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NEW YORK: Further expanding its portfolio of insightful newsletters for the worldwide media community, World Screen is launching TV Channels Weekly this July. Distributed to our readership base of more than 30,000 executives in the international media business every Monday, …

Don’t know your Bordeaux from your Beaujolais? Can’t tell a Camembert from a Colby? Sounds like you should be watching more TV. With a whole new crop of shows dedicated to teaching viewers about food and wine, it’s easy to …

President NBC Universal Cable Entertainment and Universal Cable Productions. Under Bonnie Hammer’s leadership, USA Network, home to hit shows such as Monk, Psych and Burn Notice, has become the leading general-entertainment cable channel in the U.S. Its sister network SCI …

COUNTRY: Canada LAUNCH DATE: In 2008, CTVglobemedia sold Canadian Learning Television (CLT) to Corus Entertainment, which then relaunched the network as VIVA. OWNERSHIP: Corus Entertainment Inc. DISTRIBUTION: VIVA is currently available in 5 million households. DESCRIPTION: Positioned as the television …

RHI Entertainment’s Jeff Sagansky & Robert Halmi, Jr. on what’s ahead for the company. It’s been a year of considerable change for RHI Entertainment. Early in the summer of 2008, the com­pany’s founders, Robert Halmi, Sr., and Robert Halmi, Jr., …

At the end of last month, Discovery Studios opened up its new facilities on the West Coast. The move reflects the growth of the Discovery Communications-owned production outfit since its 2007 founding. Helmed by Carole Tomko as president,  Discovery Studios …

ORIGIN: The series is based on an original idea. DISTRIBUTOR: TVA Films, a division of Group TVA Inc. CREATOR: Vicki Grant TV SHOW: Targeting kids aged 3 to 6, this puppet-based series, billed as a "construction comedy," consists of 65 …

NEW YORK: Jane Root, most recently president of Discovery Channel in the U.S., is working on a 12-part series, America The Story of Us, for HISTORY, which is billing it as a "groundbreaking initiative of epic proportions." Slated for a …

NEW YORK: TVLatina.tv, World Screen’s leading Spanish-language website, has launched the L.A. Screenings Multimedia Extravaganza, delivering features, interviews, audio, a host of resources—including a suite directory for the Century Plaza and InterContinental hotels—and the Enfocados en el futuro (Focused on the Future) video …

TORONTO: The inaugural Canwest-Hot Docs Pitch Prize was handed out at the Toronto Documentary Forum (TDF), with the C$40,000 going to Toronto’s White Pine Pictures for The Team. Pitched as a feature-length, vérité-style documentary, The Team takes place in Kenya …