BUSINESS JOURNAL OF FILM, BROADCASTING, BROADBAND, PRODUCTION, DISTRIBUTION MARCH/APRIL 2013 - VOL. 33 NO. 2 - $9.75 INTERNAT IONAL www.VideoAge.org Book Review: Despite Riches, Quality MIP-TV at 50: FOX News. What you already suspect is on Channels Hitting Snags Remembering page 10 By Dom Serafini Good Ole Days he successful business model created by cable and satellite L.A. Screenings: Tchannels is bringing the companies that own them billions of Sneak preview of hot dollars in profit and a large catalog new U.S. TV season of high-quality programs. page 18 Actually, what drives the financial growth of these channels is the quality of the shows which the channels leverage in order to get more money Canada’s docs take per subscriber from providers. 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(Continued on Page 22) BUSINESS JOURNAL OF FILM, BROADCASTING, BROADBAND, PRODUCTION, DISTRIBUTION MARCH/APRIL 2013 - VOL. 33 NO. 2 - $9.75 INTERNAT IONAL www.VideoAge.org Book Review: Despite Riches, Quality MIP-TV at 50: FOX News. What you already suspect is on Channels Hitting Snags Remembering page 10 By Dom Serafini Good Ole Days he successful business model created by cable and satellite L.A. Screenings: Tchannels is bringing the companies that own them billions of Sneak preview of hot dollars in profit and a large catalog new U.S. TV season of high-quality programs. page 18 Actually, what drives the financial growth of these channels is the quality of the shows which the channels leverage in order to get more money Canada’s docs take per subscriber from providers. And Photo Caption flight at Toronto’s yet, this El Dorado could represent “Gosh, this is really hell!” the tip of the bell curve, marking o celebrate MIP-TV’s 50th Bloor the beginning of the end of the same no longer even contemplated, the four anniversary, VideoAge (present page 24 model that created it. Curiously, Horsemen of the Apocalypse are: Tat the market since 1982) called while this drama unfolds, companies * Cord-nevers: Young people who on a few former — and some current are flooding the markets with even don’t subscribe to a cable or satellite — TV executives who led the industry My 2¢: Pinky-ring, puff more new channels, especially sports TV service when they move out of during its “golden era.” Distributors channels, like Clint Eastwood’s their parents’ house. If they want fold, collar pin-wearing Back9Network golf lifestyle channel. to watch a particular show, they and buyers alike recall what MIP-TV syndicators For the TV provider sector, churn is stream or download it. was like in those early years. page 42 (Continued on Page 26) (Continued on Page 34) Second Screen to the Rescue consumerlab TV AND VIDEO An analysis of evolving consumer habits owadays, traditional linear television is battling Nfragmentation, disruption, reduced revenues, legal, technological An Ericsson Consumer Insight Summary Report andAugust 2012 regulatory challenges and increased costs. But have no fear, what technology taketh, technology giveth. If new technology spearheaded a plethora of problems for the TV screen, new technology is now coming to the rescue with a second screen. As 2nd Screen Society’s Chuck Parker explained, traditional television could recapture viewers’ attention by engaging them through a second screen, be it a smartphone, a tablet or laptop. 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In 1987 it was purchased by Reed Elsevier. Penske Media Corporation (PMC) — which owns publications/blogs like BGR, Deadline, Hollywood Life, HollyBaby, ENTV, MovieLine, TVLine, and OnCars — acquired Variety from Reed Elsevier in 2012 for a reported $25 million, but it was maintained as a separate profit center outside PMC. Financing was provided by Third Point, a hedge fund founded by investor Daniel S. Loeb. Tereza Polachová (executive producer), Antony Root (executive producer and HBO EVP), Ondrej Zach (SVP of Programming) resented in Prague, Czech Republic, at the end of PJanuary, Burning Bush is the first major local production of HBO Europe. It is a three- part miniseries created for HBO by Polish director Agnieszka Holland that reconstructs the story that has left a deep mark on the Czechoslovak society and, more broadly, in all the countries of Eastern Europe. Burning Bush focuses on the personal sacrifice of Prague history student Jan Palach who in September 1969 set himself on fire in protest against the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia (the so-called “Prague Spring”). Dagmar Burešová, a young female lawyer (played by Tatiana Pauhofová, shown below), became part of his legacy by defending Palach’s family in a trial against the communist government. “To open a line of large-scale production in Europe, we chose a story with universal values ​​of truth, humanity, honor, justice and courage,” said Antony Root, executive vice president of HBO Europe, during a preview presentation to 167 journalists from many Western and Eastern European countries. The Burning Bush press conference took place at Prague’s Lucerna Kino, followed a few days later by the Premier Gala Event, held at Prague’s Slovansky dum and then a reception at Obecni dum.