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Distribution Tune-up

Everyone in the non-fiction field has been feeling the squeeze of shrinking budgets, including distributors. By all accounts, broadcasters generally have less money for program acquisitions, resulting in reduced revenues for distribs (and producers) from finished product. This being the case, program sellers are having to come up with alternative strategies to stay in the game. One of these tactics, as revealed by the Factual Price Guide survey, is to put more energy into cobbling together funding on the front-end.

March 1, 2003

Everyone in the non-fiction field has been feeling the squeeze of shrinking budgets, including distributors. By all accounts, broadcasters generally have less money for program acquisitions, resulting in reduced revenues for distribs (and producers) from finished product. This being the case, program sellers are having to come up with alternative strategies to stay in the game. One of these tactics, as revealed by the Factual Price Guide survey, is to put more energy into cobbling together funding on the front-end.