World Screen

NEW YORK, August 18: This September, World Screen and TV Latina will launch daily video news bulletins, in English and Spanish, in partnership with Reed MIDEM, the organizer of the international content industry’s biggest annual events, MIPTV and MIPCOM. Featured …

NEW YORK, August 18: According to a new survey from the Pew Research Center, fewer Americans are reading newspapers and instead getting their news online, while television still holds strong as the leading source for news in the U.S. Pew …

LONDON, August 18: BBC Worldwide has launched a 24/7 channel on YouTube for its hit Top Gear franchise, featuring highlights from the show as well as celebrity interviews. The channel will also feature content from the presenters' other shows, including …

LOS ANGELES, August 18: Fox International Channels (FIC) has launched Biensimple.com, a wiki-based community for Latinos looking for advice on a range of topics including health, relationships, money, beauty and technology. The website is based on information from experts in …

NEW YORK/OAKDALE, August 18: Nickelodeon and Viacom Consumer Products has teamed up with Imation to release a line of tween-themed electronics inspired by the hit live-action series iCarly under Nickelodeon’s Npower brand. The line includes web cams, camcorders, digital cameras, …

OSLO, August 18: Norway’s three largest broadcasters—NRK, TV 2 and MTG—have cofounded a new company that will launch mobile TV via DMB this winter, offering nine live TV channels as well as on-demand content. The new company, Norsk mobil-TV (NMTV), …

BALTIMORE/WASHINGTON, D.C., August 18: TidalTV has added three online channels dedicated to worldwide news and feature programming from international news agency Agence France-Presse (AFP), which has a presence in 165 countries. The channels, Tidal Fashion, Tidal World News and Tidal …

NEW YORK, August 18: Smithsonian Channel has launched programming on the iTunes Store that covers genres such as wildlife, technology, history, pop culture and children’s shows. Programs such as Stories from the Vaults, Remembering Vietnam: The Wall at 25, Day …

NEW YORK, August 18: Sundance Channel and Grey Goose Entertainment have unveiled the six new pairs on the roster for the fourth season of Iconoclasts, which will debut October 16 at 10 p.m. Each hour-long episode features two leading innovators …

PARIS/AMSTERDAM, August 18: Mezzo, a European classical music and jazz channel, will launch a Dutch service in December to be available to all distributing partners in the Netherlands and Flanders. The Dutch channel will be the first fully localized version …