Videoage International January 2019

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 January 2019 - VOL. 39 NO. 1 - $9.75 C anadian television is curren- tly tackling two major issues: Multilingual broadcasts and the rating system. In the midst of the- se issues, two old-fashioned media brawls have broken out. At stake, in this multicultural nation, is who will emerge as the ultimate license holder of Canada’s main multilingual net- work, and what the new role of the rating system is going to be. On the subject of the first issue, heavyweight players such as Rogers —whose OMNI multicultural chan- nel license is up for grabs — and Bell are in the mix, but so are scrap- py bantamweights Telelatino (TLN) and the Asian Television Network (ATN). In an attempt to double their odds for the purposes of this bid, those two have teamed up to form Canada World TV. TheCanadianRadio-televisionand Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) has called for and is refe- reeing this tag-team smackdown, with ongoing hearings between the eight applicants. A winner in this linguistic lottery will be announced this spring. One big question re- mains, however — who will watch? Ratings in Canada Don’t Give “Numeris” to Ethnic Channels (Continued on Page 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 the midway” of his career in the television content distribution business, Ri- chard Christopher Milnes found himself in a “gloomy wood” of intri- gue and secrecy. The year was 1971, exactly 10 years after he had “ente- red this wonderful business” by joi- RichardMilnes: The Int’l TVDistribution Hall of FameHonoree (Continued on Page 24) (Continued on Page 20) D uring a quick trip toMiami to gather info for a preview of NATPEfromthemarketbase, VideoAge heard several assessments of three interlinked trade shows, as well as views concerning future TV industry developments. The first assessment related to the reduction of LATAM business at MIPCOM due to the successful MIP Cancun. The second was about NATPE, which is also benefitting from MIP Cancun since deals initia- ted there are bound to be finalized in Miami. Cancun, the thinking goes, is not taking anything away from NATPE sincemany of the smaller buyers that attend the Mexican market (such as NATPE at a Crossroads of Big Changes