends that Ludia, and we have recently announced of Fremantle will be both organic and carry the greatest significance. “The most and, when you have identified one, you through acquisition. What is important is our first kids’ series, My Babysitter Is A important current trend,” he insisted, “is must move quickly with it and reorganize building partnerships and sometimes this that television audiences are still rising, your business to take account of the Vampire, and more will follow.” is better done through acquisitions, and and this is something we see in all the changes you have made.” In the midst of all this change, some sometimes organically, it just depends on world’s major television markets. In the As Cohen suggested earlier in this aspects of Fremantle’s business remain what the situation calls for.”

32 VIDEO • AGE A PRIL 2 0 1 1 U.K. for example,” he continued, The presents our mip line-up of new ﬁ lms X Factor has just enjoyed its best ever ITH AVID LLENDER LOBAL ratings in what was its seventh season. Q&A W D E , G A Journalist With In the U.S. too, American Idol is still REMANTLE EDIA NTERPRISES the number one show even in its tenth CEO, F M E season. In fact, in most of the major (Tele) Vision VideoAge International: Could you explain the difference between IN markets, viewing figures for all the big FremantleMedia and FremantleMedia Enterprises? brands are still rising,” an observation PRODUCTION which leads Cohen to what he considers David Ellender: FremantleMedia Enterprises [FME] is the commercial another important current trend. and brand extension arm of FremantleMedia. FremantleMedia is one of the (Continued from Cover) leading creators and producers of entertainment brands in the world. The “It is worth noting,” he suggested, “that company creates and produces many of the world’s highest-rated prime local newspaper that ceased publication there are fewer and fewer really big shows, time entertainment, drama and factual entertainment programs and formats, in the ’80s] and only turned to being and that those that make it as such are including Idols (co-produced with 19 Productions in the U.S.), Got Talent a television producer when that title getting bigger and bigger. At the same time (co-produced with Syco in the U.K. and the U.S.), The X Factor (co-produced folded. Initially I thought television there are more and more smaller shows with Syco in the U.K. and the U.S.), Take Me Out, The Price is Right, and Gute would be an interim measure, for that can work really well for smaller, niche Zeiten Schlechte Zeiten (Good Times, Bad Times), which is Germany’s number maybe six months or so — but that audiences, but,” he cautioned, “the middle one serial drama and one of 12 daily dramas made by FremantleMedia around was 32 years ago!” The influence of his ground is fast disappearing.” the world. FremantleMedia has production operations in over 22 countries early years in journalism is still with Returning to his earlier reference to and creates nearly 10,000 hours of programming a year. FremantleMedia also him. When asked to name the three the enormous impact he believes the recently acquired the global transmedia company @radical.media, and Ludia, individuals who have had the greatest Internet has had, especially with the creator and distributor of cross-platform interactive entertainment. influence on his career, first up was his advent of social networking and gaming, FME, the company’s commercial and brand extension arm, operates globally old editor at The Evening News, who, said it is typical of Cohen to focus on the and is comprised of three core businesses — international distribution, brand Cohen, “taught me how to write.” The opportunities these changes bring with licensing, and home entertainment. Our distribution catalogue represents producer David Cox got a vote of thanks them, citing as an example, “our use more than 20,000 hours of finished programming that is sold to more than for “teaching me how to analyze,” and last season of YouTube to hold auditions 150 countries. Our brand licensing division is responsible for building brands Cohen also credited former Pearson for America’s Got Talent; not only was on and off screen through sponsorship and promotions, consumer products CEO and former BBC director general this hugely popular, but one of the acts and interactive, mobile and gaming, and live events. In home entertainment Greg Dyke for, “teaching me that in that entered the show this way actually we operate DVD retail labels in both the U.K. and Australia; and in the U.S. business, imagination is as important made it to the final.” Nor is this the only and EMEA we have a successful licensing program to third party distributors. as discipline.” opportunity Cohen is eager to harvest FME has operations in 11 locations around the world. In this respect there is a telling quote in the still relatively new world of social VAI: What does MIP represent for FME? about Cohen that Greg Dyke gave to networking. “Social networking sites Royal Television Society’s house organ, can,” he insisted, “have a vital role to DE: MIP-TV is a very important event for us. Every year, we launch an Television a few years ago: “I had to have play in generating buzz and excitement exciting new slate of finished programming and our sales force gets the Tony [Cohen]. He does the thinking around a show while also providing a opportunity to present these to a huge range of broadcasters. It’s a fantastic and I do the PR. Why don’t we just hire means for audience reaction to reach forum for us to meet up with long-standing clients, meet new partners and him? ‘You don’t understand, it doesn’t millions of others.” catch up with colleagues from around the globe. Not only do we close a Charisma Carpenter Christa B Allen Ben Milleken work without the PR.” But, significant though the Net lot of deals at the market, but we start a lot of conversations that lead to Clearly, from the very start of his is, new opportunities also exist in deals, so it’s a very busy and exciting time. career, the business side of the industry other areas and Cohen is adamant VAI: FME is preparing for an important L.A. Screenings. Why is this market held a fascination for him. In the ’80s, that the proper exploitation of these of particular importance? opportunities is vital to the future Cohen took a one-year course at the DE: FME has been going to L.A. Screenings for a number of years and London Business School, becoming, prosperity of any company involved in the content business. Few would it continues to be of importance to us, especially in regards to our LatAm as far as he is aware, the first British activity, which is a significant part of our business. We’ve also been particularly producer to do this. argue with his assertion that, “there is now less and less money available from busy in the U.S. cable drama space recently and have developed a number Over a career stretching back three broadcasters, but,” he continued, “it is of relationships with U.S.-based drama producers and creators, so L.A. decades Cohen has seen many changes. also true that there are more and more Screenings is not only a good place to talk to broadcasters about what we’re “In technology,” he pointed out, “we opportunities opening up elsewhere.” doing, but it also gives us a platform to develop even more relationships. have moved from 16 mm reversal, through tape to digital, and the move to As examples of such opportunities, tapeless production has had a significant Cohen highlighted, “new opportunities impact, as has the introduction of new in the area of branded programming as low energy lighting and cameras — well as in gaming.” He also pointed to, especially on drama.” “our acquisition of @radical.media in the branded programming arena, and also of The relentless march of technology Canadian gaming specialist, Ludia, both has also had a profound impact on of which we announced last October,” business models, with the arrival of as positioning FremantleMedia to move the multi-channel environment and into this new area, and he was clear as of a vibrant independent production to the importance he attaches to these sector, as well as the significant effects acquisitions. “They are,” he asserted, of so many new platforms, especially, in “central to our strategy of adapting to Cohen’s view, “mobile and the Internet rapidly changing entertainment business with the enormous impact of social models, and the very different way in networking and gaming in particular.” which companies will do entertainment In content, Cohen pointed to, “the in the future.” emergence of the super format and the Indeed Cohen believed that, “the birth, and long life of reality,” as key content business is changing very quickly developments, and he is adamant that, and will, I suspect, look very different, “analyzing these changes and adapting and very much more complicated in the interview, this has been the focus of constant. It has always believed in the FremantleMedia’s business to take future.” Which, presumably, is why he activity at FremantleMedia for some time maxim “think global, act local,” and has advantage of the opportunities they also noted that, “the role of any company now, and with the company’s recent move recently added to its 22 production offices offer has been our core activity for the in the content business has to be to into the area of kids’ programming he was and 11 representation offices around the past few years.” anticipate what the impact of the changes satisfied that, “FremantleMedia is now in world, with the acquisition of production But, for all of the undoubted we see all around us will be, and to adapt companies in Italy and The Netherlands to these changes. And,” he stressed, “the most of the areas of business we want to importance of the changes that have be in,” adding, “I have already mentioned and the opening of an office in India. taken place in the past few years, for main thing to understand is you can’t And, said Cohen, “the future growth hang around, you have to spot trends, the acquisition of @radical.media and Cohen, it has been the current trends that Ludia, and we have recently announced of Fremantle will be both organic and carry the greatest significance. “The most and, when you have identified one, you through acquisition. What is important is our first kids’ series, My Babysitter Is A important current trend,” he insisted, “is must move quickly with it and reorganize building partnerships and sometimes this that television audiences are still rising, your business to take account of the Vampire, and more will follow.” is better done through acquisitions, and and this is something we see in all the changes you have made.” In the midst of all this change, some sometimes organically, it just depends on world’s major television markets. In the As Cohen suggested earlier in this aspects of Fremantle’s business remain what the situation calls for.”

