Explore Syndication’s Changing Business Model At Programming Everywhere

Exclusivity, streaming rights and the quest for profitable programming are high on the list of challenges facing the relationship between syndicated program producer/distributors and TV station groups. Industry leaders working to resolve these issues and find new opportunities for successful shows will share their perspectives in a panel, Syndication’s Changing Business Model, at TVNewsCheck’s Programming Everywhere: The Content Event for Linear, Streaming and Syndication, at the NAB Show on April 16.

Panelists include Frank Cicha, EVP programming, Fox Television Stations; Mort Marcus, co-president, Debmar-Mercury; Dave Howitt, SVP of programming, Sinclair Broadcast Group; Jeffrey Wolf, chief distribution officer, The E.W. Scripps Co.; and Zack Hernandez, SVP & general sales manager, U.S. Syndication Sales, Sony Pictures Television TVNewsCheck Contributing Editor Paige Albiniak will moderate the 11 a.m. PT panel at the Encore Hotel in Las Vegas.

“The syndication business has seen tectonic changes, and there’s no one better to chart what they mean and what’s likely to come next than Frank, Mort, Dave, Jeffrey and Zack,” said Michael Depp, NewsCheckMedia chief content officer and TVNewsCheck editor. “This discussion will burrow right into where streaming has dramatically disrupted syndication but also opened up new opportunities, and where content providers should be calibrating their offerings to rapidly evolving station group needs.”

Programming Everywhere gathers industry leaders to talk about the evolving business of content creation and distribution, with a focus on new development, reinventing local and national news and extending media brands on streaming.

TV station group senior executives will join programming, news and marketing leaders, syndicated programming executives and streaming media and technology leaders to take on issues such as the changing economics of syndicated programming, the relationship between FAST channels and the evolution of broadcasting, transforming television news and strategies for creating a programming everywhere business.

Participants will also consider their No. 1 challenge: creating more content for a multimedia audience, and how technologies like artificial intelligence, the cloud and IP production platforms can free up creative talent while streamlining costs.

Register here for Programming Everywhere.