A full day of keynote interviews and panel discussion at Variety‘s Entertainment and Technology Summit in L.A. delved into the future of the media business, and the big bets that industry players are making to get there. Here are some of the key takeaways from Thursday’s event, held at the Four Seasons Hotel Los Angeles at Beverly Hills.
Bundles will continue to reform in a digital-streaming world: FX Networks boss John Landgraf talked about the cable network group’s future as part of Disney. One of his points: bundles will still be crucial to achieve scale. “Fifty million people are not going to buy a single branded service,” Landgraf said, calling out the FX Plus authenticated Svod service. “It has to be bundled and aggregated into larger, more convenient ways of buying.”
At&T placing bets on digital media: The telco, with the buyout of Otter Media from former partner Chernin Group,...
Bundles will continue to reform in a digital-streaming world: FX Networks boss John Landgraf talked about the cable network group’s future as part of Disney. One of his points: bundles will still be crucial to achieve scale. “Fifty million people are not going to buy a single branded service,” Landgraf said, calling out the FX Plus authenticated Svod service. “It has to be bundled and aggregated into larger, more convenient ways of buying.”
At&T placing bets on digital media: The telco, with the buyout of Otter Media from former partner Chernin Group,...
- 9/7/2018
- by Todd Spangler
- Variety Film + TV
What do a presidential summit, a blooming flower, and the sight of the rolling highway from a trucker’s windshield have in common? ABC News has deployed dozens of staffers at its New York headquarters to identify images such as these, collect them and get them ready to glide across smartphone screens – all in a bid to capture the interest of a rising generation of news junkies who no longer think first about turning on a TV when important headlines start to flash.
“We are constantly looking across the globe for the most interesting live moment happening now,” explains Colby Smith, ABC News’ senior vice president of content and partnerships, who oversees the unit’s embryonic live-streaming effort.
At any given time, ABC News staffers may look at feeds from the Associated Press, or live video from Nasa International Space Station camera, which can provide illuminating views as severe storms and hurricanes start to swirl.
“We are constantly looking across the globe for the most interesting live moment happening now,” explains Colby Smith, ABC News’ senior vice president of content and partnerships, who oversees the unit’s embryonic live-streaming effort.
At any given time, ABC News staffers may look at feeds from the Associated Press, or live video from Nasa International Space Station camera, which can provide illuminating views as severe storms and hurricanes start to swirl.
- 7/19/2018
- by Brian Steinberg
- Variety Film + TV
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