Sports in All Television Forms Is Going Through a Change
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THE BUSINESS JOURNAL OF FILM, BROADCASTING, BROADBAND, PRODUCTION, DISTRIBUTION April 2016 - VOL. 36 NO. 3 - $9.75 INTERNAT IONAL www.VideoAge.org MIP-TV Preview: Sports in All Television Forms European Fiction Business talk wins is Going Through A Change Is Becoming An over floor business $50 Billion Worth of Change American Drama Page 12 Reiner Moritz into the ports on television is big business worldwide. It has Int’l TV Distribution Sthe most complex license fee Hall of Fame structure of all TV content. Sports TV licensing is going through a structural Page 20 change because of the second screen. And sports is considered the lifeline for FTA. For this reason, sports Italian TV after Netflix leagues are leveraging this strength by increasing license fees. For example, he international television is more of the same in Italy the Serie A football league’s “Well, all the balls are in our court!” business was founded on traditional TV annual budget of 2.4 billion euro is 54 Tthe sale of U.S. dramas — Page 28 percent covered by TV rights. sports and the Winter 15 (some of initially feature films, but primetime them with multiple disciplines). The figures attached to this TV drama quickly followed. So, it form of programming are mind- Yet, there are just 10 top sports on is no surprise that, from the very My2¢: Pity buyers who boggling. According to the World TV: Football (soccer) with 3.5 billion early days, U.S. series dominated Sports Encyclopedia, around the followers, cricket (2.5 billion), field have split personalities world there are 3,000 sports, but hockey (2 billion), tennis (1 billion), international TV drama sales. But as a job requirement the Summer Olympics have only 28 volleyball (900 million), table tennis that is no longer the case — new Page 38 (Continued on Page 32) (Continued on Page 34) Formats: Unloved By The Law, Loved By Viewers t is, perhaps, a revealing testament to the true nature Iof the television business that, despite the refusal of courts on either side of the Atlantic and Pacific to recognize their existence in matters of legal protection — formats have become one of the biggest and fastest growing industry sectors. So, why is the format so loved and what makes a great format? 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Page 38 VIDEOAGE World April 2016 VideoAge is Site For CBS’s The Good Wife Gershman’s ast January, Eye Productions, a division of CBS, chose the offices of VideoAge Soul Revealed in New York City to film three segments of one of the last episodes of the long- Lrunning show The Good Wife. in New Book It was episode 16 of the seventh and final season. The series, which premiered in 2009 on the CBS TV Network, will have accumulated 156 episodes when the final episode airs. In the U.S., the series averages 12.5 million viewers per week. Even though The Good Wife is set in Chicago, the interiors are filmed at Broadway Stages in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, and the exteriors around the New York City metro area. This is not the first time a production company has chosen VideoAge’s offices. Last March, Broadway Video, the production company of NBC’s Saturday Night Live, approached VideoAge for an episode starring Michael Keaton. At that time, the offices were buzzing with MIP-TV preparations and could not be shared. To film five-minute airtime starring Stockard Channing and Jeffrey Dean Morgan (pictured above), Eye Productions dispatched a crew of 100 people, four 4K cameras and redesigned the interiors to look like an apartment. Usually, it takes seven days to prepare an episode and eight days to shoot. After an episode is completed, it will air in 28 days. The final episode of The Good Wife series will air in the U.S. on May 8 at 9 p.m. (Eastern Standard Time) eteran U.S. TV executive Larry Gershman has Vpublished his memoirs: a voluminous book of 424 pages titled A Kid From Brooklyn: Lessons Learned (Amazon U.S.$9.99 for the Kindle version, $14.99 for the printed version). The book is divided into 136 vignettes in chronological order. It is all about Gershman and his various career moves, from NTA to CBS, from NBC to Don King Productions, from Viacom to MGM/UA, and finally to the creation of WIN: World International Network. In between pages the reader can spot a few gems: Gershman describes how Italy’s Silvio Berlusconi’s “financial executive, Carlo Bernasconi,” asked him for a bribe, on page 308. Then, on page 314: “Ted Turner is a nut job, but one of the most honorable and loyal men I have ever met.” Each vignette ends with a “Lesson Learned” explanation. This latter aspect makes the title of the book unique (there are at least five other books with “Kid From Brooklyn” titles, in addition to a 1986 movie and various newspaper headlines, like the New York Times’ recent “The Boy From Brooklyn,” about David Geffen). Gershman’s book also contains 12 pages of photos of himself with TV and religious leaders (including shaking hands with Pope John Paul II). Unfortunately, these pages were not accounted for while numbering the subsequent vignettes. After page 197, each vignette is indicated with a wrong number on the table of contents page (e.g., the vignette on Berlusconi is indicated for page 207 when it is actually on page 210). (Continued on Page 6) 4 VIDEOAGE April 2016 SEE US AT MIPTV P.C VIDEOAGE World April 2016 (Continued from Page 4) RAI’s Prix Italia Has a New Secretary General Super Bowl Show: Myth, ittorio Argento has replaced RAI veteran Paolo Morawski as Prix Italia’s Secretary General.