32 MIP 2011 Stand 19.21 Pod No. 11 Executive Attending: Ken DuBow, President VIDEO • AGE A PRIL 2 0 1 1 4132 Greenbrier Lane Tarzana, California 91356 Tel: +1.818.708.8278 Email: [email protected] twist that, “Some Oscar contenders media itself. Here’s how the HFPA is award ceremonies a month earlier, and [reluctantly] put their careers on hold described in one report found on the thus they represent a solid indicator of for nearly half a year as they bounce Internet: “The association does not which way the Oscars will be awarded. Award Not among banquets, red carpets, panel represent internationally renowned In both film and television, awards discussions and other fetes.” publications like Le Monde or The Times are associated with excellence and can of London. Indeed, it has repeatedly a Word So crowded is the U.S. award calendar therefore be seen on par with adjectives rejected applications from Sue Kim, a such as “great,” but grammatically the that some industry observers are even Le Monde correspondent, while accepting suggesting moving the Oscars to late word “award” is both a noun (e.g., applications from freelance writers from awardee) and a verb (e.g., awarded). It can January from the recent late February Bangladesh and South Korea.” (Continued from Cover) dates. This would be the fourth date also be an adjective (e.g., awardable). change for the Oscars (originally it Ironically, VideoAge contributed to the Awards are also associated with If, on the other hand, international was in mid-April, later moved to late revival and ultimate success of the Golden extravagant costs and therefore increasingly awards were also to be included, the March), but would result in the Golden Globes with an article in its October 1992 unnecessary expenditures. At times, “award” Issue, with the title crying, “Save HFPA.” industry could easily be paralyzed by a Globes moving back as well. is a word that some producers would like to gridlock. In that article VideoAge wrote: “As the The studios’ venom against the Golden remove from their vocabulary. The fact Golden Globe Awards approaches its that the awards are losing their shine was Just before this article was completed, Globes stems from the fact that, among 50th anniversary, many people in the first indicated in a New York Times story the Los Angeles Times came out with a story HFPA’s 90 members, only a few of them industry are revaluating the HFPA.” decrying the time when “Hollywood that pointed out how trade publications that write for recognized non-U.S. publications, But, the Academy has to contend depend mostly on award shows advertising had one award ceremony that mattered: and when they do, they’re minor stringers The Oscars.” The paper then continued with other awards as well, which all are suffering a loss of revenue. or free-lance. An Internet search indicated contribute to removing the element of with the theme of this article that, that some HFPA members write for Below is a list of key U.S. entertainment “Today, countless guilds, critics groups surprise from the Oscars. Three guilds awards from the four month period, their own websites, others are mainly representing producers, directors and and film festivals bestow…all prizes November 2010-March 2011: would-be actors and others free-lance actors — all of whom are voting from [September] to late February.” photojournalists. 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© 2011 WWE. All Rights Reserved. by trading authorities (like in the U.S.). the James Bond films. In 1990 at the age The 66-year-old Gustavo Cisneros Geographically, father and daughter of 81, New York-born Albert Romolo has headed Venezuela’s Cisneros Group Father & teams are mainly scattered throughout the Broccoli (affectionately known as Cubby) of companies since 1970. He took Daughter U.S., Canada, Europe and Latin America. turned control of Eon Productions over over nine years after his Cuban-born to his then 30-year-old daughter Barbara, father, Diego, founded Venevision, Latin America tops the list with ten Teams who was born in Los Angeles. Venezuela’s largest private broadcaster, current entries: Broccoli liked to keep his family in partnership with America’s ABC Venevision: Gustavo and Adriana close, so the children, Barbara and TV network. Today, the Group, one of (Continued from Cover) Cisneros (Venezuela and Florida) her half brother Michael G. Wilson, the world’s largest private enterprises, Daniele is 69. Currently, in the luxury SBT: Senor Abravanel (Silvio Santos) grew up around the Bond film sets. generates $4 billion a year and is goods business, there are Bernard and and Daniela Beyruti (Brazil) Barbara served in several capacities comprised of 70 companies operating Delphine Arnault, his oldest child (he Frequencia Latina: Baruch and Michal under her father from the age of 20 in 39 countries, making his family one has five children from two wives). (Miki) Ivcher (Peru and Florida) and got her first screen credit in the of the wealthiest in the world with an estimated worth of $10.7 billion. The 61-year-old Bernard is worth Televicentro: Jose Rafael and Pia 1983 Bond film Octopussy. Barbara and Among his prized possessions is the $27.5 billion and runs LVMH (Louis Ferrari (Honduras) Michael have co-produced Bond (and Vuitton, Dior, Fendi, etc.) along with non-Bond) films since Albert’s death Miss Venezuela beauty pageant, which Ecuavisa: Xavier and Ana Cecilia his 36-year-old daughter. Her net worth in 1996. he acquired in 1980. Alvarado (Ecuador) is estimated at $3.9 billion. Born in Caracas, Venezuela, Gustavo Rome, Italy-based media company, Albavision: Remigo Angel and is also a citizen of Spain and the Jan and Cristina Stenbeck represented Caltagirone Editore (CE) also deserves Morelia Gonzalez (Florida and Dominican Republic and maintains a team from Sweden. When her father to be mentioned. Although it is not in Guatemala) residences in New York City and Miami died at the age of 60, New York-born film and television, it is Italy’s fifth largest as well. Indeed, his business philosophy Cristina, then 25 years old, took contol Centauro: Gustavo, Andrea and editorial group. A public company, CE is to view North and South America as of Kinnevik, which, in turn, controls Francoise Nieto (Florida, Colombia is controlled and run by 68-year-old a single market. Gustavo was Diego’s Modern Times Group, one of Sweden’s and Brazil) founder Francesco Caltagirone and his fourth child out of eight children: seven largest TV groups. Teleunsa: Elias and Diana Asfura 38-year-old daughter Azzurra. From Mexico: Televisa’s Emilio (Honduras) sons and one daughter, and his younger U.S.-based Latin companies of brother Ricardo is his partner. Azcárraga Milmo, who died in 1997 at Red Uno: Ivo and Jessica Kuljis particular importance include The Educated in the U.S., Gustavo the age of 66, and his daughter, Ariana (Bolivia) Caballero Radio Network, created in Azcárraga de Surmont, from his second graduated from Babson College in Telemicro: Juan Ramon and Ivette 1973 and run by the founder, Eduardo wife (he had five wives, three daughters Massachusetts in 1968 and trained at Gomez Diaz (Dominican Republic) Caballero then 44, and his daughter and one son). Ariana is now 45 years old New York’s ABC TV station. In New Rosamaria, who, in 1999 at age 34 helped and, until recently, she was chairman of One past entry from Mexico: York in 1970 he married Patricia (Patty) him to create a TV network before selling Televisa Networks (formerly Visat). Phelps, whose family founded RCTV, Emilio Azcárraga and Ariana the group to Viacom in 2006. Perhaps it is because such teams Azcarraga de Surmont Venevision’s competitor. Among the aforementioned teams are rare and hard to come by that As with other media moguls, Cisneros The U.S. follows with four current about which VideoAge did not receive they tend to be more successful than entries and four past entries: walks the fine line between disclosures sufficient information by press time are others. Forbes reported that, according and business. He’s very careful about his News Corp: Rupert and Liz Honduras’ Elias and Diana Asfura from to a 2009 study from the University of and his family’s public image. Indeed, very Murdoch Teleunsa, Bolivia’s Ivo and Jessica Kuljis Maryland, only six percent of women few personal details can be found about from Red Uno, and the Dominican born in the early 1900s went into their Viacom/CBS: Sumner and Shari his wife Patty or their three children, Republic’s Juan Ramon and Ivette Gomez father’s industry, compared with about Redstone Carolina, Guillermo and Adriana. Diaz from Telemicro. 20 percent of those born between 1960 NewsProNet: Rick and Deanna Ray Even in a 2004 book, Gustavo Cisneros A final annotation: Latin America and 1980. The Lippin Group: Richard (Dick) Pioneer, which was publicized as Gustavo’s has always been considered a macho Even though father and daughter and Alex Lippin biography and the company’s history, no (Spanish for masculine) region. But teams in the entertainment sector are Playboy: Hugh and Christie Hefner mention is made of his three children, judging from the large number of few, other industries have even fewer. except in pictured family photos. It is Eon Productions: Cubby and Barbara daughters that have joined their fathers For example, in the construction possible that at the time no command Broccoli in business, compared to other regions business, the only prominent example succession had been developed. Recently, in the world, one has to conclude that is the U.S. real estate firm of Donald Carlos, Maria and Caroline Barba however, as per March 2010, Adriana North America or even Europe is more and Ivanka Trump. In finance there Eduardo and Rosamaria Caballero Cisneros, the 31-year-old daughter of macho, while Latin America is hembra. is the team of Edward III and Abigail Italy has two current entries: Gustavo and the youngest of his three Johnson of Fidelity Investments. From children, has emerged “As a third- Mediaset: Silvio and Marina GUSTAVO AND ADRIANA CISNEROS Canada, the former team of Frank and generation leader of the Cisneros Group,” Berlusconi Belinda Stronach ran one of the world’s as stated on the company website, which biggest auto parts companies, Magna LUX Vide: Ettore and Matilde also points out that, as vice chairman, International. Bernabei “She works closely with her father in Mother and daughter teams are also rare One current entry from Canada: managing operations and in developing in the entertainment business, with the only Corus Entertainment: James Robert strategy for the Group as a whole.” prominent example coming from 70-year- (JR) and Heather Shaw Adriana joined her father in 2005, old Liz (Elisabeth) Mohn and 47-year-old Two past entries come from moving around four positions before Brigitte Mohn, who own the German Scandinavia: taking her current role as vice chairman. media conglomerate Bertelsmann. She received a bachelor’s degree from TV Norge: Ola and Benedicte Naturally, the list of father and Columbia University in 2002 and a Steinsrud (Norway) daughter teams is limited to private master’s degree in Journalism from groups or family-controlled public Kinnevik: Jan and Cristina Stenbeck New York University in 2005. Adriana, companies, since in pure publicly-traded (Sweden) who’s also the mother of a son and a companies nepotism can be illegal (in Before moving to individual descriptions, daughter, lives in Manhattan with her countries such as Italy) or fall under the Broccoli father and daughter team husband Nicholas Griffin, a British Gustavo and Adriana Cisneros discrimination laws or investigations deserves a few more lines for producing writer, and in Coral Gables, Florida.

