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World Screen Weekly, May 1, 2008 Managing Director Rose d’Or Festival This year marks the 48th edition of the Rose d’Or Festival, which kicks off this Friday, May 2, in Lucerne, Switzerland, and runs through May 6. Under new management …

World Screen Weekly, May 1, 2008 President of Worldwide Distribution PorchLight Entertainment MIPTV was a very good market for PorchLight Entertainment, a producer and distributor of high-end family entertainment. Not only did PorchLight have a full slate of animated series, …

World Screen Weekly, May 1, 2008 COUNTRY: U.S. LAUNCH DATE: January 9, 2006 OWNERSHIP: American Public Television (APT), in collaboration with Thirteen/WNET New York and WGBH Boston DISTRIBUTION: Distributed by 178 stations, which reach 70 percent of U.S. TV households …

TV Real Weekly, April 30, 2008 Documentary Filmmaker Creator, Pangea Day On May 10, cities around the world, including London, Los Angeles, Mumbai, Cairo and Rio de Janeiro, will be linked in a four-hour global broadcast for Pangea Day. Featuring …

TV Kids Weekly, April 29, 2008 ORIGIN: The new animated series, geared toward 6- to 14-year-olds, builds on the legendary adventures from the original Speed Racer, which launched in the U.S. in 1967. The new animated series is premiering May …

NEW YORK, May 5: Reality format producer City Lights Television has created a new international development division, to be led by Laura Johnson as senior VP. Previously, Johnson served as City Lights Television’s senior VP of production operations and was …

NEW YORK, May 5: A&E Network is launching two new websites dedicated to the network’s 2008 Primetime Emmy campaign, considerAETV.com and iPhone.considerAETV.com. The two new websites aim to offer members of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences a simple …

SÃO PAULO, May 5: The Brazilian sales agency Content xp has enhanced its stock footage offerings, which now includes video from TV Globo and Futura Channel. From Globo, Content xp can provide video footage about the sporting, political, social and …

TOKYO, May 5: Japan’s TMS Entertainment has released its animated theatrical film Phantom of Baker Street, based on the Detective Conan TV series, in Korea. This is the first-ever theatrical animation film release for the Detective Conan series in Korea, …

SAN FRANCISCO, May 5: The multiplatform animation network Aniboom has inked partnerships with an additional five Internet video platforms to bring its content to an online audience of more than 140 million viewers. Aniboom’s animations and cartoons are now available …