7 December 2012
AIB has circulated to its members the latest confidential market intelligence briefing compiled by the organisation.
These regular briefings help inform members’ strategies and provides considerable amounts of background information about trends and developments in broadcasting and electronic media in territories and markets around the world.
All members receive these briefings as part of their membership benefits. To discuss how AIB could help your organisation if it is not currently an AIB member, talk to us.
22 November 2012
The Association for International Broadcasting has today announced that it has appointed Amitabh Srivastava as its regional head in South Asia. This appointment is the first of a series of expansions of AIB’s work in a number of regions of the world.
As regional head, Srivastava (pictured right) will oversee the growth of AIB’s membership in India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Pakistan, countries where there is significant expansion in the number of TV channels and radio stations. Significantly, a growing number of these broadcasters are developing international services.
Srivastava will also be able to assist AIB’s existing members who are seeking to develop their businesses in the South Asia region, drawing on his experience in working for a range of major international brands. He has also developed partnerships between media owners and mobile operators in South Asia.
“I am delighted to welcome Amitabh to AIB,” said Simon Spanswick, AIB chief executive. “He has worked in the media sector in India representing major brands for a number of years and has achieved remarkable successes. Now we look forward to Amitabh leading AIB’s growth in one of the world’s most dynamic and fastest-growing media markets.”
Commenting on his appointment, Amitabh Srivastava said “It is great to be joining the world’s leading industry association and supporting major international TV and radio broadcasters as well as service providers. I am looking forward to developing AIB’s membership base in South Asia and to involving more broadcasters from this region in global conversations.”
Amitabh Srivastava joins AIB from Radio Netherlands Worldwide where he was country manager. While at RNW, he developed the first partnership between All India Radio and an international broadcaster, and achieved significant rebroadcasting and content syndication deals with commercial FM stations and new media platforms in the region. Before RNW, Srivastava worked with Walt Disney, BBC, MTV and a range of other international media houses developing their operations in India andSouth Asia.
3 October 2012
AIB has published its latest industry briefing, covering programming, distribution, people and more.
More than 26,000 subscribers receive the briefing – see the latest version here.
28 September 2012
The shortlist of entries in the 2012 AIBs, the international media excellence awards, has been announced.
“The shortlist has been even more challenging to compile this year,” says Simon Spanswick, AIB chief executive. “We received more entries from more organisations than ever, and most were of an extremely high standard. This made selecting the finalists for the 2012 AIBs extremely difficult. Some hard decisions were made, and now it is up to our global panel of judges to deliver the names of the winners in this year’s competition.”
The international panel of judges includes programme makers, journalists, editors, producers and executives across every continent – full details of all the judges are here. Over the coming four weeks, they will be evaluating and reviewing entries and submitting their results in time for the annual gala evening on Wednesday 7 November.
“This year, the judges are receiving the entries electronically,” says Spanswick. “For the first time, we have done away with the need to ship DVDs, audio CDs and accompanying paperwork around the world by courier. Instead, all the material is online for judges to watch or download at their leisure. It makes these awards a little bit greener.”
The gala awards evening in London will be hosted this year by Evgenia Altfeld, a presenter/producer at RTG TV in Russia. Evgenia has worked in TV news in Russia before becoming a political spokesman in the St Petersburg region. She joined RTG TV in 2011 and now produces and presents a range of programmes for the Russian travel channel.
To reserve places at the 2012 AIBs, visit the AIBs page on this site, or download the booking form here.
The 2012 AIBs are sponsored by Eurosport and RTG TV.
14 September 2012
An important part of the work that the AIB carries out for its members is helping understand and tackle regulatory challenges for international TV and radio broadcasters as they operate in different countries.
Recently, the AIB published market intelligence on concerns raised by recent regulation in Vietnam and Brazil.
Although this report was initially published exclusively to members, you can now read it by going to this page.
After it was published, members fed back their comments to the AIB who prepared a position paper on the situation in Vietnam and have now started discussions with the Vietnamese authorities to represent the views of their members.
23 August 2012
AIB and Wimbledon are jointly organising a major Post-Olympic Broadcast Briefing on Friday 12 October.
This high-level, invitation-only event will examine the way broadcasters around the world covered London 2012 and how the lessons learnt can be used for coverage of live sports in the future.
Full information here.
