Sessions To Illuminate New Apps for Traditional Programming Along With Insider Tips On Selling Your Digital Creations

LOS ANGELES, CA, January 5, 2009 – For the first time, the National Association of Television Program Executives (NATPE), will present content panels at this week’s MacWorld Conference & Expo in San Francisco. The sessions will offer a first look at never-before-seen interactive mobile video technologies, present the ways in which traditional programming content is being customized for the iPhone and competing mobile platforms and explore the options available to content creators in new media.

NATPE President and CEO Rick Feldman notes, “NATPE is dedicated to celebrating and monetizing great professional video content. MacWorld is a wonderful platform for us to highlight how content and distribution can best work together to serve consumer needs.”

NATPE new media advisor Arthur Greenwald, President, Greenwald Media, and Contributing Editor, TVNEWSDAY, is producing the panels and will serve as moderator.

Panel one, NATPE at MacWorld: TV, Mobile TV and the iPhone, will look at how familiar television shows are expanding their audiences by making innovative use of customized iPhone applications as well as new and emerging handheld video devices and platforms.

The second NATPE presentation, So You Want To Sell Your Idea to Television?, features experts in developing   content and technology partnerships who will discuss the best way to approach studios, networks, and syndicators along with advice on digital rights management.

The NATPE at MacWorld: TV, Mobile TV and the iPhone session is on Wednesday, January 7, at 11am to 12:15pm.  Panelists include Kanishka Agarwal, VP of Mobile Media, Nielsen Mobile; Kelly Liang,  Senior Director of Business Development, YouTube; Ted Malone, VP Product Marketing, Sling Media; Sam Methany, General Manager, News Over Wireless, WRAL-TV, Raleigh, NC; and Cyriac Roeding, Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers (backers of the iFund).

The So You Want to Sell Your Idea to Television? panel is scheduled for Wednesday, January 7, from 6:30pm to 7:30pm.  Speakers include Gannon Hall, Chief Marketing Officer, Kyte; Sam Methany, General Manager, News Over Wireless, WRAL-TV, Raleigh, NC; Tom Smuts, Co-Founder of United Hollywood's Founder Media Group and Television writer, producer, director; and Daisy Whitney, Contributing Writer/TVWeek and Host of New Media Minute (TV Week, ABCNews.com).

NATPE is a global, nonprofit organization dedicated to the creation, development and distribution of televised programming in all forms across all mature and emerging media platforms.

NATPE develops and nurtures opportunities, both commercial and educational, for buying, selling and sharing of content and ideas. For more information link to www.natpemarket.com.

The 2009 NATPE Market & Conference is being held January 26-29, 2009, at the Mandalay Bay Resort in Las Vegas.

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CONTACTS:
Paul Nichols/Christine Dinh
The Lippin Group/LA
323/965-1990

Leading Global Programming, Advertising and New Media Figures to Tackle the Issues and Solutions of Monetizing the Digital World

LOS ANGELES, December 9, 2008  – Monetizing the convergence of programming, advertising and emerging media will be the focus of  the 2009 National Association of Television Program Executives (NATPE) Market & Conference being held January  26 - 29 at the Mandalay Bay Resort in Las Vegas, it was announced today by Rick Feldman, NATPE President and Chief Executive Officer and Kevin Beggs, President, Programming and Production, Lionsgate and NATPE Co-Chair.  The 2009 NATPE Market & Conference theme is “Content – Commerce - Connections,” reflecting NATPE’s stature as the world’s preeminent digital content market.

Dozens of panels and sessions will illuminate the rapidly changing landscape of programming, advertising and new media along with opportunities for new revenues. Participants will include Shari Barnett, Microsoft TV; Thom Beers, Original Productions; Andy Bird, Walt Disney International; Paul Buccieri, Granada America; Chris Coelen, RDF USA; Michael Davies, Embassy Row; Tony DiSanto, MTV; Vicki Dummer, ABC Entertainment; John Ferriter, William Morris Agency; Cecile Frot-Coutaz, FremantleMedia; David Goldberg, Endemol USA; Irwin Gotlieb, GroupM; Chris Grant, Reveille LLC; Peter Guber, Mandalay Entertainment; Jordan Hoffner, YouTube; Mark Itkin, William Morris Agency; Andy Kaplan, Sony Pictures Television International; John Langley, Twentieth Television; Gary Lico, CABLEready Corporation; David Lyle, Fox Cable Networks; Gary Newman and Dana Walden, Twentieth Century Fox Television; Sean Perry, Endeavor Talent Agency; Douglas Scott, Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide; Donna Speciale, MediaVest Worldwide; Barry Wallach, NBC Universal Domestic Television Distribution; Ken Werner, Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution;; Michael Wright, Turner Entertainment Networks;  Strauss Zelnick, ZelnickMedia and many others, in addition to the previously announced keynote address by Jon Feltheimer, Lionsgate, and the newsmaker address by Tom Rogers, TIVO.

