Videoage International December 2018

I N T E R N A T I O N A L www.V i deoAge.or g THE BUSINESS JOURNAL OF FILM, BROADCASTING, BROADBAND, PRODUCTION, DISTRIBUTION December 2018 - VOL. 38 NO. 7 - $9.75 O n weekends, French TV net- work TF1 broadcasts a seri- es of documentaries called La France Inconnue (or The Unknown France ), about the Dom-Tom territo- ries, which stands for Départements et Territoires d’Outre-Mer , or overse- as French territorial departments. These territories are in effect Eu- ropean since they are part of Fran- ce, even though the French don’t know much about them. Programs like those on TF1 serve to educate the public. Similarly, international TV content sellers are aware of the- se overseas territories, but only a few seem to have realized that their residents are E.U. citizens and their currency is the euro. France is not the only E.U. state with territories outside Europe. The E.U. has 29 member states that are outside of Europe around the world, fromCanada to South America, from Africa to the South Pacific. These territories are part of either France, the U.K., the Netherlands, Denmark, Spain, or Portugal, comprising a total 1.5 million TV Households (TVHH). Selling TVRights to 29 E.U. TerritoriesOutside The E.U. (Continued on Page 8) My 2¢: CEOs can only be visionaries if Wall Street lets them risk failure MIP Cancun: The best prelude to NATPE Miami Film market now asks for badges to enter hotel’s lobby Greek TV prizes 90-minute series coming from Turkey Page 22 Page 16 Page 14 Page 4 I nternational TV content distribu- tors often ask VideoAge whether or not the Asia TV Forum (ATF) would be a good market for them. The answer tends to be the standard: “In order to meet buyers from 11 Sou- theast Asian (SEA) countries who only attend TV trade shows in the West in small numbers, one either has to travel around the SEA region for months at a time, or attend the ATF in Singapore.” This year’s event is being held December 4-7 at the tra- ATFAskedToKeep FocusMoreonMart ThanConferences (Continued on Page 19) (Continued on Page 18) D uring interviews, market organizers — whether for MIP-TV, the AFM, the ATF, or NATPE — always seem to want to talk about their respective conferen- ce’s line-up of top-level executives. VideoAge , on the other hand, being an international trade publication focusing on the selling and buying of TV content, tends to try and steer the conversation over to the essence of any given market: Exhibitors and content acquisition organizations. With that sense of duty in mind, VideoAge asked several pointed questions of NATPE president and CEO JP Bommel (pictured above) about the upcoming NATPE Miami, which will be held yet again at the NATPE’s CEO Talks About Market Growth