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Article: Format trade show balances needs.(Brief Article)
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- Video Age International
- Article date:
- February 1, 2002
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The first annual formats conference was held February 6th-8th at the Dom Pedro Hotel in Lisbon, Portugal. Staged by DISCOP, a Paris-based international television events organization, the three-day forum targeted international television format producers and distributors looking to license their original concepts to emerging television marketplaces in central and eastern Europe, Russia, central Asia, China and the Middle East.
"Buyers in countries like the Ukraine, the Baltic States and Vietnam are not represented at larger international television conferences like MIP or NATPE, because they simply cannot afford to attend them," said Patrick Jucaud, DISCOP's ...