Video Age International November 2016

I N T E R N A T I O N A L www.V i deoAge.org THE BUSINESS JOURNAL OF FILM, BROADCASTING, BROADBAND, PRODUCTION, DISTRIBUTION November 2016 - VOL. 36 NO. 7 - $9.75 D iscop Johannesburg is now entering its fifth year. The event, to be held in its usual venue, the Sandton Convention Center, is expecting 250 exhibition companies eager to enter or continue serving a developing, but fast-growing TV marketplace. This year, the three-day market dates are a bit problematic because the event starts November 2, just 12 days after MIPCOM in Cannes. To aggravate the matter, it runs concurrently with the American Film Market in Santa Monica, California and just four days after the NAB Show New York. But while the latter is mostly hardware and audience data-related, the former has the kind of exhibitors who would benefit from a group of Sub- Saharan African buyers who rarely attend other international markets. Africa and other developing TV markets are the bread and butter of Discop’s organizer, Basic Lead’s Patrick Zuchowicki Jucaud, who, in addition to Discop Johannesburg, runs Discop in Abidjan, Ivory Coast; Discop Dubai in the United Arab Sub-Saharan TV: A $1 Billion Program ImportMarketplace (Continued on Page 20) MIPCOM Review: The biggest, richest TV content show on earth Book Review: Alfred Hitchcock. Not an odd duck, but a strange bird NAB New York Preview: Where 4K, 3D, 120 fps numbers add up My2¢: Industry retirees should be proud of NormanHorowitz’s legacy Page 10 Page 8 Page 4 Page 3 A mong former U.S. studios’ TV distribution presidents, there were three executives who were larger than life, and Lawrence (Larry) Eugene Gershman was one. And after almost 60 years in the TV business, he’s still going strong producing for cable TV networks. LarryGershman: The Int’l TVDistribution Hall of FameHonoree (Story on Page 14) (Continued on Page 18) F ootball (or soccer, as it’s called in North America) is famous for being one of the least efficient sectors of the sports/ entertainment industry. Recent investment, however, has led to small steps being taken toward the “corporatization” of the sport, so that now the picture is much different from the one painted by the 2009 book Soccernomics — co-written by economist Stefan Szymanski and sportswriter Simon Kuper — the story of a sport managed via preconceived absolutes, which only implemented changes through trial- and-error. Asia’s Interest In Western Football, And Shortfalls