User:Mentalmoses


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About
I grew up in Luanda (Angola), Frankfurt (Germany), Istanbul (Turkey) and Cairo (Egypt) - today my hometown is Berlin (Germany). I have also been studying in the US, Latin America and France...

Mission
I'd like to contribute to wikipedia and share my expertise in the fields of international media industries.

Completed
Just started the article on The Association of Commercial Television in Europe. Happy to receive your feedback :-)

Also started Cable & Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia. Again happy to receive your human feedback ;-)

Now added some valid global TV market data to Television and a couple of other TV related articles :-)

Reviewed International Television Expert Group and cleaned up some articles, wikilinks and redirect issues around Interactive Television.

Now hoping to contribute with an international view and some references to Television program.

Most Successful TV Programs in the World
Despite the crisis in 2009 television viewing has increased in most countries in the world and broke new records, with sport programs attracting the biggest audiences. Beside that, the most successful formats all around the world were series, events and shows. Specifically long running international formats such as the reality show “Strictly Come Dancing”, "Got Talent" or the "Eurovision Song Contest" appear in the Top 10's of many countries, but also local programs like the traditional Swedish “Donald Duck and his friends” or the Portugues documentary “Maddie – a verdade mentira” have reached top ratings. In terms of total audience reach, the most popular gameshows in the world in 2009 were: (1.) Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, (2.) Deal or No Deal, (3.) Wipeout, (4.) Wheel of Fortune, (5.) Family Feud, (6.) Don't Forget The Lyrics, (7.) Hole in the Wall, (8.) Are you smarter than a fith grader?, (9.) Jeopardy! and (10.) I Love My Country.

International TV Format Trading
In the period of 2006 to 2008, 445 TV formats have been traded internationally, with the UK television market leading in terms of the number of exported formats, followed by the USA, the Netherlands, Argentina, Germany, Spain, Australia, France, Japan, Italy, Denmark, Canada and Norway. The total production volume generated by traded formats has grown from €6.4bn (2002–2004) to approximately €9.3bn (2006 – 2008). The Top 10 of the most successfully exported formats (2006-2008) were: (1.) 1 vs. 100, (2.) America's Got Talent, (3.) Are you smarter than a fifth grader?, (4.) Big Brother, (5.) Cash Cab, (6.) Deal or No Deal, (7.) Family Feud, (8.) Hole in the Wall, (9.) Pop Idol and (10.) Power of 10.