Videoage International December 2019

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 2019 - VOL. 39 NO. 7 - $9.75 By Alessandro Valentini B y many accounts, China is the world’s second-largest spender in TV productions and acquisitions, and Chinese con- sumers are increasingly accessing television content online due to ag- gressive investments by companies such as Baidu, Alibaba, and Ten- cent, which have incremented their spending on content origination and acquisition. Influenced by the recent geopoli- tical situation and, in particular, by its changing relationship with the United States, Chinese broadcasters are raising their efforts to create original content, reflecting the de- sire to promote local culture and innovation, and to avoid an overuse of Western formats, which is consi- dered a serious limit to the growth of the national sector. China was named the country of honor at MIPCOM 2018, which in- duced a large delegation of decision- makers to go to Cannes to illustrate the state of the Chinese TV indus- try to the international community. The delegation consisted of senior executives from China Central Tele- MediaReforminChinaAimsTo MakeTVMoreInternational (Continued on Page 16) Film Commissions invade the AFM in Santa Monica Donald Trump’s relationship with the medium that made him Analyzing Brexit’s impact on the U.K. AV industry My 2¢: TV trade show organizers need a word for “return to origins” Page 10 Page 8 Page 4 Page 3 R eed Exhibitions, which or- ganizes the Asia TV Forum (ATF), appears to be enam- ored with OTT services. Indeed, the theme of this year’s ATF is “Stream- ing the Future.” And the theme of the recently concluded MIPCOM market (another Reed Exhibitions event, ATF: Southeast Asia’s KeyMarketWith a MissingKey Element (Continued on Page 14) (Continued on Page 12) “T he theme of the up- coming NATPE Miami market is ‘Linear Plus’ because linear television still generates huge business worldwide and still drives the content market- place,” said NATPE president and CEO JP Bommel during a lunch meeting with VideoAge in New York City in late October. Over some pasta aglio e olio , Bommel also illustrated NATPE’s “six shows in one track” strategy. “NATPE Miami,” he said, “is a one- stop shop for the global commerce of content and it is made of six distinct, NATPE Miami’s Six Tracks Drive Content Sales