NEW YORK, March 17: In this video interview, Discovery Communications’ president and CEO, David Zaslav, reflects on what has made the company’s brands so strong over the last 25 years and what's still ahead.

HERNDON, March 16: RCN Corporation has added two new Spanish-language channels to its Hispanic Cable TV program packages: VeneMovies and Semillitas.

BUENOS AIRES, March 15: Among Telefe International's highlights for MIPTV are the teen telenovela The Resistance and romantic comedy WAGs, Love for the Game.

MIAMI, March 12: Latin Media Company (LMC), headed by Jose Escalante, has partnered with Radio Televisyen Malaysia (RTM) to produce its first Malaysian telenovela-style drama for the worldwide market.

MEXICO CITY, March 12: Two new telenovelas from Pol-ka have joined the catalogue of Televisa Internacional: Somebody to Love Me and Wicked Girl.

SILVER SPRING, March 10: The newly created role of international head of content for Discovery Communications is to be filled by Luis Silberwasser, who currently serves as senior VP of the content group for Discovery Networks Latin America/U.S. Hispanic and general manager of U.S. Hispanic Networks.

BUENOS AIRES, March 10: Following its participation in DISCOP Africa, Telefe International has wrapped several deals and has a number of negotiations ongoing in the region.

MIAMI, March 10: Venevision International has started production on the new telenovela Sacrificio de mujer (A Woman’s Sacrifice), which stars Majorie de Sousa and Juan Alfonso Baptista.

NEW YORK, March 9: Barry Koch, the senior VP and general manager of Cartoon Network, Boomerang and Tooncast in Latin America, talks in this video interview about the growth of the channels across the region and what the key priorities are for the year ahead.

NEW YORK, March 9: A new management structure is in place at Univision Communications' news and entertainment businesses, organizing operations on a company-wide basis.

NEW YORK/UNIVERSAL CITY, March 9: NBC has renewed its exclusive agreement with Donald Trump and the Miss Universe Organization to broadcast the Miss Universe and Miss USA pageants for an additional three years, effective in 2011.

MADRID/NEW YORK, March 8: Spain's Group Prisa is to receive a $900 million cash injection via a merger deal with Liberty Acquisition Holdings Corp., a U.S.-based special-purpose acquisition company.

TEL AVIV, March 8: Dori Media Group has sold the teen vampire series Split into 35 countries since its launch nine months ago, with the Philippines as the latest territory, and the first in Asia, to pick up the daily drama.

MIAMI, March 5: The Telemundo Internacional telenovela Beautiful, but Unlucky takes a 2:30 p.m. time slot, Monday through Friday, on BTV in Bulgaria as of March 8.

BUENOS AIRES, March 5: Telefe International's romantic comedy WAGs, Love for the Game is headed to El Salvador, where it will air Monday through Friday on Channel 33 starting April 5.

NEW YORK, March 4: Shine Group's chairman and CEO, Elisabeth Murdoch, was interviewed by World Screen's group editorial director, Anna Carugati, at NATPE this year.

NEW YORK, March 4: Jeff Gomez and Nathan Mayfield will be hosting a session at the MIPTV Producers' Forum—a two-day initiative organized in association with World Screen—about developing stories and concepts across multiple platforms.

NEW YORK, March 3: The Producers' Forum is a new two-day initiative at MIPTV, organized in association with World Screen. Kicking off a series on the panelists at Producers' Forum, David Lyle, the president of Fox Reality Channel, discusses the Entertainment Master Class on selling and protecting formats.

MEXICO CITY, March 2: Comarex has inked a deal with Turner Broadcasting System for the animated series Master Raindrop to debut in Latin America on Cartoon Network this April.

ENGLEWOOD/MEXICO CITY, March 1: EchoStar is acquiring Satelites Mexicanos (Satmex)—the Mexican operator that delivers video, audio and data services to the Americas via three satellites and two satellite uplink facilities—in a joint venture with MVS Comunicaciones.

PARIS/NEW YORK, March 1: There are 13 nominees across three categories for this year's International Digital Emmy Awards, which will be presented at a special ceremony on April 12 at MIPTV.

SÃO PAULO, March 1: Globo TV Sports is heading to Sportel Asia in Singapore next week with a package of Brazilian football matches.

LOS ANGELES, February 26: Shine International has sold Reveille's hit MTV reality series The Buried Life in 10 markets, including Australia, Latin America and the Middle East.

MIAMI, February 26: Maggie Salas-Amaro has been named director of network strategies at América CV Network, where she will oversee the expansion and in-market strategies for CV 48, CV 24, C34 and WJAN-America TeVe channel 41.

NEW YORK, February 25: Advertising spending fell by 9 percent in 2009 to $117 billion, according to The Nielsen Company, but the research firm notes that the rate of ad decline appears to be slowing.

TEL AVIV, February 25: Group revenues at Dori Media Group for 2009 were down 3 percent to $48.7 million, with an increase in TV channel revenues helping to offset declines from the sales of telenovelas.

MEXICO CITY, February 25: TV Azteca's 24-hour telenovela network Azteca Novelas has scored carriage in Puerto Rico on Liberty Cablevision.

NEW YORK, February 25: The U.S. Hispanic network V-me, which is celebrating its third anniversary in March, has more than two dozen new series joining its spring schedule.

SÃO PAULO, February 24: Globo TV International's telenovela India: A Love Story has been sold to a number of broadcasters in Asia, with negotiations ongoing for the series to air on several other outlets in the region.

NEW YORK, February 24: American Greetings Properties has plans to bring new Care Bears entertainment to the U.K., Italy, Latin America, the Middle East and Canada.