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The Finance of Formats
European broadcasters gained US$2.75 billion in 2012 from the 100 top format titles. The…
Germany’s kids’ channels competition heats up
German children’s TV is set for its biggest shake-up in years, with the Disney Channel…
‘Russian HBO’ makes a major channels move
Russian producer Amedia has moved into the channels business in a big way, effectively launching…
Haslingden tunes up a new super indie
Until September last year, David Haslingden was Fox’s top channels executive, running its US and…
Murphy goes one step beyond
The new general manager of Australia-based Beyond Television tells TBI about changing international perceptions of…
NATPE’s Rod Perth: ‘TV talks Hollywood, Silicon Valley speaks Hungarian’
With NATPE Budapest 2013 wrapped up, Jesse Whittock sits down with NATPE CEO Rod Perth…
French documentaries singled out
Despite European public channels closing documentary slots and growing competition from hosted factual and reality…
Formats to see in CEE
As NATPE Budapest gets underway, TBI speaks to the main players about selling formats into…
Viewpoint: Atlantic’s Anthony Geffen on making factual content multiplatform
Atlantic Productions’ CEO Anthony Geffen on taking factual content from giant screen to TV screen…
FremantleMedia and BBC on kids partnership
Earlier this year the BBC and the Kids and Family division of FremantleMedia inked a…