The recipients of the 2009 NATPE Brandon Tartikoff Legacy Award - Chuck Lorre, Tyler Perry, Ben Silverman and Anne Sweeney – will take part in one-on-one interviews Tuesday morning.

“The caliber and diversity of our speakers and panelists send a clear message that NATPE is more important than ever to the leaders in all areas of the global content business,” commented Mr. Feldman. “There has never been a time when the need to maintain a sharp focus on both the short and long-term challenges of our business has been more important. The value of NATPE continues to grow.”

Mr. Beggs added, “Quite simply, participating in NATPE is the most efficient way to do business. Companies need to find ways to generate revenue, connect with people and exchange ideas. NATPE is the premier content marketplace and forum to achieve these goals.”

Buyers from 50 countries spanning all continents will attend along with every major U.S. studio, network and production company.

NATPE 2009 debuts a series of unique original demonstrations of new digital and mobile video technologies --- exciting new tools designed to enhance television production, distribution and marketing. These demos will not merely debut at the NATPE conference; they were made possible by NATPE, which served as the matchmaker between the technology companies and content creators.

Participating companies include MobiTV, NOKIA, Kyte Media, Image Metrics Animation, Loopt.Com, Tapioca Wireless, CityVoter.Com and several others.

New to the exhibit floor, along with the previously announced NATPE Power Lunch Restaurant & Café, is the NATPE Celebrity Test Kitchen. Top chefs will participate in cooking demonstrations, book signings, wine and food tastings and audience Q&A. The Celebrity Test Kitchen will be hosted by Evan Kleiman, who hosts KCRW’s “Good Food” and owns the popular Los Angeles restaurant, Angeli. There’ll also be a B2B business lounge for meetings.

NATPE is a global, nonprofit organization dedicated to the creation, development and distribution of televised programming in all forms across all mature and emerging media platforms.

NATPE develops and nurtures opportunities, both commercial and educational, for buying, selling and sharing of content and ideas. For more information link to www.natpemarket.com.

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CONTACTS:
Paul Nichols/Christine Dinh
The Lippin Group/LA
323/965-1990

LOS ANGELES, November 17, 2008 – Tom Rogers, President and CEO of TiVo Inc., will deliver the NATPE 2009 Newsmaker Address at the association’s annual Market & Conference, it was announced by Rick Feldman, NATPE’s President and CEO. Mr. Rogers will speak on Wednesday, January 28 at 9 a.m.

In his address, entitled “Avoiding the Demise of Advertising,” Mr. Rogers will examine the serious commercial avoidance issue that will create an overwhelming challenge to the economics of the television industry.

“Yes” according to a national survey released today by NATPE and E-Poll Market Research.

LOS ANGELES, CA (October 22, 2008) - In a joint study conducted by NATPE and E-Poll Market Research, consumers say they will cut back on eating out, shopping, and vacations before they’ll give up entertainment expenses such as cable/satellite service, DVD rentals and going out to a movie.

When asked what they’ll be doing more of, the survey of 2,806 adults cited “staying home,” “watching television,” “visiting video web sites,” and “watching DVD movies” as their top choices during these tough times.

President & CEO Rick Feldman Signs New Multi-Year Agreement

Lionsgate Co-Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Jon Feltheimer to Keynote Conference

Program Presented in Collaboration with the Walter Kaitz Foundation Offers Career Development to Emerging Television and Video Content Creators

Paris/Los Angeles, July 03, 2008 - 3 July – Leading Central and Eastern European content market DISCOP EAST, which took place from 18-20 June at the Sofitel Atrium Hotel in Budapest, today reported a hugely successful event with attendees and exhibiting companies significantly up on previous years, it was announced today by Patrick Jucaud, General Manager, DISCOP and Rick Feldman, President and CEO, NATPE, DISCOP’s joint partner.