VideoAge International November 2018

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 November 2018 - VOL. 38 NO. 6 - $9.75 (Continued on Page 14) T he Timeless Drama Chan- nel (TDC) is a new venture from multinational group SPI International, which is head- quartered in New York City, and operates a total of 16 offices around the world, including Israel, Poland, Tokyo, and Mexico City. This December, TDC will begin broadcasting Turkish TV dramas worldwide, because, explained Berk Uziyel, the Istanbul-basedmanaging director of SPI International, “Tur- kish television dramas are now watched by more than 400 million people in some 140 countries.” He also pointed out that “Turkey is TurkishDramas to Circle TheGlobe On aNewChannel MIPCOM: A very good market with some dark clouds A new book explains Frenemies in the advertising business World: Richard Milnes in the Hall of Fame, January 2019 My 2¢: The Internet brought us closer and farther apart Page 10 Page 8 Page 6 Page 3 A t five years old, MIP Cancun might be considered a tod- dler, but its powerful howls can still be heard up North inMiami. NATPE Miami, that is. The MIP Cancun LATAM TV market, held at the Moon Palace Re- sort November 14-16, is organized by Reed MIDEM, the same folks who MIP Cancun’s Added Benefits For Sellers (Continued on Page 12) African TVMarket Shows Growth and Challenges O ne of the cover stories in last month’s Issue of VideoAge covered MENA territories — the bread and butter of the upcoming DISCOP Africa event in Johannesburg, South Africa, which will be held November 14 to 16, and which is organized by the Los Angeles-based Basic Lead. Last month, the Los Angeles- based Independent Film & Tele- vision Alliance (IFTA) released a report on MENA, which stated that in Africa, international players are investing in cinema construction, nations continent-wide are transi- tioning from analog to digital tele- vision broadcast, and new regional pay-TV networks and VoD services are steadily gaining strong subscri- ber numbers. The African continent includes 54 recognized sovereign states. How- ever, as a film and television sales territory, much of the continent is often licensed together, divided by language. English-language rights are typically sold to South African (Continued on Page 4)