Interviews

This year, Nickelodeon celebrates its 30th anniversary as a premier destination for children. From delivering fun animation to live-action series for tweens, from specials on important issues in the news to influential  prosocial campaigns, Nickelodeon has made it its mission …

April 2009   With an aggressive acquisitions spree in the last two years, E1 Entertainment has boldly declared itself a major player in the international production-and-distribution market. What started as a home-entertainment distributor in Canada is now a global enterprise …

April 2009 When Herbert Kloiber and his partner, Fritz Buttenstedt, acquired Tele München Grüppe (TMG) in 1977, the company’s main business was the production and distribution of classical music programs—with a strong emphasis on quality. This strategy immediately paid off. …

April 2009 With almost all of its funding derived from a license fee, the Japanese public broadcaster NHK is counting on the support of its audiences as it faces the challenges ahead. For Shigeo Fukuchi, who assumed the post of …

CEO FremantleMedia   Reality television was already established when the American Idol phenomenon hit the scene. It was a transformational show for the FOX network and remains the highest-rated series in the U.S. The Idols format, which originated in the …

President Sparks Network Just last week, Sparks Network welcomed three new members to its fold: Schwartzkopff TV of Germany, Japan’s Collaboration, Inc. and Pelican, a newly created Russian outfit. They join some 20 production companies already affiliated with Sparks, a …

Tween Hit-Maker Dan Schneider A self-professed kid at heart—actually he says he’s always going to be that cutup in class making fun of the teacher—Dan Schneider has the uncanny ability to be able to get into kids’ heads and think, …

President and CEO Dori Media Group   Dori Media Group has coined a phrase for the kind of titles it is offering on the international market: “new-velas.” The term reflects the company’s ambition to refresh and renew the telenovela genre, …

COO & President CME   April 2009   Central European Media Enterprises (CME) was founded in 1994 by Ronald Lauder and has become the leading broadcast group in Central and Eastern Europe. Today, with stations in seven countries—Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech …

Chief Executive Southern Star  April 2009 One of the biggest pieces of news from the media business that wasn’t about plunging profits or drastic cuts came earlier this year when Endemol announced it was acquiring the Southern Star Group from …