| Viewpoints: Acquisition Strategies |
| Adalat Aliyev, President, Lider Media Holding, Azerbaijan |
| Adam Urban, Founder and Chairman, Uploaded.TV, Netherlands |
| Adel Sammakieh, Manager, Tele-Pictures Promoters International, Lebanon |
| Agnieszka Gyralska, Acquisitions and Sales Manager, Digital Partners Sp. z o.o., Poland |
| Alexandra Hanna, Business Development Manager, Blue August Creations, United Kingdom |
| Ana Uremovic, Program Coordinator, Otvorena Televizija Zagreb, Croatia |
| Artur Dmochowski, Channel Director, TVP Historia, Poland |
| Awni Al Lababidi, Managing Partner, Founoon Film Distribution, UAE - Dubai |
| Beatrice Riesenfelder, Head of Sales and Acquisitions, Austrian Broadcasting Corporation ORF, Austria |
| Björn Jensen, Managing Director, Ginger Foot Films, Germany |
| Bojana Maljevic, Head of Acquisitions & Programming / Co-Owner, Happy TV, Serbia |
| Caroline Tyre, TELETOON Canada inc., Canada |
| Claudia Schorr, Vice President Sales and Acquisitions, RTL II, Germany |
| Dirk Schweitzer, Executive Vice President Program Acquisitions & Sales, RTL Television GmbH, Germany |
| Domenico Moretti, Managing Director, keitai, Italy |
| Elinor Schops, International business development director, Mobile1, Israel |
| Emma Masoni, Manager Global Acquisitions, Fox International Channels, UK |
| Esther Van Der Brink, Head of Acquitions, SBS Belgium, Belgium |
| Fasahat Aziz, Associate Manager, International Acquisitions, GEO TV Networks, Pakistan |
| Galya Halaui, VP Program Acquisition and International Strategy, Zebra TV Channels: Hop!, Luli and Parents Channel, Israel |
| Gunawan, Program Acquisition Search Section Head, PT.Cakrawala Andalas Televisi (antv), Indonesia |
| Hatice Soysev Kolat, General Manager, Kanal D Romania, Romania |
| Hubert Ornass-Kubacki, Editor in Chief, TVP Historia, Poland |
| Igor Caban, Programming Director, Kabel Plus, s.r.o., Slovakia |
| Ines Nastasoiu, Acquisitions Manager, ACASA TV, Romania |
| Jacques Mathieu, Vice-president, programming, Ztele, Astral Media, Canada |
| Jaime Fontan, Productions' Manager, Aragon Television, Spain |
| Jennifer Tucker, Head of Content IPTV & Entertainment Services, eircom Limited, Ireland |
| Joanna Pogorzelska, Channel Director, PLANETE, Poland |
| Joaquin Garcia, Imagenio, Telefonica of Spain, Spain |
| Johanna Salmela, Acquisition Executive, Finnish Broadcasting Company (YLE Television), Finland |
| Judith Michel, Content Services Sale Manager, XDC, Belgium |
| Laszlo Cselenyi, President, DUNA TV, Hungary |
| Leland Ling, CEO, Beijing Office of LIC Australia, China |
| Liliana Slavova, Program Director, TV2, Bulgaria |
| Lucy Pryke, Acquisitions, Teachers TV, United Kingdom |
| Magdalena Borowska, Documentaries Buyer, Telewizja Polska TVP INFO, Poland |
| Mazen A. Rifka, Head of Acquisition & Rights, Al Jazeera Children's Channel, Qatar |
| Mehmet Demirhan, Head of Acquisitions, KANAL 7 and ULKE TV, Turkey |
| Nicolas Deschamps, Head of Acquisitions department, ARTE France, France |
| Nicole Fortier, 2T3M Television Inc, Canada |
| Nina Lorgen Flemmen, Head of Acquisition, TVNORGE and FEM, Norway |
| Orsetta Violante Balsamo, Head of Acquisitions, Endemol Italia, Italy |
| Preena Bhatia, Head of Acquisitions, JimJam, United Kingdom |
| Rachel Job, Co-productions & Acquisitions Executive, HISTORY TM & Military History, The History Channel, United Kingdom |
| Raquel Benitez, CEO, Comet Entertainment Inc., Canada |
| Ruediger Boess, Senior Vice President, Group Programming Acquisitions, ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG, Germany |
| Rupi Sagoo, Director of Programming, Fox International Channels Asia |
| Sebastian Debertin, Head of Fiction, Acquisition & Coproduction, Der Kinderkanal von ARD und ZDF, Germany |
| Simonetta Polese, Buyer, Project Development, Overcom Srl, Italy |
| Sonja Kokovic, Programming Manager, Vesanima D.O.O, Serbia |
| Sviatlana Ramanchykava, Chief of Acquisition Department, Salmon Distribution, Belarus |
| Tanja Saudet, CEO, Saudet Media, France |
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Viewpoints: acquisitions strategies
Galya Halaui
VP Program Acquisition and International Strategy
Zebra TV Channels: Hop!, Luli and Parents Channel
Israel
What are your acquisition strategies for 2009?
At Zebra TV Channels Ltd., we cover a huge range of genres so it is all about knowing what is available in the market and where to find the best programs.
- For our Parents Channel - available both in Israel, Turkey and Germany- we are focused on acquiring programs that will support the channel as a one-stop resource for parents that provides support and guidance in their daily parenting challenges, and also offers its viewers a sense of belonging to a larger community of parents. We buy content both from the leading studios as well as from independent producers and distributors.
- For our preschool channel, Hop!, which is available both in Israel and Romania as a linear channel as well as SVOD service supported by broadband services we are continuously on the search for high quality programming which will help the channel ensure that children between the ages of 1-7 are exposed to a range of content that is age-appropriate and free of violence, thereby encouraging the development of preschoolers while preserving their innocence. We are looking at classic successful international productions as well as innovative content, which is produced constantly around the world and can be easily dubbed into other languages
- For Luli - the channel for toddlers, which is available in Middle East, Europe and Asia we are looking for educational programming that, provides an outlet for parent-toddler bonding.
What genres are you looking for?
- For Parents Channel, we are on the lookout for documentary and doco-reality type series and specials, which cover a wide spectrum of issues relevant to parenting. The programming should highlight these issues in a generally positive light and from various facets including the psychological, medical and leisure points of view.
- Hop! is searching for the following genres in the preschool arena: slapstick comedies, detective stories, dramas and much more. We acquire all sorts of animation genres (clay, 3D, 2D, stop motion, etc.) as well as puppets and live action series.
- For Luli we're searching for interactive, educational programming in all genres: live action, animation, puppets, etc.
What rights are you looking for?
Besides our basic cable and satellite, pay TV channels VOD services as well as an advanced broadband service, we are currently venturing into the IPTV, Computer Networks and Mobile media.
What products will be in demand during MIPTV 2009?
Programs that can be aired in all media. More and more broadcasters are active in more than one technology and therefore want to be able to offer the same content in different variation to fit the different technologies needs: For example, brands with long episodes for linear channel, with a variation of shorter episodes for cellular - thus supporting these brands in their territory by enabling the end users to enjoy their lovable characters on different media wherever they are.
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