Videoage International January 2019

I N T E R N A T I O N A L www.VideoAge.org THEBUSINESS JOURNALOF FILM,BROADCASTING,BROADBAND,PRODUCTION,DISTRIBUTION January 2019 -VOL.39NO.1 - $9.75 C anadian television is curren- tly tackling twomajor issues: Multilingual broadcasts and the ratingsystem. In themidstof the- se issues, two old-fashioned media brawls have broken out. At stake, in thismulticulturalnation, iswhowill emergeas theultimate licenseholder of Canada’s main multilingual net- work, andwhat the new role of the ratingsystem isgoing tobe. On the subject of the first issue, heavyweightplayers suchasRogers —whoseOMNImulticulturalchan- nel license is up for grabs— and Bellare in themix,but soare scrap- pybantamweightsTelelatino (TLN) and the Asian Television Network (ATN). Inanattempt todouble their odds for the purposes of this bid, those two have teamed up to form CanadaWorldTV. TheCanadianRadio-televisionand Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) has called for and is refe- reeing this tag-team smackdown, withongoinghearingsbetween the eight applicants. A winner in this linguistic lotterywillbeannounced this spring. One big question re- mains,however—whowillwatch? Ratings inCanadaDon’tGive “Numeris”toEthnicChannels (Continued onPage 28) My 2¢:Restaurant tables as status symbols Sección en Español: Animación,LATAM, VoD en Escandinavia This time,ATF paid attention to exhibitors and buyers Malaysian TV and films plagued by censorship Page 34 Page 13 Page 8 Page 4 T o paraphrase Dante’s Divine Comedy , “in themidway” of his career in the television content distribution business, Ri- chard Christopher Milnes found himself ina “gloomywood”of intri- gue and secrecy.The yearwas 1971, exactly 10 years after he had “ente- red thiswonderful business” by joi- RichardMilnes:The Int’lTVDistribution HallofFameHonoree (Continued onPage 24) (Continued onPage 20) D uringaquicktriptoMiamito gather info for a preview of NATPEfromthemarketbase, VideoAge heard several assessments of three interlinked trade shows, as well as views concerning future TV industrydevelopments. The first assessment related to the reduction of LATAM business at MIPCOM due to the successful MIPCancun.The secondwas about NATPE, which is also benefitting fromMIPCancun sincedeals initia- ted there are bound to be finalized inMiami. Cancun, the thinking goes, is not taking anything away from NATPE sincemanyofthesmallerbuyersthat attend theMexicanmarket (such as NATPEata Crossroadsof BigChanges NATPE2019_TradeAds_VideoAge_FrontCover_TheRook.indd 1 1/8/19 4:10PM MAIN OFFICES 216 EAST 75TH STREET NEW YORK, NY 10021 TEL: (212) 288-3933 E-MAIL: admin@videoageinternational.com WWW.VIDEOAGE.ORG WWW.VIDEOAGELATINO.COM P.O. BOX 25282 LOS ANGELES, CA 90025 VIALE ABRUZZI 30 20123 MILAN, ITALY EDITOR-IN-CHIEF DOM SERAFINI EDITORIAL TEAM ISME BENNIE (CANADA) ENZO CHIARULLO (ITALY) LUIS POLANCO CARLOS GUROVICH LEAH HOCHBAUM ROSNER SUSAN HORNIK (L.A.) 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PURSUANT TO THE U.S. COPYRIGHTS ACT OF 1976, THE RIGHTS OF ALL CONTENT DONE ON ASSIGNMENT FOR ALL VIDEOAGE PUBLICATIONS ARE HELD BY THE PUBLISHER OF VIDEOAGE, WHICH COMMISSIONED THEM Restaurant tables serve to measure the stature of executives. Restaurateurs are the first to recognize the execs’ positions and tables are essentially the dining equivalent of corner offices with views of the park. Page 34 4. World: IFTA sees censorship as Malaysian film and TV markets’ main issue 6. Book Review. Sy Hersh: A hard-nosed journalist who went after hard news, not fake news 32. Calendar of yearly TV events and travel news: For U.S. airlines, passengers’ rights are only a state of mind Features Cover Stories Rating system in Canada doesn’t give “Numeris” to ethnic TV channels NATPE Miami: Now, more than ever, on the list of must-attend TV markets Int’l TV Distribution Hall of Fame: Richard Milnes’ story is full of intrigue, name changes, and California dreamin’ 8. Asia TV Forum report: Bigger than past markets. Sellers got more attention from buyers and organizers 13. Sección en Español Los altibajos de la exportación latinoamericana en los mercados de distribución Publishing en los negocios de la animación para TV Un análisis de varios VoD. Las ventas en Escandinavia de la IFTA 30. The L.A. Screenings 2019: A Preview of Things To Come News