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Lucas Banjiro Uemura & Tetsu Uemura Ads CS6 270x360.indd 4 5/14/15 9:26 AM May 2015 My 2¢ After so many years in this business, I’ve come to the realization that I still don’t know much. And it’s not that I like to parrot Aristotle (“The more you know, the more you know you don’t know”), but rather, this is a cry for help to those who cannot help. started VideoAge in 1981, so by now, after 35 years, its way into my articles, not remembering No one would think that I should know something about where the information lingering in my one is Ithe television business. The reality is that I don’t know memory came from. volunteering to nothing. I realize that it would have been “more” better to If that sensitive information had teach me and I cannot say “anything,” but the “ungrammatical” “nothing” tends to gotten out without clearly having been even depend on retired emphasize my ignorance about this business. part of an interview, not only would it executives because what The fault for this “acquired” ignorance is purely mine, have been wrong and unethical, but they know changed because years ago I could have learned the ins and outs I would also have lost the trust and of television program distribution, but instead I refused so many times that confidence of those great executives. in order to honor this ephemeral thing called journalistic even they are now integrity. This attitude, however, rendered me at a loss. Let’s face it, I (supposedly) knowledgably write totally ignorant of the real issues and about content distribution, production, broadcasting, concerns, and today I long to know, for advertising, cablecasting, broadband, technology, research, example, what goes on during the so-called consultancy… and yet I’ve never been a broadcaster, a “deal night” when Canadian buyers snap-up distributor, an ad agent or the rights of the any of the above. One could series for the say that years ago I dabbled in new U.S. TV MAIN OFFICES radio consultancy in Italy when 216 EAST 75TH STREET season. NEW YORK, NY 10021 private radio stations started to And what about TEL: (212) 288-3933 emerge there. Armed with my FAX: (212) 288-3424 negotiating for an output deal FCC third class license (which WWW.VIDEOAGE.ORG or a volume deal when movies WWW.VIDEOAGELATINO.COM then required a very elaborate WWW.VIDEOAGE.IT and difficult U.S. federal test) can no longer be a driving force for FTA negotiations? P.O. BOX 25282 I thought I could teach Italian LOS ANGELES, CA 90025 radio stations what I had And how can one separate VIALE ABRUZZI 30 learned from my job at several broadcast/cablecast/SVoD 20123 MILAN, ITALY radio stations in the U.S. deals from digital rights to be EDITOR (WLIX, WBAB and WSUF). sold to outlets such as Netflix DOM SERAFINI My opportunity to learn about and/or Amazon? ASSISTANT EDITOR SARA ALESSI television program distribution It is frustrating for me, (and all its intricacies, like EDITORIAL CONTRIBUTORS “And this is my husband, he doesn’t after so many years in this negotiations, pricing, rights, SHERIF AWAD (MIDDLE EAST) know much about television.” business, to be confused by ISME BENNIE (CANADA) number of runs and windows) rights management services’ ENZO CHIARULLO (ITALY) came years ago when studio LUCY COHEN BLATTER explanations or to be unclear executives such as Bruce Gordon (Paramount), Colin Davis CARLOS GUROVICH about material delivery and/or refusal issues, the minutiae LEAH HOCHBAUM ROSNER (MCA, now NBCUniversal), Bill Saunders (21st Century of contracts and payment schedules. SUSAN HORNIK (L.A.) Fox), Michael J. Solomon (Warner Bros.), Larry Gershman BOB JENKINS (U.K.) (MGM) and others would casually take me to lunch or Unfortunately, now that I’m finally willing to learn, no AKIKO KOBAYACHI (JAPAN) DAVID SHORT (AFRICA) dinner meetings or simply invite me to sit at their lobby bar one is volunteering to teach me and I cannot even depend MARIA ZUPPELLO (BRAZIL) tables during off hours at markets such as Monte-Carlo with on retired executives because what they know changed so PUBLISHER their buyers and, inevitably, I would excuse myself as soon many times that even they are now at a loss. MONICA GORGHETTO as they started to talk about money. And that’s where the expression “the good ol’ days” came BUSINESS OFFICE LEN FINKEL My concern was that if I had listened to the negotiations, from. some of the information could inadvertently have found LEGAL OFFICE Dom Serafini ROBERT ACKERMANN, STEVE SCHIFFMAN WEB MANAGER MIKE FAIVRE DESIGN/LAYOUT CARMINE RASPAOLO ILLUSTRATIONS BOB SHOCHET 5 aaaMay_2015_Issue2_Final.indd 3 5/8/15 1:24 PM World May 2015 Gordon Looking to WIN Australia’s TEN TV Network Italy’s TV Exports Face ruce Gordon, owner of Australia’s WIN TV network, is trying to prevent the Discovery-Foxtel joint A$590 million bid to buy the country’s third-ranked FTA TEN TV network. Misguided B Foxtel is 50 percent owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. Gordon owns 14.9 percent of TEN and by law he cannot exceed that. In order to be “Solutions” prepared in the event that the cross-media ownership and “reach rule” law changes, Gordon proposed to inject between A$70 million and A$100 million in the form of notes in n an interview for exchange for two seats on the TEN board. the MIP-TV edition The notes would convert into equity in TEN if the “reach rule” is rescinded. The rule states Iof Cinema&Video, the that no single entity can control a network that covers more than 75 percent of the nation. president of Italy’s Television Gordon’s association with TEN began in mid-1960 when he started to buy their stock as Producers Association (APT) a family investment. Marco Follini cited a Rossellini If Gordon were to gain the two board seats, he’d have more power than current board Foundation study reporting that members Lachlan Murdoch of News Corp. (with a nine percent ownership), Crown Resorts’ James Packer (nine percent) and Gina Rinehart (9.7 percent). since 2006, Italian TV program exports declined by 58 percent. According to Follini, the solution lies in “breaking that ritual repetitiveness that sometimes characterizes part of the [Italian] production.” Some observers indicated that the problem is not with Italian content, but the fact that the Italian subsidy- based production system WORKS doesn’t include promotion, and producers, satisfied DESCRIPTIVE VIDEO WORKS with their domestic revenue, aren’t inclined to bother with international sales. In the interview, Follini touched on the subject of the on-and-off APT organized RomaFictionFest, which !!!!'!! this year might move from September to June, so as "( !!$$ " “not to overlap with other international TV trade events,” he said. In this instance, it was pointed out that June is the $!% % busiest month for TV events with 20 key trade shows in 10 & countries, including NATPE Europe, Licensing Expo and Monte-Carlo TV Fest. The total number of days in June that play host to a TV trade show amounts to 58. 1 866 818 3897 6 aaaMay_2015_Issue2_Final.indd 1 5/8/15 1:31 PM 0377D. reserved. rights All LLC. 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