World Screen

NEW YORK, June 17: Harry Vasavada has been appointed as the senior VP of finance for Lightworks Enterprises, charged with responsibility for all finance and accounting functions. Reporting to David Dreilinger, the company’s president and CEO, Vasavada will be based …

NEW YORK, June 16: NBC Universal is in exclusive negotiations with Landmark Communications to acquire The Weather Channel, according to published reports, working with private-equity firms The Blackstone Group and Bain Capital. Time Warner recently pulled out of talks with …

PARIS, June 16: Chad Hurley, the co-founder and CEO of YouTube, will deliver the opening keynote speech for MIPCOM’s first Broadband Video Summit on October 15. The Broadband Video Summit is a new addition to MIPCOM—taking place in Cannes from …

NEW YORK, June 16: Tim Russert, the moderator of NBC’s flagship Sunday morning public-affairs show Meet the Press and the network’s Washington news bureau chief, passed away suddenly on Friday of a heart attack at the age of 58. Russert …

MUNICH/STOCKHOLM, June 16: ProSiebenSat.1 Group has sold the Nordic pay-TV company C More Entertainment, which it acquired through its merger with SBS Broadcasting, to Sweden’s TV4 Group. C More operates the Canal+ premium pay-TV brand in Denmark, Finland, Norway and …

NEW YORK, June 16: Herb Scannell is relinquishing the CEO role at Next New Networks, the online entertainment company he co-founded after serving as the president of Nickelodeon and vice chairman of MTV Networks, but will remain as the executive …

CHICAGO/CULVER CITY, June 16: Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo Productions and Sony Pictures Television (SPT) will debut a new series centered on Dr. Mehmet C. Oz, the bestselling author, educator and surgeon who is a regular on The Oprah Winfrey Show, in …

LONDON/BUDAPEST, June 16: MTV Networks International (MTVNI) will debut Comedy Central Hungary in October, with the fully localized local-language channel becoming available to 1.5 million households via cable and satellite. The channel will broadcast a mix of locally produced and …

SÃO PAULO, June 16: Globo TV International has renewed its volume deal with Mozambique’s STV-Soico Televisão to provide its telenovelas, documentaries and comedy and drama series to viewers in Africa until 2011. Beginning in 2009, more than 700 hours of …

CULVER CITY, June 16: Sony Pictures Entertainment and its online video network, Crackle, have agreed to support a set of collaborative principles that enable the growth and development of user-generated content online while respecting the intellectual property of rights owners. …