(Continued on Page 38) 36 VIDEO • AGE A PRIL 2 0 1 1 by trading authorities (like in the U.S.). the James Bond films. In 1990 at the age The 66-year-old Gustavo Cisneros Geographically, father and daughter of 81, New York-born Albert Romolo has headed Venezuela’s Cisneros Group Father & teams are mainly scattered throughout the Broccoli (affectionately known as Cubby) of companies since 1970. He took Daughter U.S., Canada, Europe and Latin America. turned control of Eon Productions over over nine years after his Cuban-born to his then 30-year-old daughter Barbara, father, Diego, founded Venevision, Latin America tops the list with ten Teams who was born in Los Angeles. Venezuela’s largest private broadcaster, current entries: Broccoli liked to keep his family in partnership with America’s ABC Venevision: Gustavo and Adriana close, so the children, Barbara and TV network. Today, the Group, one of (Continued from Cover) Cisneros (Venezuela and Florida) her half brother Michael G. Wilson, the world’s largest private enterprises, Daniele is 69. Currently, in the luxury SBT: Senor Abravanel (Silvio Santos) grew up around the Bond film sets. generates $4 billion a year and is goods business, there are Bernard and and Daniela Beyruti (Brazil) Barbara served in several capacities comprised of 70 companies operating Delphine Arnault, his oldest child (he Frequencia Latina: Baruch and Michal under her father from the age of 20 in 39 countries, making his family one has five children from two wives). (Miki) Ivcher (Peru and Florida) and got her first screen credit in the of the wealthiest in the world with an estimated worth of $10.7 billion. The 61-year-old Bernard is worth Televicentro: Jose Rafael and Pia 1983 Bond film Octopussy. Barbara and Among his prized possessions is the $27.5 billion and runs LVMH (Louis Ferrari (Honduras) Michael have co-produced Bond (and Vuitton, Dior, Fendi, etc.) along with non-Bond) films since Albert’s death Miss Venezuela beauty pageant, which Ecuavisa: Xavier and Ana Cecilia his 36-year-old daughter. Her net worth in 1996. he acquired in 1980. Alvarado (Ecuador) is estimated at $3.9 billion. Born in Caracas, Venezuela, Gustavo Rome, Italy-based media company, Albavision: Remigo Angel and is also a citizen of Spain and the Jan and Cristina Stenbeck represented Caltagirone Editore (CE) also deserves Morelia Gonzalez (Florida and Dominican Republic and maintains a team from Sweden. When her father to be mentioned. Although it is not in Guatemala) residences in New York City and Miami died at the age of 60, New York-born film and television, it is Italy’s fifth largest as well. Indeed, his business philosophy Cristina, then 25 years old, took contol Centauro: Gustavo, Andrea and editorial group. A public company, CE is to view North and South America as of Kinnevik, which, in turn, controls Francoise Nieto (Florida, Colombia is controlled and run by 68-year-old a single market. Gustavo was Diego’s Modern Times Group, one of Sweden’s and Brazil) founder Francesco Caltagirone and his fourth child out of eight children: seven largest TV groups. Teleunsa: Elias and Diana Asfura 38-year-old daughter Azzurra. From Mexico: Televisa’s Emilio (Honduras) sons and one daughter, and his younger U.S.-based Latin companies of brother Ricardo is his partner. Azcárraga Milmo, who died in 1997 at Red Uno: Ivo and Jessica Kuljis particular importance include The Educated in the U.S., Gustavo the age of 66, and his daughter, Ariana (Bolivia) Caballero Radio Network, created in Azcárraga de Surmont, from his second graduated from Babson College in Telemicro: Juan Ramon and Ivette 1973 and run by the founder, Eduardo wife (he had five wives, three daughters Massachusetts in 1968 and trained at Gomez Diaz (Dominican Republic) Caballero then 44, and his daughter and one son). Ariana is now 45 years old New York’s ABC TV station. In New Rosamaria, who, in 1999 at age 34 helped and, until recently, she was chairman of One past entry from Mexico: York in 1970 he married Patricia (Patty) him to create a TV network before selling Televisa Networks (formerly Visat). Phelps, whose family founded RCTV, Emilio Azcárraga and Ariana the group to Viacom in 2006. Perhaps it is because such teams Azcarraga de Surmont Venevision’s competitor. Among the aforementioned teams are rare and hard to come by that As with other media moguls, Cisneros The U.S. follows with four current about which VideoAge did not receive they tend to be more successful than entries and four past entries: walks the fine line between disclosures sufficient information by press time are others. Forbes reported that, according and business. He’s very careful about his News Corp: Rupert and Liz Honduras’ Elias and Diana Asfura from to a 2009 study from the University of and his family’s public image. Indeed, very Murdoch Teleunsa, Bolivia’s Ivo and Jessica Kuljis Maryland, only six percent of women few personal details can be found about from Red Uno, and the Dominican born in the early 1900s went into their Viacom/CBS: Sumner and Shari his wife Patty or their three children, Republic’s Juan Ramon and Ivette Gomez father’s industry, compared with about Redstone Carolina, Guillermo and Adriana. Diaz from Telemicro. 20 percent of those born between 1960 NewsProNet: Rick and Deanna Ray Even in a 2004 book, Gustavo Cisneros A final annotation: Latin America and 1980. The Lippin Group: Richard (Dick) Pioneer, which was publicized as Gustavo’s has always been considered a macho Even though father and daughter and Alex Lippin biography and the company’s history, no (Spanish for masculine) region. But teams in the entertainment sector are Playboy: Hugh and Christie Hefner mention is made of his three children, judging from the large number of few, other industries have even fewer. except in pictured family photos. It is Eon Productions: Cubby and Barbara daughters that have joined their fathers For example, in the construction possible that at the time no command Broccoli in business, compared to other regions business, the only prominent example succession had been developed. Recently, in the world, one has to conclude that is the U.S. real estate firm of Donald Carlos, Maria and Caroline Barba however, as per March 2010, Adriana North America or even Europe is more and Ivanka Trump. In finance there Eduardo and Rosamaria Caballero Cisneros, the 31-year-old daughter of macho, while Latin America is hembra. is the team of Edward III and Abigail Italy has two current entries: Gustavo and the youngest of his three Johnson of Fidelity Investments. From children, has emerged “As a third- Mediaset: Silvio and Marina GUSTAVO AND ADRIANA CISNEROS Canada, the former team of Frank and generation leader of the Cisneros Group,” Berlusconi Belinda Stronach ran one of the world’s as stated on the company website, which biggest auto parts companies, Magna LUX Vide: Ettore and Matilde also points out that, as vice chairman, International. Bernabei “She works closely with her father in Mother and daughter teams are also rare One current entry from Canada: managing operations and in developing in the entertainment business, with the only Corus Entertainment: James Robert strategy for the Group as a whole.” prominent example coming from 70-year- (JR) and Heather Shaw Adriana joined her father in 2005, old Liz (Elisabeth) Mohn and 47-year-old Two past entries come from moving around four positions before Brigitte Mohn, who own the German Scandinavia: taking her current role as vice chairman. media conglomerate Bertelsmann. She received a bachelor’s degree from TV Norge: Ola and Benedicte Naturally, the list of father and Columbia University in 2002 and a Steinsrud (Norway) daughter teams is limited to private master’s degree in Journalism from groups or family-controlled public Kinnevik: Jan and Cristina Stenbeck New York University in 2005. Adriana, companies, since in pure publicly-traded (Sweden) who’s also the mother of a son and a companies nepotism can be illegal (in Before moving to individual descriptions, daughter, lives in Manhattan with her countries such as Italy) or fall under the Broccoli father and daughter team husband Nicholas Griffin, a British Gustavo and Adriana Cisneros discrimination laws or investigations deserves a few more lines for producing writer, and in Coral Gables, Florida.

