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Entertainment Law Terms and Definitions

 
 

Talent
Primarily refers to actors used in advertising. Can also refer to voice performers, musicians, etc.

Arbitron
A broadcast rating service for television and radio that uses both a viewer diary method and an electronic recording and tabulating system to measure audience size and characteristics.

Audience Segmentation
The process of dividing up or grouping a target audience based on common characteristics related to behaviors or predictors of behavior, such as geographic region, demographics, psychographics, and product usage. Audience segmentation helps to target media messages and key strategies.

Beta (also called Beta SP) Videotape
The videotape format most widely used for television broadcast and high quality video production. Digibeta is a newer digital form of Beta tape that is increasingly being used.

Bleed
Printing to the edge of the page, leaving no margin.

Usage Limitations
Restrictions on the placement of a commercial (e.g., PSA use only).

Proof
A copy of an advertisement as it will appear once produced or printed.

Camera Ready
An ad, art, copy text or graphic ready for inclusion in publications.

Rate Card
A card issued by an advertising medium listing its rates, requirements, and information needed from the advertiser.

Advertising
Delivery of a persuasive message about a product, service, or idea to a large group of people at a single time through the use of mass media.

 

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Talent is a factor in entertainment
The general term for an artistic contributor to a project, talent usually refers to actors, directors, and writers. In the studio world, atttaching talent, or bringing necessary key artists to a project, is necessary in getting the film made. Agencies usually reserve the term 'talent' for actors and classify talent agents as those who represent thesipians.

 


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Media Plan or Media Buy Plan

Definition:
A part of the communications plan that details how various media will be employed. Identifies the specific schedule of paid placements that have been negotiated for an ad or collection of ads, including the times and programs during which television and radio ads will run, the locations and sizes of billboards that will be placed, the publications and placement within those publications in which print ads will run, etc.

Kill Date

Definition:
The expiration date of advertising materials. Kill dates notify media outlets that an advertisement should not be broadcast or placed after that date.

Management Company

Definition:
The umbrella under which a group of managers function as a single incorporated entity. Long known for small client lists and focused attention on development of clients, management companies, in the last decade, have, in most cases, shifted their role in the market. Today, most management companies perform dually as client representation and producer.

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