Thursday, March 28, 2024

Interviews

David Zaslav

October 3, 2008

October 2008 Discovery Communications’ bouquet of more than 100 networks stretches around the globe to 170-plus countries and territories and reaches 1.5 billion cumulative subscribers. President and CEO David Zaslav is well aware of the value of Discovery’s many assets, …

Michael Eisner

October 3, 2008

October 2008 Michael Eisner has indisputably been one of the dominant figures in the entertainment industry. He began as a page at the NBC studios in New York and was later hired by the programming department at CBS, where he …

Philippe Dauman

October 3, 2008

October 2008 With its MTV Networks division constantly churning out programming that appeals to children, teens and young adults, and the Hollywood studio Paramount Pictures making movies for all age groups, Viacom is a content powerhouse whose product stretches across …

Michael Börnicke

September 11, 2008

Börnicke spoke to World Screen before his resignation in September 2008. After its launch, in 1991, Premiere experienced some difficult times establishing its presence in the extremely crowded German TV landscape, one with more than 30 free-TV channels plus two very …

Pierre Belaïsch

September 8, 2008

April 2008 With its four networks—Canal J, Tiji, Filles TV and Gulli—Lagardére Active has become the dominant player in the French kids’ channel business. In the cable and satellite landscape, young viewers can start out by watching Tiji, progress to …

Claude de Saint Vincent

September 2, 2008

April 2008 With a catalogue of more than 1,500 hours of content, including classics such as Tintin, Mediatoon has become home to one of the largest animation libraries in Europe. The company is a division of the French media powerhouse …

Cristiana Nobili

September 2, 2008

April 2008 Who would have thought that the simple idea of a showing a group of middle-school kids walking in the halls between classes, talking about all sorts of tween triumphs, trials and tribulations, would lead to a format that …

Lord Waheed Alli

August 25, 2008

April 2008 Since its acquisition by the private-equity firm 3i in 2006, Chorion has been gaining ground as an independent rights owner in the crowded kids’ landscape. In addition to owning the literary estates of the likes of Raymond Chandler …

Linda Jensen

August 25, 2008

June 2008 Linda Jensen was in Moscow working on her university dissertation during the perestroika years. She got involved in television there, was fascinated by the politics and the culture and has remained in the region ever since. She worked …

Christian Davin

August 18, 2008

April 2008 Christian Davin founded Alphanim in 1997 and guided it into becoming one of the leading production and distribution companies in France. Its slate of shows for children includes Robotboy, Potatoes & Dragons, Hairy Scary and Galactik Football, as …