(Continued on Page 38) 36 VIDEO • AGE A PRIL 2 0 1 1 SBT including Roberto Justus and Roberto JOSE RAFAEL AND PIA U.S. where in 2000 she developed Cabrini, and running popular shows such (ROSINA) FERRARI a telenovela unit for Ecuavisa. In Father & as Squadron Fashion, Ten Years Younger, November of last year she relocated to What’s Your Talent? and You Remember Ecuador where she now presides over Daughter That? She was also the executive producer Ecuavisa’s production unit, Two World Teams of the Brazilian version of American Idol Media. and responsible for putting the American Xavier’s other daughter, Silvia, now Supernatural in prime time. Daniela also 45, started to work at Ecuavisa in 1984, (Continued from Page 36) signed an exclusive advertising contract climbing to program director. She later with Corinthians, one of the most popular moved to Brazil as an advisor to Silvio SENOR ABRAVANEL (SILVIO SANTOS) soccer teams in Brazil. (Maria Zuppello in Santos’ SBT. AND DANIELA ABRAVANEL BEYRUTI Sao Paolo, Brazil) ANGEL AND MORELIA GONZALEZ BARUCH AND Remigio Angel Gonzalez y Gonzalez MICHAL (MIKI) IVCHER Jose Rafael and Pia Ferrari (simply known as Angel Gonzalez) is In 1957, after graduating from the president and owner of Albavision, University of Southern California, a Miami, Florida-based group that 23-year-old Jose Rafael Ferrari returned controls 26 TV stations in 10 Latin to Honduras to take over the family American countries, 21 of which it business. His parents founded HRN, owns while the rest are affiliated for Honduras’ first commercial radio programming. Albavision also controls station, in 1933 and, in 1957, expanded 82 radio stations (25 of which are into television, which later became the owned and operated) and 40 movie Televicentro Group (comprised of nine theaters in Guatemala and Costa Rica. Silvio Santos and Daniela Abravanel TV and 11 radio stations). Born in 1944 in the north of Mexico, In 1987 Rafael tapped the youngest Angel started his television career in Better known as Silvio Santos, 81-year- Baruch and Michal (Miki) Ivcher of his two daughters, Rosina (who 1971. He acquired his first two TV old Senor Abravanel is one of the later changed her name to Pia), as his stations in Guatemala in 1981, and most famous Brazilian TV show hosts Frecuencia Latina (Canal 2) is a Lima, future back up. At that time, Pia was moved to Miami in 1987. and entrepreneurs. He is the owner of Peru-based TV station, founded in 15 years old and started as a video DJ He’s known for using pencils to Silvio Santos Group, which comprises 1962 that became a national network in after school. negotiate license fees so that figures can 1990. At 44, Israeli-born Baruch Ivcher 37 companies, including the Brazilian Subsequently, Pia left the country be easily erased and replaced with his Bronstein became Frecuencia Latina’s Television System (SBT) network, one to attend college in the U.S. and to traditional 25 percent cut. Distributors of the top-ranked Brazilian television main shareholder (54 percent ownership) tend to grumble but like to do business in 1984, after living in Peru for 14 years. be trained at the Univision station networks, founded in 1981. in Florida. She returned to Honduras with him because he pays on time. Santos was born in Rio de Janeiro, in When the station exposed government in 1993 to coordinate Televicentro’s Angel Gonzalez is assisted in Miami by the Lapa region. He is of Sephardic Jewish corruption in 1997, Peruvian president productions and co-productions and, his oldest daughter, 35-year-old Morelia, descent. Despite his humble beginnings Alberto Fujimori ordered Ivcher stripped for a while, anchored the network’s who entered her father’s company at working as a street vendor, he had a strong of his Peruvian citizenship (acquired in main news program. Pia also worked an early age and now runs the group’s affinity for artistic endeavors and took up 1984 in order to own radio and TV in the promo department and she’s financial division. Another daughter, stations in the country) and forced him jobs in radio, television and even at the currently general programming Anita, is a housewife, but her husband, into exile. While Ivcher was in exile, circus. Silvio Santos’ nickname when he manager for Latin Acquisitions. Marco Cuomo, works at Albavision. was young was, “O peru que fala” (the the Peruvian government continued to VideoAge featured an extensive report talking turkey) because of his blushed skin harass him, and even submitted a warrant XAVIER AND about Angel Gonzalez in its January tone. He has always been considered a for his arrest through Interpol. In 1999, ANA CECILIA ALVARADO 2010 Issue. “born buyer,” or someone born for buying while on a family trip to Crete, he was companies. He married twice, to Maria detained at the airport along with his GUSTAVO, FRANCOISE AND Aparecida (who died of cancer in 1977) and daughter, Michal, but they were later Íris, his current wife. He has six daughters, released. ANDREA NIETO two of them adopted, all working in Since late 1997 the Inter-American his group. The second born, Patricia, Commission on Human Rights called was kidnapped in 2001 and released on the Peruvian government to reinstate soon after, reportedly after her father Ivcher as president of Canal 2 and paid ransom. Daniela Abravanel Beyruti, restore his Peruvian citizenship. But at 34, is the eldest daughter of Silvio’s only after the fall of Fujimori in the year second marriage. Married to Brazilian 2000 did ownership of Canal 2 revert businessman Marcelo Beyruti, she started to Ivcher, and he and his family (wife working at SBT in 2003. From 2008 to and four daughters) were able to return Ana Cecilia and Xavier Alvarado 2010 she was president of SBT. Since 2010 to Peru, where he found the channel in she has preferred to be the artistic director deficit of the equivalent of $52 million. Xavier Alvarado began his career and programming manager, considering it Michal (Miki) Ivcher is Baruch’s oldest as a journalist, founding, in 1958, the most important for her career at SBT. daughter and the founder and CEO of monthly publication Vistazo in his She graduated from two universities Miami, Florida-based Frecuencia Latina L.to r.: Andrea, Francoise, Gustavo Nieto International (FLI), created in 2001 as native Ecuador. In 1967, at the age of in the U.S.: The College of International 31, Xavier expanded into television Communications at Lynn University in a company that exclusively distributes Gustavo Nieto was born in Tunja, Canal 2’s TV productions. In 2004, with Ecuavisa, now a national TV Boca Raton, Florida, and Regent University network. Colombia 60 years ago. He studied in Virginia Beach, Virginia, where she FLI became independent of Canal 2, Film at New York University and received a master’s in Performing Arts. even though it continues to distribute its His oldest daughter Ana Cecilia worked at the Film Department of After graduating, she worked as a producer productions and formats worldwide. joined the company at 22 as promotion the United Nations in New York City and presenter in Virginia Beach at born- An ironic footnote is that Fujimori’s director in 1984, after receiving a before going back to Colombia where again Christian broadcaster Pat Robertson’s 36-year-old daughter, Keiko Sofia, is degree in Journalism from Syracuse he directed feature films. In 1979 CBN. Beyruti’s accomplishments include now one of Peru’s potential presidential University, in New York state. Gustavo founded Centauro Group hiring nationally known presenters to the candidates. In 1988 Ana returned to the in Bogotá, specializing in language

(Continued on Page 40) 38 VIDEO • AGE A PRIL 2 0 1 1 SBT including Roberto Justus and Roberto JOSE RAFAEL AND PIA U.S. where in 2000 she developed Cabrini, and running popular shows such (ROSINA) FERRARI a telenovela unit for Ecuavisa. In Father & as Squadron Fashion, Ten Years Younger, November of last year she relocated to What’s Your Talent? and You Remember Ecuador where she now presides over Daughter That? She was also the executive producer Ecuavisa’s production unit, Two World Teams of the Brazilian version of American Idol Media. and responsible for putting the American Xavier’s other daughter, Silvia, now Supernatural in prime time. Daniela also 45, started to work at Ecuavisa in 1984, (Continued from Page 36) signed an exclusive advertising contract climbing to program director. She later with Corinthians, one of the most popular moved to Brazil as an advisor to Silvio SENOR ABRAVANEL (SILVIO SANTOS) soccer teams in Brazil. (Maria Zuppello in Santos’ SBT. AND DANIELA ABRAVANEL BEYRUTI Sao Paolo, Brazil) ANGEL AND MORELIA GONZALEZ BARUCH AND Remigio Angel Gonzalez y Gonzalez MICHAL (MIKI) IVCHER Jose Rafael and Pia Ferrari (simply known as Angel Gonzalez) is In 1957, after graduating from the president and owner of Albavision, University of Southern California, a Miami, Florida-based group that 23-year-old Jose Rafael Ferrari returned controls 26 TV stations in 10 Latin to Honduras to take over the family American countries, 21 of which it business. His parents founded HRN, owns while the rest are affiliated for Honduras’ first commercial radio programming. Albavision also controls station, in 1933 and, in 1957, expanded 82 radio stations (25 of which are into television, which later became the owned and operated) and 40 movie Televicentro Group (comprised of nine theaters in Guatemala and Costa Rica. Silvio Santos and Daniela Abravanel TV and 11 radio stations). Born in 1944 in the north of Mexico, In 1987 Rafael tapped the youngest Angel started his television career in Better known as Silvio Santos, 81-year- Baruch and Michal (Miki) Ivcher of his two daughters, Rosina (who 1971. He acquired his first two TV old Senor Abravanel is one of the later changed her name to Pia), as his stations in Guatemala in 1981, and most famous Brazilian TV show hosts Frecuencia Latina (Canal 2) is a Lima, future back up. At that time, Pia was moved to Miami in 1987. and entrepreneurs. He is the owner of Peru-based TV station, founded in 15 years old and started as a video DJ He’s known for using pencils to Silvio Santos Group, which comprises 1962 that became a national network in after school. negotiate license fees so that figures can 1990. At 44, Israeli-born Baruch Ivcher 37 companies, including the Brazilian Subsequently, Pia left the country be easily erased and replaced with his Bronstein became Frecuencia Latina’s Television System (SBT) network, one to attend college in the U.S. and to traditional 25 percent cut. Distributors of the top-ranked Brazilian television main shareholder (54 