BANFF 2018: How international TV executives are trying to find the right value equation

By Bill Roberts

BANFF – While competition for intellectual property, talent, eyeballs, and dollars has never been fiercer, those same friction points have been nudging new collaborations around piracy, co-production models and complex monetization gambits according to the Banff Media Festival’s panel of international TV executives speaking a the beautiful Banff Springs Hotel.David Zitzerman (partner at Goodmans LLP) moderated a panel of major company leaders that included: Sean Cohan (president, international and digital media, A&E Networks), Chris Linn (president, and head of programming, TruTV), Avi Armoza (CEO, Armoza Formats), Jeffrey Hirsch (COO, Starz), and my very favourite Barb Williams (VP and COO, Corus...