Video Age International December 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/December 2016 - VOL. 36 NO. 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” 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. Why is football so inefficient? In part because shareholder oversight of management is a rare exception in the sport. Unsurprisingly, the two most successful clubs in Spain, Real Madrid 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 fans can register as members and fundamentally have the same oversight rights as shareholders. German clubs have strict Economics Drive Asia’s Interest inWestern Football (Continued on Page 18) My2¢: Industry’s retirees should be proud of Horowitz’s legacy Larry Gershman joins the Int’l Distribution Hall of Fame MIPCOM Review: The biggest, richest TV content show on earth Discop Johannesburg looks at a $1 billion import TV market Page 26 Page 14 Page 10 Page 6 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. syndication market, NATPE has evolved in its Miami location into an event with a heavy Latin American focus, and it’s attracting more and U.K.GroupsNowGo ToNATPEForLatin, EuropeanTVBusiness (Story on Page 22) (Continued on Page 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 total programming hours sold to the Southeast Asia region. This year, the 17th annual ATF will be held December 7-9 at the usual Marina Bay Sands Convention Center, with a pre-market event on Tuesday, December 6. 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. At ATF Sales Grow To Asian TV Outlets