percent ownership) tend to grumble but like to do business in 1984, after living in Peru for 14 years. be trained at the Univision station networks, founded in 1981. in Florida. She returned to Honduras with him because he pays on time. Santos was born in Rio de Janeiro, in When the station exposed government in 1993 to coordinate Televicentro’s Angel Gonzalez is assisted in Miami by the Lapa region. He is of Sephardic Jewish corruption in 1997, Peruvian president productions and co-productions and, his oldest daughter, 35-year-old Morelia, descent. Despite his humble beginnings Alberto Fujimori ordered Ivcher stripped for a while, anchored the network’s who entered her father’s company at working as a street vendor, he had a strong of his Peruvian citizenship (acquired in main news program. Pia also worked an early age and now runs the group’s affinity for artistic endeavors and took up 1984 in order to own radio and TV in the promo department and she’s financial division. Another daughter, stations in the country) and forced him jobs in radio, television and even at the currently general programming Anita, is a housewife, but her husband, into exile. While Ivcher was in exile, circus. Silvio Santos’ nickname when he manager for Latin Acquisitions. Marco Cuomo, works at Albavision. was young was, “O peru que fala” (the the Peruvian government continued to VideoAge featured an extensive report talking turkey) because of his blushed skin harass him, and even submitted a warrant XAVIER AND about Angel Gonzalez in its January tone. He has always been considered a for his arrest through Interpol. In 1999, ANA CECILIA ALVARADO 2010 Issue. “born buyer,” or someone born for buying while on a family trip to Crete, he was companies. He married twice, to Maria detained at the airport along with his GUSTAVO, FRANCOISE AND Aparecida (who died of cancer in 1977) and daughter, Michal, but they were later Íris, his current wife. He has six daughters, released. ANDREA NIETO two of them adopted, all working in Since late 1997 the Inter-American his group. The second born, Patricia, Commission on Human Rights called was kidnapped in 2001 and released on the Peruvian government to reinstate soon after, reportedly after her father Ivcher as president of Canal 2 and paid ransom. Daniela Abravanel Beyruti, restore his Peruvian citizenship. But at 34, is the eldest daughter of Silvio’s only after the fall of Fujimori in the year second marriage. Married to Brazilian 2000 did ownership of Canal 2 revert businessman Marcelo Beyruti, she started to Ivcher, and he and his family (wife working at SBT in 2003. From 2008 to and four daughters) were able to return Ana Cecilia and Xavier Alvarado 2010 she was president of SBT. Since 2010 to Peru, where he found the channel in she has preferred to be the artistic director deficit of the equivalent of $52 million. Xavier Alvarado began his career and programming manager, considering it Michal (Miki) Ivcher is Baruch’s oldest as a journalist, founding, in 1958, the most important for her career at SBT. daughter and the founder and CEO of monthly publication Vistazo in his She graduated from two universities Miami, Florida-based Frecuencia Latina L.to r.: Andrea, Francoise, Gustavo Nieto International (FLI), created in 2001 as native Ecuador. In 1967, at the age of in the U.S.: The College of International 31, Xavier expanded into television Communications at Lynn University in a company that exclusively distributes Gustavo Nieto was born in Tunja, Canal 2’s TV productions. In 2004, with Ecuavisa, now a national TV Boca Raton, Florida, and Regent University network. Colombia 60 years ago. He studied in Virginia Beach, Virginia, where she FLI became independent of Canal 2, Film at New York University and received a master’s in Performing Arts. even though it continues to distribute its His oldest daughter Ana Cecilia worked at the Film Department of After graduating, she worked as a producer productions and formats worldwide. joined the company at 22 as promotion the United Nations in New York City and presenter in Virginia Beach at born- An ironic footnote is that Fujimori’s director in 1984, after receiving a before going back to Colombia where again Christian broadcaster Pat Robertson’s 36-year-old daughter, Keiko Sofia, is degree in Journalism from Syracuse he directed feature films. In 1979 CBN. Beyruti’s accomplishments include now one of Peru’s potential presidential University, in New York state. Gustavo founded Centauro Group hiring nationally known presenters to the candidates. In 1988 Ana returned to the in Bogotá, specializing in language

(Continued on Page 40) 38 VIDEO • AGE A PRIL 2 0 1 1 In the year 2000, after disagreements Viacom bought Paramount Pictures. from the University of Miami with a with BSkyB’s CEO Sam Chisholm, Liz He has two children by his first wife B.S. in Communications. Father & left the satellite platform and founded of 55 years: Brent and Shari Redstone. Rick has acquired distribution rights Daughter Shine in 2001, now holding 53 percent He has no children with his second for various projects that Deanna now See us at MIPTV, stand 14.02 ownership. Other major investors were wife, from whom he is divorced. reps and distributes at NPN (in addition Teams BSkyB, which held 13 percent and Sony to other programs NPN has rights to). Pictures, with 20 percent (the rest is Shari, now 57, is the youngest of Sumner’s children. She graduated from owned by the company’s management). RICHARD (DICK) AND In 2008 Shine acquired Hollywood’s Tufts University in 1975, and later (Continued from Page 38) ALEXANDRA (ALEX) LIPPIN Reveille (the U.S. producer of The Office received two law degrees at the Boston dubbing into Spanish, Portuguese and and Ugly Betty) for $156 million. University School of Law in 1978 and 1980. She worked as a criminal defense English. Today, Centauro also produces By 2010 Shine’s revenues reached feature films and TV programs. lawyer and a corporate attorney until more than U.K. £300 million (U.S.$483 she and her husband divorced in 1994. In 1988 he opened a studio for million) with earnings of over £28 At that time, when she was 40 years old, dubbing in Miami, Florida (which million (U.S.$45 million). The U.K. she accepted her father’s offer to work became the Group’s headquarters) and, daily, the Guardian, however, estimated at National Amusements. By 2000, in 2001, another one in Sao Paulo, that “real pre-tax profits [were] just £2 Shari became president of National Brazil. Earlier, in 1991 Gustavo’s million ($3.2 million). In addition, the Amusements. two daughters moved to Florida, and company had debts estimated at $88 seven years later his oldest daughter, million, while an additional $72 million According to Boston Magazine, Sumner’s Francoise, then 27, went to work with was tapped from shareholders in 2008 trusts make clear that Shari will succeed her him in his Miami facility. Previously, and 2009.” The Guardian reported that father upon his death, provided that she is she attended Cornell University in Liz and her two brothers received $100 still on the boards of Viacom and CBS, and Ithaca, NY. Besides being a successful million each when they agreed to allow Sumner has announced publicly that his Richard (Dick) and Alexandra (Alex) Lippin documentary producer, she now heads Rupert and Wendi Deng’s (Rupert’s stock has been placed in irrevocable trusts for his five grandchildren (Shari has three the Translations Division and also third wife) two young children into the A former Wall Street-er who also children of her own). Shari is currently focuses on Public Relations and Sales. family trust that controls News Corp. ran political campaigns in Washington, president of National Amusements, non- Gustavo’s youngest daughter, Last January, Liz hired JPMorgan to D.C., Dick Lippin is now a Hollywood executive vice-chairman of Viacom and Andrea, joined the Group in 2004, advise on “growth opportunities,” which insider, a power player in the vice-chairman of CBS Corporation. when she was 30. She attended Florida resulted in a sale to her father’s News international entertainment arena and However, Shari and Sumner have publicly International University. Today she’s Corp. for $673 million, including debt. a power broker in the U.S. feuded over the future of the business, and managing director of the Dubbing Liz will also take a seat on News Corp.’s Sumner has reportedly been reconsidering Lippin operates from The Lippin Operation, based in Miami. Andrea’s board. Group (TLG), a PR agency that he seven-month-old daughter, Mia, is also Shari’s role in Viacom and CBS. According In 2009 she declined a seat on the board founded in 1986 at age 36 in Hollywood, “being prepped to eventually join the to Boston Magazine, in a 2007 letter to Forbes of her father’s company because joining after a stint at a PR agency that he family business” and she already has a magazine, Sumner stated that shareholders News Corp., which owns 39.1 percent of co-owned in New York City. NATPE and this MIP on her resume. should select the future head of Viacom BSkyB, would have meant Shine would and CBS Corporation. (Sara Alessi in New His only child, Alexandra, joined the no longer qualify as an independent York) Group in 2006, when she was 25, after RUPERT AND ELISABETH producer, and would therefore be graduating from Brandeis University (LIZ) MURDOCH ineligible to produce for groups such RICK AND DEANNA RAY in Boston. Previously, she worked in as the BBC and Channel 4. The sale of Hollywood at MTV and Telepictures. In 1979, 30-year-old Rick Ray (then a Shine to News Corp. could indicate that Alex is now TLG’s senior VP and she is a possible successor to Rupert. Liz TV station program manager) and his wife Dee, founded Raycom Sports, a collegiate heads up the Brand to Hollywood is also known for her endurance, as she’s division, one of TLG’s eight willing to seclude herself in screening sports production and distribution company in Charlotte, North Carolina. In operating areas employing 40 full-time rooms for hours scrutinizing every show communications executives in the Los she produced or acquired. If personality- 1996, Raycom Sports merged with Ellis Communications, becoming the basis Angeles headquarters and offices in wise father and daughter are said to be New York City and London. of similar temperament, they are on the for Raycom Media, now the 12th largest opposite spectrum as far as politics are media company in the U.S., operating 45 Rupert and Elisabeth (Liz) TV stations in 36 U.S. markets. CARLOS, MARIA AND Murdoch concerned, with Rupert on the extreme right and Liz on the far left. After leaving