JUNIOR@MIPTV OPENS WINDOW ON the FUTURE OF KIDS ENTERTAINMENT

Paris, 31 March 2015 - MIPTV today announces an exciting line-up for the second edition of Junior@MIPTV, a one-day focus offering a new window on the future of kids' entertainment. Junior@MIPTV will take place on Tuesday 14 April.

With over 1,000 kids' programming buyers at MIPTV, the event will bring together key decision-makers to share their perspectives and strategies on developing kids' content and brands effectively across multiple platforms.

This focus, Junior@MIPTV, is split into showcases from broadcasters and platforms, off-stage events and matchmaking sessions. Highlights include MIPTV's first Kids Public Broadcasters Breakfast, which will kick off the Junior@MIPTV programme. Some of the world's most influential executives in children's programming will discuss with their peers the biggest challenges for public service broadcasters.

Back for a second edition, The Future of Kids' TV Summit is welcoming 100 decision-makers from the sector, a unique opportunity to be inspired by a carefully curated group of visionary speakers and to network with some of the best. This edition's exclusive line-up brings to the stage Malik Ducard, Global Head of Family and Learning, YouTube; Fred Seibert, the first Creative Director of MTV and the last President of Hanna-Barbera Cartoons; Paul Nunn, Managing Director, Outfit7 Brit Limited; and Deirdre Brennan, Controller, Children's Content, ABC Australia.

Two conferences are scheduled on the themes The Kids' Channels Talk and Playing the Digital Transformation, which will bring together broadcasters, producers and digital players. They will unveil their editorial strategies and coproduction initiatives, and share their perspectives on the future of production, commissioning, funding and extension of kids' programming.

Then, as part of the MIP Digital Fronts programme, Awesomeness TV Founder Brian Robbins & Star Vlogger Meg DeAngelis, take the stage on Wednesday 15 April for the first ever MIP Digital Screening dedicated to Kids' programming, showcasing some of the best in children's original online video.

Children are on the frontline in the mutation affecting traditional TV, and their viewing habits presage the TV landscape of tomorrow, as they travel back and forth across multiple digital experiences, expecting new and original content everywhere they go. Junior@MIPTV will outline what the expectations of today's kids are, and explore how both linear broadcasters and online platforms can grab young viewers' attention, said Laurine Garaude, Director of Reed MIDEM's Television Division.

Read HERE the exclusive report on The Business of Children's Content

(IHS Technology report)

About MIPTV MIPTV is the world's biggest TV and digital content market powering the unlimited potential of extraordinary stories. In April, professionals from across the TV and digital entertainment ecosystem gather in Cannes, France, to forge partnerships, seal distribution deals, network with their international executive peers, and attend high-level conferences and keynotes. MIPTV is also a key venue for early-stage development and financing deals, content acquisitions and programme sales. And with the MIP Digital Fronts the premier global digital content market empowering the new digital content era and bringing together the new online video ecosystem with the TV industry, MIPTV anticipates and shapes the future of entertainment.

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