Videoage International October 2020

22 October 2020 V I D E O A G E July 30: Kanal D’s New Life resumed production in Tur- key. July 31: James Murdoch re- signed from News Corp. August 5: Manuela Caputi left Italy’s Mediaset Distribu- tion. August 6: Paul Telegdy exi- ted as chairman at NBC Enter- tainment. August 7: Bob Greenblatt and Kevin Reilly exited War- nerMedia. August 7: Austrian TV exe- cutive Gerhard Zeiler (pictu- red below) was put in charge of WarnerMedia’s newly integra- ted international operations for Warner Bros., HBO, and Turner Networks. He was also tapped to handle worldwide content sales. August 10: Jeff Schlesinger exited WB TV Worldwide Di- stribution. August 18: MIP Cancun can- celed its live event and became a virtual market set for Novem- ber 17-20. August 21: The Argentinian government imposed a rate fre- eze for pay-tv services. August 24: VideoAge pub- lished its August/September Issue (print and digital). August 29: Pedro Simonci- ni (pictured below) died in Bue- nos Aires at age 97. He was the founder of the Telefe TV Net- work in Argentina. June 25: New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo ’s half-hour morning TV updates on the pandemic were proposed for a Daytime Emmy Award by VideoAge . The updates began on March 2, and ended on June 19, averaging 4.7 million viewers daily across all media. June 26: Nippon Television appointed Hiroyuki Fukuda as board director and COO. July 1: Disney Media Distribution held its L.A. Screenings virtual event. July 8: Tyler Perry’s series Sistas restarted production in Atlanta. July 13: The AFM became a virtual market and pushed its dates from November 3-8 to November 9-13. July 14: NBCUni’s Peacock streaming service was launched. July 17: Ignacio Corrales became managing director of Buendia Estudios, which was formed in Spain on June 17. July 20: Beau Ferrari was named chairman of NBCUni Telemundo Enterprises. July 29: The Primetime Emmy Awards became a virtual event set for September 30. (Continued From Page 20) What Happened