Company Profile
Dori Media Group (DMG) is active in the international television market, specializing in the various business aspects of the Telenovela genre.
The Group's business model focuses on a number of distinct but complementary businesses, each generating income independently: producing and distributing Telenovela; operating television channels; and selling related merchandise, thus creating a synergistic business group.
Through its varied subsidiaries DMG produces Telenovela in Latin America and in Israel; it distributes its telenovela in more than 50 countries around the world; it owns and operates two TV channels dedicated to Telenovela in Israel and two TV channels in Indonesia.
In addition to this, DMG creates merchandising and ancillary business for Telenovela series and their by-products.
The group has developed expertise in the production of Telenovela for children and teenagers, and has had international success with its series including Rebelde Way, Floricienta, Rincon de Luz and El Refugio.
The Telenovela produced or financed by the group are sold both in their original form (the original produced series) and in format deals (a license to reproduce by a different company in a different country). To date, the group's Telenovela have been reproduced in varied countries from Mexico and Brazil in Latin America, through Russia and Germany in Europe, to the Middle-East and India in Asia.
In addition DMG owns a growing library of Telenovela series, totaling over 4,000 TV hours, and plans to produce approximately 800-1000 new hours every year.
The Group's television channels in Israel demonstrate the success of the Telenovela genre in attracting strong viewership. Since 2002, DMG's main channel VIVA has been the second most popular amongst all cable and satellite channels available in Israel, according to actual viewing audience share and total rating by reference to the number of television households. Viva's weekend supplement pay channel, "Viva Platina" is enjoying growing popularity as part of the entertainment packages of cable and satellite.
Through the combination of production and distribution of Telenovela and the ownership of television channels and merchandising rights, the group believes in creating a value chain which maximizes earnings potential and which gives it a competitive advantage. The group operates from offices in Israel, USA, Switzerland, Argentina and the Philippines.
