Vishnu Athreya has been promoted to senior VP of programming for Turner's Cartoon Network, working out of Atlanta under Rob Sorcher, the channel's chief content officer.

Escapade Media has teamed up with Andrew Zimmern's Intuitive Content to produce Slice, a new food and travel series hosted by Adam Richman (Man v. Food).

Michael Rosen, a children's novelist, poet, broadcaster, columnist and more, is slated to give the opening keynote at this year's Children's Media Conference (CMC), which is being held in Sheffield from July 3 to 5.

Principal photography has started on Mean Queen, the latest project from Incendo.

Atlantyca Entertainment's Geronimo Stilton: Kingdom of Fantasy Live, a popular stage show, is slated to launch in Australia this summer.

According to Digital TV Research, global pay-TV revenues peaked in 2016 at $205 billion and are forecast to fall by 11 percent to $183 billion in 2023.

The never-ending search for the next big thing was on the agenda as everyone from global behemoths to digital upstarts hyped their new wares to broadcasters and platforms.

Comcast has expanded its partnership with Netflix and can now include a subscription to the streaming service in new and existing Xfinity packages.

Finnish content producers from across the film and television industries have come together to form Audiovisual Producers Finland (APFI).

MTV International has commissioned the new observational reality format Million Dollar Baby, which comes from the makers of the hit series Teen Mom UK.