Video Age International March-April 2009

Palm Plus (Netherlands): TV production Socal Club Productions (Denmark): TV comedies and film production Broadcasters (Finland): TV production Mastiff Media (Poland): TV production Zodiak Vostok (Russia): Film and TV production. It owns: – TeleAlliance Media Group (Russia and Belarus) – Dixie Media (Russia) – Mastiff Ukraine (Ukraine) – YS Films (Ukraine) – Sol (India): TV production Adventure Line Productions: Entertainment, game shows Marathon International: Content distribution KM Production: Documentaries, entertainment MA R C H/ AP R I L 2 0 0 9 (Continued from Page 48) Pellicioli’s Overnight Success The L.A. Screenings ’09 Are Comin’… …andVideoAge is ready! As it has been since it started actively covering the event in 1989. In 1990, and for several years thereafter, VideoAge was the only TV trade magazine with special editions for the L.A. Screenings. During the last 20 years of the L.A. Screenings’ 44 years, VideoAge has remained the key tool for buyers and sellers alike. For L.A. Screenings VideoAge will be offering the following editorial vehicles: 1) Latin America TV Edition (with a section in Spanish) 2) Its unique L.A. Screenings Guide (complete with pilots, buyers’ list, distributors, hotel suites and studio info). Plus: • VideoAge is the only publication that can guarantee that all buyers will receive its publications in their hotel rooms. •VideoAgewill have its information desks, prepare the information boards and sponsor its traditional breakfast meeting. • VideoAge will offer multiple avenues, both in print and online, to give advertisers’ new product the highest visibility. The “Wiev from Howland Canal” is from a watercolor painting by Shelley Lazarus. For more information, please visit VideoAge’s dedicated website at: www.videoageinternational.com/screenings.html Vincent Chalvon-Demersay, CEO, Marathon Media Group and svp, Animation, Zodiak Entertainment De Agostini Communications also owns: – Cattleya Film andTV Production. Based in Rome, it was founded in 1997 by Riccardo Tozzi. It 2000 De Agostini acquired a minority share. CEO is Giovanni Stabilini. –Mikado Film (film production and Italian distribution company) was founded in 1984 by Roberto Cicutto and Luigi Musini. Key offices are in Rome and Milan. It was fully acquired by De Agostini in 2007 (in 2002 it had acquired a share). CEO is Alessandro Usai. – Grupo Antena 3 is a private TV network in Spain. Based in Madrid it was founded in 1998 by a group of four companies. It started regular broadcasting in 1990. A publicly traded group, its CEO is Silvio Gonzales Moreno. In 2003 Grupo Planeta De Agostini acquired 44.58 percent of Grupo Antena3. – Grupo Planeta De Agostini is a 50-50 joint venture between the Barcelona-based Planeta Corporation and De Agostini Communications S.A. (a Luxembourg-based company owned by Novara-based De Agostini Communications S.p.A.). President of Grupo Planeta De Agostini is Jose Manuel Lara Bosch (president of Planeta), vp is Marco Drago (chairman, De Agostini Holdings). Grupo Antena 3 owns: Onda Cero (radio stations) Movierecord (advertising in cinemas) A3Multimedia (Internet, mobileTV) Marathon Group Marathon Group was founded in 1990 in France by Pascal Breton, who is the company’s CEO and svp, Fiction (drama), of Zodiak Entertainment. De Agostini Communications acquired 100 percent of the group in 2007. Based in Paris it controls France’s: Marathon Fiction: Drama series Marathon Media: Animation Télé Images: Drama

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