Video Age International December 2016

I N T E R N A T I O N A L www.VideoAge.org THEBUSINESS JOURNALOF FILM,BROADCASTING,BROADBAND,PRODUCTION,DISTRIBUTION November/December 2016 -VOL.36NO.7 - $9.75 F ootball (or soccer, as it’s called in North America) is famous for being one of the least efficient sectors of the sports and entertainment industry.Recent investment, however, has led to small steps being taken toward the “corporatization”ofthesport,sothat 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 implementedchanges through trial- and-error. Why is football so inefficient? In part because shareholder oversight ofmanagement is a rare exception in the sport. Unsurprisingly, the twomost successful clubs in Spain, RealMadrid CF and FC Barcelona (respectively the second and third most valuable sports franchises in the world, according to Forbes ’ most recent ranking), are clubs whose fanscan registerasmembers and fundamentally have the same oversight rightsas shareholders. German clubs have strict Economics Drive Asia’s Interest inWestern Football (Continued onPage 18) My2¢: Industry’s retireesshouldbeproud ofHorowitz’s legacy LarryGershman joins the Int’lDistribution Hall of Fame MIPCOMReview: Thebiggest, richest TV content showonearth Discop Johannesburg looks at a $1 billion import TVmarket Page26 Page14 Page10 Page6 N ATPE has been a familiar fixture on the TV distri- bution calendar for 37 years, but the TV industry has changed, and so has the event. Originally designed to serve the U.S.syndicationmarket,NATPEhas evolved in itsMiami location intoan eventwith a heavy LatinAmerican focus, and it’s attractingmore and U.K.GroupsNowGo ToNATPEForLatin, EuropeanTVBusiness (Story onPage 22) (Continued onPage 20) T he Latin American presence in Singapore for the Asia TV Forum (ATF) international market is impressive, as usual — not so much for the number of exhibiting companies, but for the totalprogramminghours sold to the Southeast Asia region. This year, the 17th annual ATF will be held December 7-9 at the usualMarina Bay Sands Convention Center,with a pre-market event on Tuesday, December6. So far, the LATAM presence amounts to some 10 exhibitors covering five countries, including Telemundo,Televisa,Brazil’sRecord TV, as well as Colombia’s Caracol. 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Discop Johannesburg Roundup: They offered a $1 billion sub-Sahara program import marketplace 10. MIPCOM Review: The Biggest TV Content Show On Earth Delivered Its Promise The Norman Horowitz Syndrome: a social-business condition that is beneficial to all concerned, but like good bacteria, its value is not yet fully appreciated. Page 26 Features Cover Stories Football’s economics: Asia’s interest in Western teams, games and Western shortfalls NATPE 2017: Miami’s spiced-up market gives Europeans renewed hopes for TV sales Road to ATF: Singapore is small, but the city-state commitment to local film, TV production is big and rich