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X Factor’s Cowell to get Mipcom honour

Music mogul and X Factor creator Simon Cowell is to receive this year’s Mipcom 2014 Personality of the Year award.

The talent show judge and exec, who heads music, film and TV prodco Syco Entertainment, will receive his gong at a gala dinner for industry execs at the Carlton Hotel in Cannes on Tuesday, October 14.

A day earlier, he will give a keynote interview at the Grand Auditorium of the Palais des Festivals.

Syco produces the X-Factor and Got Talent format franchises, the latter of which has now been produced in 62 territories, while X-Factor is in 49.

Cowell, who is set to return to the UK version of the X Factor later this year, joins 21st Century Fox’s James Murdoch and Sony Pictures Television president Steve Mosko as the other high-profile names speaking in Cannes.

He follows Disney-ABC president Anne Sweeney and DreamWorks Animation CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg in receiving the award.

Meanwhile, David Stapf, president of CBS Television Studios, and Armando Nuñez, president and CEO of CBS Global Distribution Group, will deliver a joint keynote address as part of Mipcom’s Media Mastermind Keynote Series.

The CBS Studios Global Content Keynote is scheduled for Tuesday, October 14.

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