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Global television programming fairs (MIP-TV, MIPCOM, NATPE) have received little attention from media scholars. Nevertheless, as this article demonstrates, these fairs serve a variety of crucial business and cultural functions in international television trade. Although they have come under fire recently from executives and industry observers alike, this article argues that such fairs are semi-permanent features of the international syndication industry. As such, they warrant more serious consideration by media scholars from numerous disciplinary backgrounds who hope to understand both the economic and cultural operations of television globalization., Global television programming fairs, officially known as 'sales markets' in the business, lie at the heart of international syndication. Such programming trade shows as MIP-TV (Marche International des Programmes de [...]

The 70th annual National Association of Broadcasters' Apr 12 to 16, 1992 convention expects over 700 participants and over 55,000 attendees. The focus will be on adaptability, modularity, functionality, compatibility and amortization in television broadcasting and film production. Participants will be offering a wider range of computer systems, hardware and software for television production and post production. One of the highlights of the convention will be the presentation of advantages and disadvantages of a new widescreen television format.

Exhibitors and station executives, many of whom were forced far from the New Orleans Convention Center for food last year-the first and last year of NATPE's attempt to create a [...]

NAB 90: FOCUS ON TECHNOLOGY Tale of the tape The half-inch composite digital videotape format developed by the Japanese broadcasting network NHK and broadcast equipment manufacturer Matsushita may have gotten [...]

NAB 90: FOCUS ON TECHNOLOGY The National Association of Broadcasters convention's move from Las Vegas to Atlanta did nothing to diminish its reputation as the premier showcase of high-end video [...]

Controller of program acquisitions, June Dromgoole, is expected to represent Channel 4 at Mipcom 1998. Dromgoole is responsible for purchasing for Channel 4 and also the coming digital pay-TV film service Film Four, which is expected to be launched in November 1998. Feature films, television films and primetime series are top of Dromgoole's shopping list. An overview of who will represent other television networks at Mipcom is included.

NATPE might still be a show of TV shows, but for many station executives in New Orleans last week, the convention was less about programming than about major changes in [...]

The byword was caution at the MIPCOM international television market in Cannes, France, last week. Programs were bought and sold, co-productions arranged and other deals done, but most agreed the [...]

Byline: Michele Greppi How congenial was the 49th annual CBS Affiliates Convention in Las Vegas last week? The two-day gathering at the Bellagio Hotel wrapped with a closed session in [...]

Byline: Louis Chunovic and Chris Pursell The first annual Syndicated Network Television Association's marketplace, held last week in Manhattan, was an overdue wake-up call for Madison Avenue's media buyers and [...]

Perhaps the most pressing question heading into this year's eighth annual U.S. Comedy Arts Festival is -- at least from a network TV point of view -- how the recessed [...]

The U.S. contingent at Mip TV, the annual Cannes mart, took on the world. Twentieth Century Fox TV Distribution announced a multiyear output deal with Antenna TV, Greece's terrestrial web, [...]

CANNES The 2001 Mip TV trade mart won't go down as one of the most vibrant in history, with some 200 execs fewer than last year -- but exhibitors and [...]

Recession, strike threat cramp style on Croisette A new reality show starring the international TV biz hit Mip last week: It featured global economic slowdown, broadcasters on tighter budgets and [...]

The world's new economic outlook looked dire at Milia 2001, the multimedia market that took place in Cannes, France, last February. This could be a danger sign on the road [...]

LONDON In one of the more unusual international TV tie-ups in recent times, Europe's oldest broadcasting festival is getting into bed with the industry's biggest program market. The Prix Italia […]

Now entering its 11th year, SPORTEL has emerged as the leading sports-programming television market in the world -- bringing together broadcasters, cable and satellite services, distributors, acquisitions executives, producers, event [...]

ST. TROPEZ, France Rendez-Vous 99, a four-day extravaganza otherwise known as the French TV screenings, is beginning to prove itself as the little market that could. Organized by Television France [...]

Silk Road opens with novel payment plans TASHKENT, Uzbekistan Distribs got a taste of the exotic East in the Uzbek capital Sept. 4-5 at Silk Road TV Bazaar'99, a debut [...]

CANNES -- It fell on a weekend, the sun shone, and everybody bitched about having to work. But the fact is that the MIPCOM television market looks like it's turning […]

There appears to be an epidemic permeating Hollywood's international TV community, evidenced by an unfamiliar distortion in the facial muscles surrounding the mouth. The affliction had researchers stumped until someone […]

'If you build it, they will come' seems to be the motto at the National Association of Television Programming Executives, which is working overtime to lure leading TV distributors back […]

DISCOP Program Showcase East, the market aimed at broadcasters and pay-TV operators from emerging television marketplaces, celebrates its 11th year in Budapest, Hungary, from June 26 to 28 at its [...]

The first signs of a rebound by the long-embattled international TV sector may be emerging this week at the annual Los Angeles Screenings, with studio executives and a handful of […]

CANNES -- MIFED's upcoming 70th edition will be under new management, which is hatching a major revamp plan for the Milan film, television and multimedia market. In January, Europe's oldest […]

Canadian broadcasters, busily checking out new U.S. network shows at the Los Angeles Screenings, have expressed surprise at an unexpected dearth of reality programming. 'No one is talking about reality […]

Between the military conflict in Iraq and the outbreak of a deadly new virus in the Far East, not to mention the continuing recession, consolidation and perhaps even the Oscars [...]

Uncertainty over the outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome has forced organizers of Hong Kong's annual Film & Television Market (Filmart) to postpone this year's event to September. At the […]

Attendance may be reduced this year, but innovation will be as prolific as ever at the TV service industry's annual kitfest. And technologies to exchange and manipulate video as digital [...]

Last summer, leaders of the National Association of Television Programming Executives met to decide the fate of the show it holds every January. It didn't look good. 'It was really [...]

VENICE, Italy -- The upcoming 69th MIFED--the Milan Film, Television, and Multimedia Market--is spending almost $500,000 on a revamp to protect its status as a vital fall sales event against [...]

From September 9-13, television program buyers from around the globe gather for deal-making, hand-shaking and fun under the Saint-Tropez sun for the eighth annual edition of the French TV Screenings, [...]

Canadian broadcasters flew home from the Los Angeles Screenings on Thursday after engaging in a more evenly balanced buying expedition following recent industry realignment. CanWest Global Communications Corp., which operates [...]

MONTREAL The main Canadian buyers will be going into the L.A. Screenings with tighter purse strings than usual given that Canuck broadcasters have been hit hard by the same ad [...]

MIP-TV organizers were walking the Palais in Cannes to reassure outraged exhibitors that cost increases were to be dealt with at the local government and hotel association levels, so that [...]

Technology has always looked toward the future; the perpetual question is, how do we get there, particularly in this volatile market? MILIA, the World's Interactive Content Marketplace taking place in [...]