Raycom in 1998, Rick CAROLINE BARBA The 80-year-old Melbourne, pursued a number of investments If Cuban-born Carlos had a TV set as a Australia-born Rupert Murdoch is the SUMNER AND SHARI REDSTONE including Action Performance, which toy in the crib, his daughter Caroline was founder and chairman of News Corp. controls 80 percent of all merchandising literally born in a TV studio. That was Sumner Redstone, 87, is a majority in 1972, when her 37-year-old father was Elisabeth (Liz), born in 1968 in Sydney, owner and chairman of the board for NASCAR-related products. In Australia, is his second oldest offspring, addition, he’s involved in producing in New Jersey running WNJU-TV for of the National Amusements theater Columbia Pictures, which later became out of six children (from three wives). chain, which is the parent company of long-form cable television programs and has acquired feature film assets. the flagship TV station of the Spanish- Rupert Murdoch moved to New York Viacom and CBS Corporation, among language network, Telemundo. At that in 1974 and became a U.S. citizen in 1985. others. His father Michael founded In 2010 Rick joined Miami, Florida- time, Carlos’ seven-year-old Maria was By 2010 he controlled 750 businesses Northeast Theater Corporation, the based NewsProNet’s advisory board, already sitting in her father’s office in 50 countries and amassed a personal forerunner of National Amusements, although he lives in Hilton Head Island, making commercials for the station. fortune estimated at $6.3 billion. which currently runs more than 950 South Carolina. Later on, after graduating from movie screens in the U.S., the U.K. and Liz attended Brearley School in New NewsProNet (NPN) is a digital short- American University in Washington D.C. Latin America. York City and, after graduating from form production and distribution company in 1997, Maria went to work for her father, Vassar College in 1992, she became Sumner joined his father’s theater founded in 1997 by Susan Krivelow and then at Univision. She followed Carlos manager of Program Acquisitions at her chain in 1954, and in 1967, at 44, he Kent Krizik and today owned by its acting in 1991 when he became president of father’s FX Network in Los Angeles. became president and CEO of National chairman, Bob Rodriguez. Venevision International, in Miami as head The Murdoch family left New York for Amusements. Rick’s 23-year-old daughter, Deanna of Marketing and Public Relations. When, Beverly Hills, CA in 1991. Through National Amusements, he (the third oldest of four children), is the in 1999 Carlos founded UnoDosTres, one In 1995 Liz moved with her first invested in Columbia Pictures, Twentieth only one joining her father in the media of the first Internet TV companies, Maria husband to London, U.K., as managing Century Fox, Orion Pictures and industry when, in 2010, she became joined her father as promotion manager. director of BSkyB. She’s now a citizen Paramount Pictures. In 1987, Sumner won an account executive for the domestic Caroline, on the other hand, was of both the U.S. and Britain. voting control of Viacom, and in 1993, division at NewsProNet. She graduated more interested in working as an artist

(Continued on Page 42) 40 VIDEO • AGE A PRIL 2 0 1 1 In the year 2000, after disagreements Viacom bought Paramount Pictures. from the University of Miami with a with BSkyB’s CEO Sam Chisholm, Liz He has two children by his first wife B.S. in Communications. Father & left the satellite platform and founded of 55 years: Brent and Shari Redstone. Rick has acquired distribution rights Daughter Shine in 2001, now holding 53 percent He has no children with his second for various projects that Deanna now See us at MIPTV, stand 14.02 ownership. Other major investors were wife, from whom he is divorced. reps and distributes at NPN (in addition Teams BSkyB, which held 13 percent and Sony to other programs NPN has rights to). Pictures, with 20 percent (the rest is Shari, now 57, is the youngest of Sumner’s children. She graduated from owned by the company’s management). RICHARD (DICK) AND In 2008 Shine acquired Hollywood’s Tufts University in 1975, and later (Continued from Page 38) ALEXANDRA (ALEX) LIPPIN Reveille (the U.S. producer of The Office received two law degrees at the Boston dubbing into Spanish, Portuguese and and Ugly Betty) for $156 million. University School of Law in 1978 and 1980. She worked as a criminal defense English. Today, Centauro also produces By 2010 Shine’s revenues reached feature films and TV programs. lawyer and a corporate attorney until more than U.K. £300 million (U.S.$483 she and her husband divorced in 1994. In 1988 he opened a studio for million) with earnings of over £28 At that time, when she was 40 years old, dubbing in Miami, Florida (which million (U.S.$45 million). The U.K. she accepted her father’s offer to work became the Group’s headquarters) and, daily, the Guardian, however, estimated at National Amusements. By 2000, in 2001, another one in Sao Paulo, that “real pre-tax profits [were] just £2 Shari became president of National Brazil. Earlier, in 1991 Gustavo’s million ($3.2 million). In addition, the Amusements. two daughters moved to Florida, and company had debts estimated at $88 seven years later his oldest daughter, million, while an additional $72 million According to Boston Magazine, Sumner’s Francoise, then 27, went to work with was tapped from shareholders in 2008 trusts make clear that Shari will succeed her him in his Miami facility. Previously, and 2009.” The Guardian reported that father upon his death, provided that she is she attended Cornell University in Liz and her two brothers received $100 still on the boards of Viacom and CBS, and Ithaca, NY. Besides being a successful million each when they agreed to allow Sumner has announced publicly that his Richard (Dick) and Alexandra (Alex) Lippin documentary producer, she now heads Rupert and Wendi Deng’s (Rupert’s stock has been placed in irrevocable trusts for his five grandchildren (Shari has three the Translations Division and also third wife) two young children into the A former Wall Street-er who also children of her own). Shari is currently focuses on Public Relations and Sales. family trust that controls News Corp. ran political campaigns in Washington, president of National Amusements, non- Gustavo’s youngest daughter, Last January, Liz hired JPMorgan to D.C., Dick Lippin is now a Hollywood executive vice-chairman of Viacom and Andrea, joined the Group in 2004, advise on “growth opportunities,” which insider, a power player in the vice-chairman of CBS Corporation. when she was 30. She attended Florida resulted in a sale to her father’s News international entertainment arena and However, Shari and Sumner have publicly International University. Today she’s Corp. for $673 million, including debt. a power broker in the U.S. feuded over the future of the business, and managing director of the Dubbing Liz will also take a seat on News Corp.’s Sumner has reportedly been reconsidering Lippin operates from The Lippin Operation, based in Miami. Andrea’s board. Group (TLG), a PR agency that he seven-month-old daughter, Mia, is also Shari’s role in Viacom and CBS. According In 2009 she declined a seat on the board founded in 1986 at age 36 in Hollywood, “being prepped to eventually join the to Boston Magazine, in a 2007 letter to Forbes of her father’s company because joining after a stint at a PR agency that he family business” and she already has a magazine, Sumner stated that shareholders News Corp., which owns 39.1 percent of co-owned in New York City. NATPE and this MIP on her resume. should select the future head of Viacom BSkyB, would have meant Shine would and CBS Corporation. (Sara Alessi in New His only child, Alexandra, joined the no longer qualify as an independent York) Group in 2006, when she was 25, after RUPERT AND ELISABETH producer, and would therefore be graduating from Brandeis University (LIZ) MURDOCH ineligible to produce for groups such RICK AND DEANNA RAY in Boston. Previously, she worked in as the BBC and Channel 4. The sale of Hollywood at MTV and Telepictures. In 1979, 30-year-old Rick Ray (then a Shine to News Corp. could indicate that Alex is now TLG’s senior VP and she is a possible successor to Rupert. Liz TV station program manager) and his wife Dee, founded Raycom Sports, a collegiate heads up the Brand to Hollywood is also known for her endurance, as she’s division, one of TLG’s eight willing to seclude herself in screening sports production and distribution company in Charlotte, North Carolina. In operating areas employing 40 full-time rooms for hours scrutinizing every show communications executives in the Los she produced or acquired. If personality- 1996, Raycom Sports merged with Ellis Communications, becoming the basis Angeles headquarters and offices in wise father and daughter are said to be New York City and London. of similar temperament, they are on the for Raycom Media, now the 12th largest opposite spectrum as far as politics are media company in the U.S., operating 45 Rupert and Elisabeth (Liz) TV stations in 36 U.S. markets. CARLOS, MARIA AND Murdoch concerned, with Rupert on the extreme right and Liz on the far left. After leaving Raycom in 1998, Rick CAROLINE BARBA The 80-year-old Melbourne, pursued a number of investments If Cuban-born Carlos had a TV set as a Australia-born Rupert Murdoch is the SUMNER AND SHARI REDSTONE including Action Performance, which toy in the crib, his daughter Caroline was founder and chairman of News Corp. controls 80 percent of all merchandising literally born in a TV studio. That was Sumner Redstone, 87, is a majority in 1972, when her 37-year-old father was Elisabeth (Liz), born in 1968 in Sydney, owner and chairman of the board for NASCAR-related products. In Australia, is his second oldest offspring, addition, he’s involved in producing in New Jersey running WNJU-TV for of the National Amusements theater Columbia Pictures, which later became out of six children (from three wives). chain, which is the parent company of long-form cable television programs and has acquired feature film assets. the flagship TV station of the Spanish- Rupert Murdoch moved to New York Viacom and CBS Corporation, among language network, Telemundo. At that in 1974 and became a U.S. citizen in 1985. others. His father Michael founded In 2010 Rick joined Miami, Florida- time, Carlos’ seven-year-old Maria was By 2010 he controlled 750 businesses Northeast Theater Corporation, the based NewsProNet’s advisory board, already sitting in her father’s office in 50 countries and amassed a personal forerunner of National