TTVNews celebrates its first 20 years, inviting friends and industry colleagues to share their personal experiences over the past two decades. Ana Langenberg, Senior Vice President Format Distribution & Production at NBCUniversal Media, answers “where were you 20 years ago?”
This 2024 marks the 20th anniversary of TTVNews, a big reason to celebrate for the group which is consolidating itself as one of the go-to media platforms in the audiovisual industry in Latin America.
And to mark the occasion, we’ve invited friends and colleagues to share their experiences, challenges and lessons learned over the last 20 years in this industry.
This time, Ana Langenberg, Senior Vice President Format Distribution & Production at NBCUniversal Media, answers “where were you 20 years ago?”
Where were you 20 years ago?
Twenty years ago, where was I? 20 years ago, I was living in the Netherlands, and I was working as a sales section for Endemol, selling the Endemol catalog at the time. I was living in a very small village at the time, but I was working in this industry, so it was amazing to have that contrast of being living in this small place.
I probably didn’t know yet, but I was going to be pregnant with my child soon and still traveling. I remember I came to Natpe that year, January 2004, in Las Vegas, because it was in Las Vegas for ten years, so I went there for all those ten years, yeah, so I remember that well.
Was Natpe your first event?
No, my first event was Mipcom 1998, so I had just joined a company that was a British company that was selling formats, and I was a marketing assistant that was my job at the time. My boss said, you take this job, it’s gonna be great because you’re going to Cannes and you’re going to meet everybody in this industry, and it’s gonna be amazing, and I had no idea what to expect and ended up in this stand which was this big as well but in the bunker of the Palais, that was my first one in the times.
I used to travel with VHS tapes to show off formats and I used to book all our meetings via fax.
