Videoage International May 2019

RETNI N A T OI N A L ww w.V i ed goA .e org THE BUSINESS JOURNAL OF FILM, BROADCASTING, BROADBAND, PRODUCTION, DISTRIBUTION May 2019 - VOL. 39 NO. 3 - $9.75 By Dom Serafini I n order to deal with the devolu- tion of windowing, or the chan- ging patterns of media rights ex- ploitation for audiovisual content, it is necessary to travel back in time to when television began. At the time, there was just one window for TV shows, and two windows for thea- trical movies. Then, in the U.S., do- mestic syndication opened up a third window, and international sales in the mid-1960s developed a fourth window. Subsequently, cable and sa- tellite TV channels and home video created two more windows (which ultimately became three with the addition of “premium” channels). It took two decades for the TV industry to go from one to six (still manage- able) windows, plus ancillary (airli- nes, schools, military, etc.) rights. The TV content sector remained relatively unchanged for another two decades with the aforementio- ned manageable rights. By then, the residual aspects of various content exploitation rights were well esta- blished, with the creative commu- nities (actors, directors, screenwri- ters, etc.) enjoying hefty returns on reruns. Then the floodgates opened up in Blurred Windows: The Devolution of IP Rights (Continued on Page 42) My 2¢: 5G moved the Cold War from outer space to cyberspace L.A. Screenings: What’s on tap at the InterContinental Sección en Español: Ratings en Canada, IA, mesas de restaurante L.A. Screenings: The pilots for 2019-20 get better air training Page 46 Page 32 Page 25 Page 14 T he yearly pilgrimage to the Mecca of entertainment con- tinues with the 56th annual L.A. Screenings, this year taking pla- ce May 14-23. But there will be a lot of changes this time around. Fox Stu- dios is no longer around after being absorbed by Disney. There will be a L.A. Screenings Full of Known Surprises (Continued on Page 40) (Continued on Page 12) By Susan Hornik A t the Television Critics Asso- ciation’s (TCA) winter press tour, reps from numerous U.S. TV broadcast networks were present to discuss their midseason strategies. VideoAge was at the Pasa- dena, California confab to report on the two weeks-plus of broadcast and cable panels. At the TCA’s summer press tour, set to take place in July, the U.S. broadcast sector will get a clear picture of the industry’s new assets and the programming strategies the major TVnetworks areusing tobattle digital and streaming competitors. TVCritics Get TV Execs ToTell TV Viewers TVTrends