Middlehoff key speaker at fest

World Brief

By ERICH BOEHM

Thomas Middlehoff, chairman and chief exec of German media giant Bertelsmann, will give this year's Worldview Address at the Edinburgh Intl. Television Festival.

Bertelsmann is the parent of RTL Group, Europe's largest commercial broadcaster and owner of U.K.'s upstart terrestrial Channel 5.

The Edinburgh fest, the annual gathering of the British TV biz, runs Aug. 23-25 this year.

Middlehoff also is participating in the Royal Television Society's confab in London on Sept. 10.