Brunico Communications has closed its U.S. tv occasions operations, together with NAPTE and its Kidscreen and Realscreen summits.
“This choice was fastidiously thought of and comes on account of market consolidation that continues to progress and have structural impacts on the content material manufacturing sector,” Russell Goldstein, president and CEO of Toronto-based Brunico, mentioned Tuesday. The transfer follows NATPE, a historic commerce present, and the Realscreen TV Conferences and Markets final consolidated right into a single occasion in Miami in February 2026.
Kidscreen and Realscreen will proceed as youngsters’s and unscripted content material publications, respectively. With the conclusion of the occasions in america, Claire Macdonald, basic director of NATPE, and Jocelyn Christie, writer of Kidscreen, will depart Brunico.
Napte in Miami returned in 2024 after Brunico, which additionally manages the Banff World Media Competition, acquired the property of the Nationwide Affiliation of Tv Program Executives. The acquisition follows NAPTE submitting for chapter in October 2022 after hitting a monetary wall because of compelled cancellations of the 2021 and 2022 U.S. tv markets amid the pandemic.
The return of NAPTE International, the flagship U.S. tv market in 2024, additionally coincided with the upheaval of the tv trade by the 2 Hollywood strikes of 2023, the emergence of streaming platforms and the acceleration of wire reducing.
This disruption sparked a brand new wave of trade consolidation as main studios balanced costly streaming platforms by making up for linear TV losses. Earlier than buying the working rights to the Banff World Media Competition in 2016, Brunico led the Realscreen Summit and Kidscreen Summit conferences whereas managing markets and conferences in america and all over the world.