Amusements, although he lives in Hilton Head Island, making commercials for the station. fortune estimated at $6.3 billion. which currently runs more than 950 South Carolina. Later on, after graduating from movie screens in the U.S., the U.K. and Liz attended Brearley School in New NewsProNet (NPN) is a digital short- American University in Washington D.C. Latin America. York City and, after graduating from form production and distribution company in 1997, Maria went to work for her father, Vassar College in 1992, she became Sumner joined his father’s theater founded in 1997 by Susan Krivelow and then at Univision. She followed Carlos manager of Program Acquisitions at her chain in 1954, and in 1967, at 44, he Kent Krizik and today owned by its acting in 1991 when he became president of father’s FX Network in Los Angeles. became president and CEO of National chairman, Bob Rodriguez. Venevision International, in Miami as head The Murdoch family left New York for Amusements. Rick’s 23-year-old daughter, Deanna of Marketing and Public Relations. When, Beverly Hills, CA in 1991. Through National Amusements, he (the third oldest of four children), is the in 1999 Carlos founded UnoDosTres, one In 1995 Liz moved with her first invested in Columbia Pictures, Twentieth only one joining her father in the media of the first Internet TV companies, Maria husband to London, U.K., as managing Century Fox, Orion Pictures and industry when, in 2010, she became joined her father as promotion manager. director of BSkyB. She’s now a citizen Paramount Pictures. In 1987, Sumner won an account executive for the domestic Caroline, on the other hand, was of both the U.S. and Britain. voting control of Viacom, and in 1993, division at NewsProNet. She graduated more interested in working as an artist

(Continued on Page 42) 40 VIDEO • AGE A PRIL 2 0 1 1 Marina began taking an interest in languages, Matilde lamented her lack of chairman and a member of the board. Fininvest in 1991, at the age of 25. early foreign language training. JR Shaw also founded Corus Father & She started college (studying law and Matilde Bernabei started as a Entertainment. The company was built Daughter political science) but never graduated, journalist for the weekly newsmagazine from the media assets originally owned commenting that attending her father’s Panorama, and, at the age of 24, she by Shaw Communications, and spun off Teams business meetings was more educational was appointed secretary general of as a separate, publicly-traded company than college. In an interview, Marina ASIP, in charge of the creation of in 1999. Today, Corus owns 50 radio acknowledged, “I’m here because my technical cooperation programs with stations, several speciality TV channels (Continued from Page 40) name is Berlusconi, but as a Berlusconi I developing countries. In 1980 she joined and production and distribution could also be doing something else.” Montedison as manager of the group’s companies such as Nelvana, generating (her father started as an actor), so in Marina is considered her father’s job creation program. In 1984, she annual revenues of C$769 million. JR 1999 Carlos helped her to be cast in a closest ally both in business and in the became the Strategy and Development remains Corus’ primary shareholder telenovela for Univision, which launched political arena where Silvio reportedly director of the Montedison’s newly through Corus’ class A voting shares, her acting career in Hollywood. When wants her to succeed him as Prime created Iniziativa Me.Ta., which in the majority of which he holds. Carlos became president of Spanish- Minister and party leader. three years became the third largest Since Corus’ inception, Heather language TV network CaribeVision in Italian financial holding. Before joining According to several news accounts, Shaw, now 51, has been the company’s 2007, he gave Caroline a job hosting for her father at LUX Vide, in 1987 she in 1998 Marina strongly objected to the executive chairman. Previously, she was a half-hour entertainment show. became managing director of the potential sale of Mediaset to Rupert president of Shaw Advertising Services publishing company Il Messaggero. On April 23, 2011 Carlos Barba will Murdoch (who owns Sky Italia in Italy and, in 1995, president of Shaw’s Digital receive an award in New York City and is now considered Mediaset’s major Today, at LUX Vide, Matilde is assisted Music Express Canada Ltd. and an from the Association of Entertainment competitor). by her youngest brother Luca, who is the officer and member of the board of Critics, for his 50 years in the television head of Production. Ettore is now LUX Shaw Communications. Since 2008, Forbes listed Marina as the 48th most business. Vide’s honorary chairman, while his Heather’s younger sister, Julie, now 49, powerful woman in the world (on the daughter Matilde is chairman. has served as vice chairman. She first same level as the U.S. First Lady Michelle SILVIO AND MARIA ELVIRA joined the Shaw group in 1986. Obama), controlling a financial empire Over the years LUX Vide has produced (MARINA) BERLUSCONI worth an estimated $10 billion. some 80 programs (about 500 hours) In 2001, Heather Shaw was listed in The between series, miniseries and TV movies, Financial Post’s “Power 50” — the 50 most Marina has two children and is but it doesn’t have its own distribution powerful women in Canadian business. married to a former first dancer of La operation, relying instead on RAI. Scala. Her father, on the other hand, OLA AND BENEDICTE STEINSRUD after two marriages, is single. With 44.3 percent ownership, LUX Vide is still solidly in the Bernabei When, at the age of 38, Ola Steinsrud family’s hands, while 35.7 percent is ETTORE AND MATILDE BERNABEI co-founded TVNorge, Norway’s first owned by International Entertainment, private TV station with three other a subsidiary of Intesa Bank, with the people, in 1987, his daughter Benedicte balance owned by Tarak Ben Ammar. was four years old. A year later, when the station actually went on the air, the JAMES ROBERT (JR) AND little girl was often asked by her father HEATHER A. SHAW to appear whenever needed on shows or music videos that he produced. As a teenager Benedicte was asked by her Silvio and Maria Elvira (Marina) Berlusconi dad to sit in the conference room to watch programs and give feedback. Silvio Berlusconi is a 75-year-old Italian broadcaster-turned politician Subsequently, in 1996 the station was who’s the largest shareholder (38.62 sold to SBS and now is wholly owned by percent) of publicly traded multimedia ProSiebenSat1. Ola stayed with TVNorge until 2006 and Benedicte, his oldest child group Mediaset, which, in turn, owns Ettore and Matilde Bernabei TV networks in Italy and Spain, and (he has three daughters), joined the network also controls Endemol. a year later, after attending the American Ettore Bernabei founded Rome, Italy- School outside London, graduating Berlusconi is the majority owner of based LUX Vide, the largest producer of with a degree in Journalism, Film and Mediaset through his family’s investment fiction programs in Italy, in 1991 with the Heather and JR Shaw Broadcasting and moving to Los Angeles group, Fininvest Holding, which is chaired help of three financial investors. At that to work for distribution company GRB. by his Milan-born 45-year-old daughter, time Bernabei was 70 years old. He had Today, she’s in the acquisition department Maria Elvira (Marina). Marina is also James Robert (JR) Shaw, 77, executive stepped down as president of RAI, Italy’s chairman of Shaw Communications, for TVNorge’s FEM and MAX. chairman of the Mondadori Publishing state broadcaster, 17 years earlier after entered the TV business in 1970 to Ola began as a Communications Group, which is owned by Fininvest, and occupying the position for 13 years. provide cable TV service to Edmonton. Engineer graduate in Oslo in 1973. Mediaset’s board member. In addition, In 1983 the company went public and, in After working for the nation’s telecom in the entertainment sector, Fininvest To veterans of the Italian political 1995, was renamed Shaw Cablesystems company, he moved to New York City owns Medusa, a film production and and media worlds, the name Bernabei and moved to Calgary. In the same period at the entertainment division at ABC distribution company. opens doors. In addition to having been a former editor of daily newspapers and he legally changed his name to JR. TV network in 1987. He later became a Berlusconi, who’s now worth U.S.$9 a political force in the long-ruling (but Today, Shaw Communications programming and acquisition executive billion, founded Fininvest in 1978 and, in now discredited) Christian Democrat is a C$3.7 billion a year group that for the network. 1996 placed all his film and TV properties party, he is a Vatican insider. provides telephone, Internet and Before going to New York, Ola went in the Mediaset Group as a public company television services. Last October Shaw to Surrey, outside London, to take a traded on the Milan Stock Exchange, now In 1992 he urged his then 38-year-old daughter Matilde to join him as CEO, a acquired Canwest, a major Canadian production course sponsored by Sony worth an estimated $9 billion with annual broadcasting radio and TV company and the BBC. revenues of $4 billion. surprising move since she thought her father would prefer one of his other based in Winnipeg and reorganized it Ola brought the U.S. business model After working with her father in seven living children (one daughter was under a division called Shaw Media. to TVNorge. Originally TVNorge several capacities, Marina (who is the deceased). In a 1997 VideoAge interview, All of JR’s four children — Jim, broadcast via satellite and cable, later oldest of Silvio’s five children) became Matilde complained that, when she was Heather, Julie and Brad — are involved they had some local affiliates which were vice-chairman of Fininvest in 1996, growing up, “It was understood that her in the group. His oldest son Jim, now using 5:30 p.m.-6:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.- in 2003 was appointed chairman of five brothers would go out and work and 53, took over Shaw as CEO in 1998, 8:30 p.m. for local programming, while Mondadori and, in 2005, chairman of she and her sisters would get married however, last November, Jim’s younger the rest of the schedule was provided Fininvest. and stay at home.” While the boys were brother Brad, 46, became CEO, while by TVNorge. This arrangement ended According to semi-official documents, encouraged to become fluent in several Jim continues as non-executive vice in 2009 with the analog switch off.

