The Business of Television - Softcover

Basin, Ken

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1032012986 ISBN 13: 9781032012988

Publisher: Routledge, 2024

Synopsis

In this expanded and updated second edition, esteemed television executive and Harvard lecturer Ken Basin offers a comprehensive and readable overview of the business, financial, and legal structure of the U.S. television industry, as well as its deal-making norms.

The Business of Television explores the basic structure and recent history of the television and streaming business, rights and talent negotiations, intellectual property, backend deals, licensing, international production, and much more. This expanded and updated second edition also features an in-depth exploration of the evolution of the streaming business, offers valuable new insights about negotiation, reflects the historic impacts of the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic and 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes, addresses the intersection of artificial intelligence technology and intellectual property law, and provides a greater breadth and depth of technical material about a wide variety of common television deals. The book also includes breakdowns after each chapter summarizing major deal terms and points of negotiation, a significantly expanded glossary, an extensive list of referenced articles and cases, and a wealth of real-world examples to help readers put the material into context.

Written for a diverse audience of working or aspiring creative professionals, executives, agents, managers, lawyers, and students, The Business of Television is the definitive reference guide for the ever-changing television industry.

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About the Author

Ken Basin is a veteran business affairs and operations executive, recognized as a thought leader in dealmaking for original content development, production, and licensing across senior executive roles at Paramount Television Studios, Sony Pictures Television, and Amazon Studios.  Recognized by Variety as one of "Hollywood's New Leaders" and by The Hollywood Reporter in its annual "35 Under 35" feature, Ken most recently worked at Riot Games, where he helped launch Riot's in-house film and TV content studio (leading all business and production operations) and executive produced the second season of the Emmy Award-winning Arcane.  Ken is also an adjunct professor at Harvard Law School, and his writing has appeared in Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, Puck, and The Ankler, as well as several scholarly legal journals.  He is best known as the author of The Business of Television, the leading reference text for the television and streaming industries (referred to by many practitioners as "the bible of the TV business"), whose long-awaited second edition was published in September 2024.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1032012986
• ISBN 13: 9781032012988
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 646