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DTVE Channels MIPTV 2015 special issue
Recent discussion of the future of TV channels has often seemed to be the chronicle of a death foretold, thanks to the flight of consumers to on-demand, OTT and multiscreen. If so, the senior channel executives interviewed for this special MIP TV issue of Digital TV Europe have yet to take the message board. All believe that the channel concept has a lot of life left in it.
We hear from Discovery Networks International president JB Perrette about the opportunity to launch local version of sports service Eurosport’s second channel, while Scripps Networks international chief Jim Samples talks about the value of its acquisition of Polish national broadcaster TVN.
A+E Networks’ Dean Possenniskie talks about the merits of rights ownership within a portfolio of three to six channels, while Your Family Entertainment’s Paul Robinson highlights the value of global rights to a significant content library.
Trace’s Laurent Dumeau talks about opportunities in Africa and Latin America, while Sony’s John Rossiter highlights the value of the channel business in central Europe.