42 VIDEO • AGE A PRIL 2 0 1 1 Marina began taking an interest in languages, Matilde lamented her lack of chairman and a member of the board. Fininvest in 1991, at the age of 25. early foreign language training. JR Shaw also founded Corus Father & She started college (studying law and Matilde Bernabei started as a Entertainment. The company was built Daughter political science) but never graduated, journalist for the weekly newsmagazine from the media assets originally owned commenting that attending her father’s Panorama, and, at the age of 24, she by Shaw Communications, and spun off Teams business meetings was more educational was appointed secretary general of as a separate, publicly-traded company You could come than college. In an interview, Marina ASIP, in charge of the creation of in 1999. Today, Corus owns 50 radio acknowledged, “I’m here because my technical cooperation programs with stations, several speciality TV channels (Continued from Page 40) name is Berlusconi, but as a Berlusconi I developing countries. In 1980 she joined and production and distribution could also be doing something else.” Montedison as manager of the group’s companies such as Nelvana, generating (her father started as an actor), so in Marina is considered her father’s job creation program. In 1984, she annual revenues of C$769 million. JR because this is the 1999 Carlos helped her to be cast in a closest ally both in business and in the became the Strategy and Development remains Corus’ primary shareholder telenovela for Univision, which launched political arena where Silvio reportedly director of the Montedison’s newly through Corus’ class A voting shares, her acting career in Hollywood. When wants her to succeed him as Prime created Iniziativa Me.Ta., which in the majority of which he holds. Carlos became president of Spanish- Minister and party leader. three years became the third largest Since Corus’ inception, Heather language TV network CaribeVision in Italian financial holding. Before joining world’s fastest According to several news accounts, Shaw, now 51, has been the company’s 2007, he gave Caroline a job hosting for her father at LUX Vide, in 1987 she in 1998 Marina strongly objected to the executive chairman. Previously, she was a half-hour entertainment show. became managing director of the potential sale of Mediaset to Rupert president of Shaw Advertising Services publishing company Il Messaggero. On April 23, 2011 Carlos Barba will Murdoch (who owns Sky Italia in Italy and, in 1995, president of Shaw’s Digital receive an award in New York City and is now considered Mediaset’s major Today, at LUX Vide, Matilde is assisted Music Express Canada Ltd. and an growing market. from the Association of Entertainment competitor). by her youngest brother Luca, who is the officer and member of the board of Critics, for his 50 years in the television head of Production. Ettore is now LUX Shaw Communications. Since 2008, Forbes listed Marina as the 48th most business. Vide’s honorary chairman, while his Heather’s younger sister, Julie, now 49, powerful woman in the world (on the daughter Matilde is chairman. has served as vice chairman. She first same level as the U.S. First Lady Michelle SILVIO AND MARIA ELVIRA joined the Shaw group in 1986. Obama), controlling a financial empire Over the years LUX Vide has produced (MARINA) BERLUSCONI worth an estimated $10 billion. some 80 programs (about 500 hours) In 2001, Heather Shaw was listed in The Action is here! between series, miniseries and TV movies, Financial Post’s “Power 50” — the 50 most Marina has two children and is but it doesn’t have its own distribution powerful women in Canadian business. married to a former first dancer of La operation, relying instead on RAI. Come to Brazil and find out all about the opportunities for buyers, Scala. Her father, on the other hand, OLA AND BENEDICTE STEINSRUD after two marriages, is single. With 44.3 percent ownership, LUX producers and distributors at the world’s fastest growing market. Vide is still solidly in the Bernabei When, at the age of 38, Ola Steinsrud family’s hands, while 35.7 percent is ETTORE AND MATILDE BERNABEI co-founded TVNorge, Norway’s first owned by International Entertainment, private TV station with three other a subsidiary of Intesa Bank, with the people, in 1987, his daughter Benedicte balance owned by Tarak Ben Ammar. was four years old. A year later, when the station actually went on the air, the JAMES ROBERT (JR) AND little girl was often asked by her father HEATHER A. SHAW to appear whenever needed on shows or music videos that he produced. As a teenager Benedicte was asked by her Silvio and Maria Elvira (Marina) Berlusconi dad to sit in the conference room to watch programs and give feedback. Silvio Berlusconi is a 75-year-old Italian broadcaster-turned politician Subsequently, in 1996 the station was who’s the largest shareholder (38.62 sold to SBS and now is wholly owned by percent) of publicly traded multimedia ProSiebenSat1. Ola stayed with TVNorge until 2006 and Benedicte, his oldest child group Mediaset, which, in turn, owns Ettore and Matilde Bernabei TV networks in Italy and Spain, and (he has three daughters), joined the network also controls Endemol. a year later, after attending the American Or just for the drinks. Ettore Bernabei founded Rome, Italy- School outside London, graduating Berlusconi is the majority owner of based LUX Vide, the largest producer of with a degree in Journalism, Film and Mediaset through his family’s investment fiction programs in Italy, in 1991 with the Heather and JR Shaw Broadcasting and moving to Los Angeles group, Fininvest Holding, which is chaired help of three financial investors. At that to work for distribution company GRB. by his Milan-born 45-year-old daughter, time Bernabei was 70 years old. He had Today, she’s in the acquisition department Maria Elvira (Marina). Marina is also James Robert (JR) Shaw, 77, executive stepped down as president of RAI, Italy’s chairman of Shaw Communications, for TVNorge’s FEM and MAX. chairman of the Mondadori Publishing state broadcaster, 17 years earlier after entered the TV business in 1970 to Ola began as a Communications Group, which is owned by Fininvest, and occupying the position for 13 years. provide cable TV service to Edmonton. Engineer graduate in Oslo in 1973. Mediaset’s board member. In addition, In 1983 the company went public and, in After working for the nation’s telecom in the entertainment sector, Fininvest To veterans of the Italian political 1995, was renamed Shaw Cablesystems company, he moved to New York City owns Medusa, a film production and and media worlds, the name Bernabei and moved to Calgary. In the same period at the entertainment division at ABC distribution company. opens doors. In addition to having been a former editor of daily newspapers and he legally changed his name to JR. TV network in 1987. He later became a Berlusconi, who’s now worth U.S.$9 a political force in the long-ruling (but Today, Shaw Communications programming and acquisition executive billion, founded Fininvest in 1978 and, in now discredited) Christian Democrat is a C$3.7 billion a year group that for the network. 1996 placed all his film and TV properties party, he is a Vatican insider. provides telephone, Internet and Before going to New York, Ola went in the Mediaset Group as a public company television services. Last October Shaw to Surrey, outside London, to take a traded on the Milan Stock Exchange, now In 1992 he urged his then 38-year-old daughter Matilde to join him as CEO, a acquired Canwest, a major Canadian production course sponsored by Sony worth an estimated $9 billion with annual broadcasting radio and TV company and the BBC. revenues of $4 billion. surprising move since she thought her father would prefer one of his other based in Winnipeg and reorganized it Ola brought the U.S. business model After working with her father in seven living children (one daughter was under a division called Shaw Media. to TVNorge. Originally TVNorge several capacities, Marina (who is the deceased). In a 1997 VideoAge interview, All of JR’s four children — Jim, broadcast via satellite and cable, later oldest of Silvio’s five children) became Matilde complained that, when she was Heather, Julie and Brad — are involved they had some local affiliates which were june, 15-16, 2011 São Paulo, SP - brazil vice-chairman of Fininvest in 1996, growing up, “It was understood that her in the group. His oldest son Jim, now using 5:30 p.m.-6:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.- in 2003 was appointed chairman of five brothers would go out and work and 53, took over Shaw as CEO in 1998, 8:30 p.m. for local programming, while Mondadori and, in 2005, chairman of she and her sisters would get married however, last November, Jim’s younger the rest of the schedule was provided Fininvest. and stay at home.” While the boys were brother Brad, 46, became CEO, while by TVNorge. 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