World Screen

LOS ANGELES: The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation has launched EmmyTVLegends.org, a new video portal that offers free, public access to the Archive of American Television, a collection of videotaped interviews with more than 600 influential figures that …

COUNTRIES: The channel airs in 43 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, excluding Puerto Rico. LAUNCH DATE: April 30, 1993 OWNERSHIP: Turner Broadcasting System DISTRIBUTION: 28 million households DESCRIPTION: For kids and teens across Latin America, Cartoon Network touts …

LONDON: The British media regulatory agency Ofcom has announced it will regulate VOD services, including those provided on the Internet by the end of this year. Ofcom is consulting all interested parties on its plans to hand over day-today regulation …

LONDON: As part of a wide-ranging review of its businesses, top management at the BBC is considering a partial privatization of its commercial arm, BBC Worldwide. The review, as BBC director-general Mark Thompson told The Guardian, would include listing BBC …

  NEW YORK: Recovery is in sight for the global broadcast industry, with forecasts predicting that revenues will increase by 4.8 percent next year, according to Strategy Analytics and D. I. S. Consulting. As Douglas Sheer, the CEO and chief …

NEW YORK: Axis3 Apps has taken the exclusive rights to develop and distribution games and applications for iPhones for FitzRoy Media’s Heathcliff and Funny Face properties. As part of the four-year agreement, Axis plans to release the first games this …

LONDON: ALL3MEDIA International has picked up the global rights for Discovery’s U.S. version of the hit factual-entertainment property WA$TED!, for which the company has already secured an agreement for France and French-speaking Europe and Africa with Odysee and Ushuaia TV. …

LONDON: MTV Networks International’s emerging markets group has launched a Nickelodeon-branded programming block on TV2 in Hungary. The two-hour block will air on both Saturday and Sunday mornings. The programming lineup includes Dora the Explorer, Wonder Pets!, Avatar The Last …

LONDON/MUNICH: Sony Pictures Television has renewed the distribution deal for the action-entertainment channel AXN with Bluewin TV, the IPTV platform of Swiss telecommunications service provider Swisscom. AXN features hit TV series such as Californication and Breaking Bad, as well as …

LONDON: Programming from NBC Universal’s SCI FI and 13th Street is now available on demand on Ziggo in the Netherlands. SCI FI On Demand will offer hit series such as Doctor Who, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Strange and Torchwood. …