All Distributors articles – Page 54
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FeaturesTips for hiring the right distributor
Increasing distribution turnover is one of our key aims to beat the credit crunch. How can we make sure we hire the right distributor?
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Pact opens doors to digital and distributors
Pact is extending its membership to digital content producers and distributors for the first time.
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Distributors unite to fight for terms of trade
Some of the UK's biggest distributors have responded to the government's Digital Britain report by banding together to protect the rights won by the indie sector in the 2003 Communications Act.
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NewsDistributors join forces to create export group
The UK's biggest distributors are to work together on boosting the country's international television business through an advisory body supported by the government.
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FeaturesIn-house sales vs third party distributor
Q: I'm working at a small production company that is considering setting up an in-house sales team to distribute shows. Should we do it ourselves or use a third party distributor?
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NewsDistributors Survey 2008
Broadcast's annual survey of the UK top distributors can now be browsed online. Find out who tops the league table, what the distributors think of each other and the challenges ahead. [Click here]
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FeaturesThe Distributors League Table
The latest financial results for the UK’s top distributors may herald a watershed year; revenues are up, thanks to strong growth from mid-sized companies, but there are signs that the market is cooling.
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Distributor Debmar gets into Hot Seat
Newcastle-based indie Standing Stone Productions has sold the rights to new reality gameshow format Hot Seat to worldwide distribution company Debmar-Mercury.
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NewsWhizz Kid buys into distributor
Whizz Kid, the producer of the Baftas, is to take a controlling stake in TV distribution and fund-raising company Precious Media after receiving a£2m cash injection from investor Ingenious.
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NewsUK distributors expect bumper sales at Natpe
UK distributors are predicting the US writers' strike will result in a bumper Natpe.
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CommentWhy distributors still believe in kids
Life might be getting tougher for kids producers in the UK, but distributors remain upbeat about the genre.
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NewsMGM sacks Sony as distributor
Longstanding US film studio MGM - producer of the James Bond film franchise - is to re-establish its television distribution activities, snatching back the rights from Sony Pictures.
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Fuji distributors
Fujifilm has appointed CCK Video Services Ltd, PMD Magnetics and Protape Limited as its new distributors to supply the professional video market. Each distributor will now provide the entire range of Fuji recording media products. This follows the merger of professional video with the company's recording media business unit last ...
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Distributors report confidence
Almost 74% of respondents to Broadcast's first survey of the distribution sector believe business has improved as a result of the new terms of trade. Of the companies that responded, 92.3% ended their financial year feeling more confident about the sector than a year ago.
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NewsDistributors hail terms of trade
2.30pm:The majority of TV distributors think the new terms of trade have benefited their bottom line, according to Broadcast's first survey of the sector.
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NewsFahrenheit 9/11 distributor bids£500m for Hit
Hit Entertainment is set to find itself at the centre of a£500m bidding war as Canadian media group Lions Gate Entertainment prepares to make a takeover approach.
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Bad Girls distributor on awards shortlist
Alison Rayson, chief executive of Bad Girls distributor Target Entertainment, has been shortlisted for the entrepreneur of the year prize at the National Business Awards. The awards will be held in London on 9 November.
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Miles starts distributor
Former September Films chief operating officer Sally Miles, who left the indie six months ago, has set up her own distribution company, supported by venture capitalists Ingenious Media.
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Commissioning - Distributor's Q&A - Caroline Torrance.
The head of international drama at Granada International discusses the perennial appeal of detective series around the globe and the search for aspirational drama in the vein of Cold Feet.