Doha - Phil Lawrie has stepped down as director global distribution at Al Jazeera Network, to explore new challenges. In an e-mail to friends and colleagues, he announced his resignation, describing his time at Al Jazeera as “a fascinating, challenging and immensely rewarding few years.” He said, “I’ve had the honour and privilege of leading a fantastic team, spread across three continents and four time zones, and together we have enjoyed a great many highs, lows and a … [Read more...] about Lawrie exits Al Jazeera
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FremantleMedia’s classic game show, Family Feud is the #1 show on ANTV in Indonesia
London - FremantleMedia announced the return of classic game show Family Feud. Launching as Super Family, the daily strip has already claimed the top position on one of Indonesia's most established broadcasters, ANTV. A classic from the golden era of game shows, Super Family has become ANTV's highest rated programme within two weeks of its first transmission. Super Family boosted ANTV's primetime slot rating between 18.30 - 19.30 by 190% within its third week on air. This is the second time ANTV … [Read more...] about FremantleMedia’s classic game show, Family Feud is the #1 show on ANTV in Indonesia
FremantleMedia’s classic game show, Family Feud is the #1 show on ANTV in Indonesia
London – FremantleMedia announced the return of classic game show Family Feud. Launching as Super Family, the daily strip has already claimed the top position on one of Indonesia’s most established broadcasters, ANTV. A classic from the golden era of game shows, Super Family has become ANTV’s highest rated programme within two weeks of its first transmission. Super Family boosted ANTV’s primetime slot rating between 18.30 – 19.30 by 190% within its third week on … [Read more...] about FremantleMedia’s classic game show, Family Feud is the #1 show on ANTV in Indonesia
Back to the future
Louis Boswell, General Manager, AETN All Asia Networks Yes, I am glad 2009 over, but not because it was horrible; simply because I believe 2010 will be better. Our networks are young, and each year they grow, the better they do. The biggest challenge was to keep growing. Existing business was not badly affected by the financial crisis, but it became harder to do new distribution deals and it certainly became harder to grow advertising. So given that, our biggest achievements were to enter Taiwan … [Read more...] about Back to the future
SPT puts buyers in the Hot Seat
Addressing a full house, Angel Orenga, senior vice president, distribution Asia-Pacific described SPT as being so much more than films. “We are here today to convince you that we are more than films. We bring more than one, two or three genres; we provide our partners with programming solutions,” Orenga said. That said, in the past few months Sony has had considerable theatrical success with Michael Jackson’s This is It and 2012 together grossing over US$835 million since their … [Read more...] about SPT puts buyers in the Hot Seat
Paul Johnson steps down at Endemol Group
London – Endemol announced that Paul Johnson is stepping down from his position as global head of marketing and brand partnerships. After completing the full rebranding of the Endemol Group and with the successful launch of Endemol Worldwide Distribution at MIPCOM alongside the launch of Jerry Seinfeld’s The Marriage Ref, Paul Johnson will step down from his day to day role at Endemol Group at the end of the year. Johnson will continue in his current role until the end of the year … [Read more...] about Paul Johnson steps down at Endemol Group