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Armoza Formats brings new formats to the Ukrainian Content Market and Format Show conference

24 July 2012, 15:57

The largest Israeli format developer Armoza Formats will take part in KYIV MEDIA WEEK for the second consecutive year. Last year the company’s founder and CEO Avi Armoza was one of the speakers at the Format Show conference. This year new popular formats from Armoza will be presented at the Ukrainian Content Market and during the Format Show.

Ukrainian market and the markets of CIS are rapidly developing and drawing great interest of the leading international format distributors: for example, in 2011 Armoza Formats for the first time signed a deal with Russian TV-channel СТС. The TV channel acquired rights to adapt Comedians at Work, which is broadcasted in Israel for the 7th consecutive season, and earlier was also adapted in Germany and Norway. MTV Russia acquired rights for the format Foreplay. Several other titles of Armoza Formats were acquired by Ukrainian TV channels: in 2010 1+1 channel signed a deal for reality show Connected, wheal in 2011 STB signed up to make the local version of Till Our Parents Do Us Part and With This Ring. 1+1 channel is adapting for Ukrainian audience two new series from Armoza Formats: Shall We Kiss and Wedding Daze. Shall We Kiss was earlier adapted for the Central Europe by HBO.

Participation in KYIV MEDIA WEEK of such a big player in the media business for the second consecutive year is a sign of the forum’s growing significance and interest in it on the international media market.

International forum KYIV MEDIA WEEK will be held on September 11 – 14, 2012 in the Radisson Blu hotel in Kyiv.

In the course of KYIV MEDIA WEEK the following events will be held:

11.09.12 International conference and screening of new TV formats – Format Show

12-14.09.12 International audiovisual content market – Ukrainian Content Market

12.09.12 International B2B conference - Film Business

13.09.12 International B2B conference - Television as Business

14.09.12 International forum - Digital Broadcasting

Register and join top market players, keep abreast of all the latest events in the international media community together with KYIV MEDIA WEEK.