Interviews

April 2007 By Mansha Daswani Studies have shown that teens and young adults are increasingly consuming media on every platform possible, from watching clips on their cell phones to downloading full-length episodes online. As such, it’s no wonder that MTV …

April 2007 By Mansha Daswani As the president and managing director of Turner Broadcasting System Asia Pacific, Steve Marcopoto is in charge of overseeing the kids’ brands Cartoon Network and Pogo, the news network CNN, the movie channel TCM and …

April 2007 By Anna Carugati As the president and CEO of the Modern Times Group (MTG), Hans-Holger Albrecht sits at the helm of the top free-TV and pay-TV operator in Scandinavia and the Baltics and the biggest shareholder in Russia’s …

April 2007 By Anna Carugati Steven Levy is a senior editor and the writer of “The Technologist” column at Newsweek. He’s spent his entire career chronicling the digital revolution, which he believes is the biggest story of our time. On …

April 2007 By Anna Carugati When film enthusiasts go to a movie directed by Ridley Scott, they know they will be treated to a visual spectacle. He took the science-fiction genre to a new level with Alien and Blade Runner. …

April 2007 By Mansha Daswani Just two years ago, BitTorrent was the bane of Hollywood. The peer-to-peer file-sharing software developed by Bram Cohen in 2001 became, for some time, the easiest way to rapidly download film and television content online—albeit …

April 2007 The landmark deal in October 2005 between The Walt Disney Company and Apple’s iTunes Store that made television shows available for online purchase and download was a clear sign that television had changed forever. Disney has remained front …

April 2007 By Anna Carugati After becoming a billionaire through the sale of his company Broadcast.com to Yahoo!, Mark Cuban took a bet on television—not conventional TV, but high definition—and cofounded HDNet and HDNet Movies. As outspoken as he is …

June 2007 By Mansha Daswani Charles Falzon knows a thing or two about building a successful kids’ property. As president of Gullane Entertainment for many years, overseeing such properties as Thomas & Friends, Falzon led the delivery of more than …

June 2007 By María Teresa Alvarado Marcos Santana is recognized as an expert in the telenovela business. He spent two decades at Tepuy International, a leading producer and distributor of high-end telenovelas. In addition to its other productions, Tepuy distributed …