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Formats business worth $13.5bn MIPCOM NEWS: Trade in international television formats has generated productions worth around €9.3bn (US$13.5bn), according to a report from the Format Recognition and Protection Association (FRAPA).  Launched in Cannes, FRAPA Report 2009 - TV Formats to the World says the volume of production on the back of traded formats mushroomed into a €9.3bn industry during 2006-08, up 45% since the organisation's first report charted the sector's activity between 2002 and 2004. A total of 445 original formats were adapted abroad during 2006-08, almost twice as many as 2002-04. Ute Biernat, chairman of FRAPA and CEO of Grundy Light Entertainment, said this made "the relevance of the protection of format rights more and more obvious." The new report, which focuses on Argentina, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, The Netherlands, Spain, the UK, US, Denmark, Norway and Sweden, shows that the UK tops the format export table, followed by the US, the Netherlands and Argentina. However, it also reveals significant improvements to format businesses in other countries, such as Germany, Spain and Italy, with even self-sufficient countries such as Japan now more disposed towards the format trade. David Lyle, a FRAPA board member and president of Fox Reality Channel, described the report as a "world almanac" of the format business. "It has both a global overview of the size and scope of the business, in terms of which sorts of formats are earning the big bucks, and a detailed local view of the evolving opportunities in each of the major territories," he said. The FRAPA report was compiled in association with the global TV research agency The WIT and international programme research outfit TV Sisters, and is available on the FRAPA website, here. Gün Akyuz 7 Oct 2009 © C21 Media 2009 
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