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Learn About the US TV Program Production and Distribution Industry With This Comprehensive Report

Posted on: Friday, 28 September 2007, 06:00 CDT

Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c69889 has announced the addition of "DirecTV Group, Inc.- Competitor Insight 2007" to their offering.

Covering over 175 industries and updated every 90 days, these Industry Profiles do the "heavy lifting" for you -- saving your sales team valuable research time, enhancing client communications and giving you the competitive edge to win more business.

Easy-to-use and up-to-date, the Industry Profiles provide you with the industry research necessary to stay on top of constant changes in select industries.

This profile helps target your products and services directly to prospects. The Industry Profiles provide the information and understanding you need to engage new prospects during the sales process, deepen customer relationships and strengthen your own bottom line.

Brief Excerpt from Industry Overview Chapter:

The US TV program production and distribution industry includes about 500 companies with combined annual revenue of $13 billion. Major companies are NBC Universal, CBS Paramount, Disney-ABC, Fox Television Studios, Warner Bros Television Group, and Sony Pictures Television. Companies that mainly produce and distribute movies derive on average about 30 percent of revenue from TV programs, dominating this industry. As a result, the industry is highly concentrated: the 50 largest companies account for about 80 percent of industry revenue. Most firms, however, are small, privately held production companies.

This industry does not include broadcasting or the production and distribution of TV sets.

COMPETITIVE LANDSCAPE

Consumer leisure activity and the general economy drive demand. The profitability of individual companies depends on the marketability of products, mainly their potential to attract advertising revenue for TV networks. Large companies have advantages in financing, distribution, on-staff creative and technical talent, and multiple-year contracts with key performers and directors of popular programs. Small companies can compete successfully by focusing on special topics, niche audiences, or non-mainstream TV channels. Production work is labour intensive, resulting in average annual industry revenue of about $200,000 per employee, although a typical small company earns about $70,000 per worker.

PRODUCTS, OPERATIONS & TECHNOLOGY

Major products and services are the production and distribution of TV programs, commercials, and related products, like DVDs. Program production types (genres) include TV movies; dramas; situational comedies (sitcoms); reality, game, ...

Contents:

Industry Overview

Quarterly Industry Update

Business Challenges

Trends AND Opportunities

Call Preparation Questions

Financial Information

Industry Forecast

Website and Media Links

Glossary of Acronyms

For more information visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c69889


Source: Business Wire

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