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This Business of Television: The Ultimate Reference Guide to the Television and Video Industries for Producers, Directors, Writers, Performers, Agents and Executives - Hardcover

Blumenthal, Howard J.; Goodenough, Oliver R.

 
9780823077045: This Business of Television: The Ultimate Reference Guide to the Television and Video Industries for Producers, Directors, Writers, Performers, Agents and Executives

Synopsis

Provides information on distribution, systems, regulations, copyright, program development, advertising, and legal and business affairs

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About the Author

HOWARD J. BLUMENTHAL has been a producer, creative consultant, teacher, and journalist. He developed and served as senior producer for the Peabody and Emmy Award-winning PBS series, Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego, and served as creative or marketing consultant for MTV, the Cartoon Network, and various advertising agencies. He has produced hundreds of hours of programming, including game shows, talk shows, dramas, and children's programming. In addition, he is the author of over twenty books, including the CD Listener's Guide series (Billboard Books). OLIVER R. GOODENOUGH has been in legal practice for over 25 years, specializing in both entertainment and communications law as well as in corporate and business law. A professor at the Vermont Law School, he has also held academic appointments as a Visiting Scholar at Cambridge University and as a lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania Law School.

Synopsis

This revised guide to the television industry has been completely reviewed since the 1991 edition to provide an accurate, up-to-date picture of the television industry in the late 1990s. Covering programming, distribution, production and regulation both in US and international television, it is designed for anyone interested in the workings of the industry. The sample contracts and legal documents that had formed the appendices of the first edition are included on a bound-in computer disk.

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