World Screen

RESTON, June 17: New data from digital research firm comScore reveals that American Internet users viewed 11 billion online videos during April, with Google-owned YouTube accounting for more than 4 billion of the total. In April, Google sites cumulatively ranked …

NEW YORK, June 17: According to Nielsen Monitor-Plus, advertising spending in the U.S. remained flat in the first quarter of this year, rising 0.5 percent. In television, advertising within programming and on networks geared towards African-American and Hispanic viewers grew …

NEW YORK, June 17: Cablevision’s Rainbow Media Holdings has completed its acquisition of Sundance Channel from NBC Universal, CBS Corporation’s Showtime Networks and founder Robert Redford. The completed acquisition follows on an agreement that was reached on May 6, which …

LOS ANGELES, June 17: John de Mol’s Talpa Media Group has launched TalpaCreative.com, an online community offering members the opportunity to create and sell their original non-scripted television show ideas. Members of TalpaCreative.com can submit original format ideas, or respond …

HONG KONG, June 17: Disney’s Anne Sweeney will deliver a keynote speech at this year’s Cable & Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (CASBAA) conference, with additional headlining speakers to include BBC Worldwide’s Darren Childs and NDS’s Abe Peled. Sweeney is …

LOS ANGELES, June 17: Idol Gives Back, the music celebration and fundraising event that aired on FOX from American Idol producers 19 Television and FremantleMedia North America, will be honored with the inaugural Reality Innovator Award at the NATPE LATV …

JOHANNESBURG, June 17: MTV Networks International has inked a multi-year distribution deal to launch Nickelodeon as a 24-hour English-language channel in Southern Africa, available through MultiChoice’s DStv platform beginning July 1. The channel will be available to subscribers in Botswana, …

NEW YORK/LOS ANGELES, June 17: NBC Sports has teamed with World Championship Sports Network (WCSN) to create Universal Sports, a multiplatform destination for Olympic sports programming that will include both a television network and an online platform, UniversalSports.com. WCSN will …

BURBANK, June 17: Disney Channel in the U.S. will premiere Walt Disney Pictures' Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert in 3-D on Saturday, July 26, at 8 p.m. Fifteen-year-old Cyrus completed a sold-out 70-date concert tour in February. …

ENGLEWOOD, June 17: D.B. Sweeney, Nick Tarabay and Michael Fairman have joined the cast of Crash, the first original drama from Starz Entertainment, based on the Academy Award-winning film of the same name. Sweeney (Jericho, Eight Men Out, The Cutting …