Buyers Briefing

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What Buyers Want: Yolisa Phahle, CEO of Showmax & Connected Video, MultiChoice Group

With a flurry of markets, conferences & co-production-focused events taking place this month, Mark Layton…

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What Buyers Want: Keshet 12’s Ilanit St Hirsch, head of programmes & acquisitions

With a flurry of markets, conferences & co-production-focused events taking place this month, Mark Layton…

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Sony Pictures Television launches online format festival

Sony Pictures Television (SPT) has unveiled plans to host its own bespoke virtual formats event…

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Buyers Briefing: Indonesia

Indonesian content is under the spotlight at this year’s Asia TV Forum & Market. TBI…

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NATPE Europe Buyers Briefing: Kai Gahler

Name: Kai Gahler Title: acquisitions executive, Kanal 2, Estonia TBI: What channels do you buy…

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Buyers briefing: Paul Edwards, Discovery

Name: Paul Edwards Title: VP, head of Nordic Discovery channels, Discovery Networks Northern Europe Paul…

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Buyers briefing: Jon Farrar, BBC Worldwide

Name: Jon Farrar Title: Senior VP, global programming and acquisitions Jon Farrar oversees the programming…

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Buyers Briefing: Nesta Owens, Discovery

Name: Nesta Owens Title: Programming director, Discovery Networks CEEMEA Nesta Owens oversees buying for Discovery…

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Buyers Briefing: Jeff Ford, Fox / FIC UK

Name: Jeff Ford Title: managing director, Fox International Channels UK Industry veteran Jeff Ford joined…

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Helen Cowley, Amazon Prime Instant Video UK

Name: Helen Cowley Title: senior manager, Amazon Prime Instant Video UK Helen Cowley has been…

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Taking stock of SVOD

Buying a share in Netflix at the turn of 2011 would have set you back…

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CBBC: report card, recent hits, shopping lists

CBeebies controller Kay Benbow and her CBBC counterpart Cheryl Taylor took the stage at the…

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CBeebies: report card, recent hits, shopping lists

CBeebies controller Kay Benbow and her CBBC counterpart Cheryl Taylor took the stage at the…

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Celestial Tiger pounces on Chinese kids opportunity

Celestial Tiger Entertainment announced its entry into a very crowded space last month when it…

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Buyer’s briefing: BBC Worldwide Channels

Julie Swanston is VP, commissioning for BBC Worldwide Channels. She will commission a minimum of…

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Amazon deal monitor: Prime’s time

Amazon’s initial slate of originals was mostly well received, but failed to set the TV…

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Buyer’s briefing: Mike Cosentino, Crave TV

Name: Mike Cosentino Title: Senior VP, programming, CTV Networks and CraveTV; chair, Bell Media Programming…

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Buyers Briefing: Gail Gendler, AMC/Sundance Channel

Name: Gail Gendler Title: VP, acquisitions, AMC/Sundance Channel Global Gail Gendler oversees acquisitions for AMC…

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Buyers Briefing: Christian Drobnyk, Lifetime

Name: Christian Drobnyk Title: Senior VP, programming, strategy and acquisitions, Lifetime, A+E Networks Christian Drobnyk…

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Buyers Briefing: Vanda Rapti, MTG

Name: Vanda Rapti Title: VP of acquisitions, pay TV, VOD and new media, and acting…

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Endemol Shine Group: the story so far

The enormous distribution group created by the merger of Endemol, Shine Group and Core Media…

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Pitching over the pond: a UK perspective on US TV

British producer Nerd TV’s co-founder and managing director Jago Lee on why American-style processes are…

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Buyers Briefing: Jules Borkent, Nickelodeon

Name: Jules Borkent Title: senior VP, global acquisitions and international programming, Nickelodeon, Viacom International Media…

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XiveTV: at the factual frontier

John Hendricks will not have the factual streaming space to himself with CuriosityStream, with industry…

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Buyers Briefing: Steve Regan, MTV UK

Name: Steve Regan Title: VP of commissioning and production, MTV UK & International Steve Regan…

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Guilty pleasures

Murder. Bloodlust. Revenge. Jesse Whittock listens to testimony from leading executives and gathers evidence to…

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Buyers Briefing: Steve Schiffman, Justice Network

Name: Steve Schiffman Role: CEO Former National Geographic Channel chief Steve Schiffman leads the latest…

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Discovery seeks third-party Spanish content for distribution

Discovery Communications’s programme sales team is ramping up efforts to acquire Spanish-language content that it can…

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Buyers briefing: Angela Recio Sondon, Discovery

Name: Angela Recio Sondon Title: VP, programming and acquisitions, Discovery Networks Latin America/US Hispanic Ahead…

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Buyers Briefing: Devi Noviana, RCTI (Indonesia)

Name: Devi Noviana Title: head of international acquisitions Ahead of the ATF market in Singapore,…

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