Brits still wear crown in exporting formats

August 21, 2008 The report, released Thursday, studied the consumption patterns of the top 45 broadcast channels in the eight biggest television markets and found that the U.K. accounted for 53% of all exported format hours in the worldwide market last year, compared with just 14% from the U.S. and 18% from the Netherlands. [...] the U.S. continued to dominate the overall television export market, which also included sales of finished programming, accounting for 67% of the global program sales market, with the U.K. in second place with 13.1% of the market. In terms of finished program sales, the U.S. remains even more dominant, accounting for 76% of the global market, while the U.K. came in a minor second with 7% and Germany finished third with 4%.

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