World Screen

NEW YORK, April 30: Time Warner’s first quarter profit dropped 36 percent to $771 million, on revenues of $11.4 billion, a 2-percent rise on the same period last year. Presenting the results, Time Warner’s CEO, Jeff Bewkes, confirmed speculation that …

DALLAS, April 29: HDNet Fights has partnered with FEG USA to present the 2008 DREAM Lightweight and Middleweight Grand Prix. HDNet Fights Presents: DREAM 1 will premiere May 2 at 10:30 p.m. with a presentation of the DREAM 1 event, …

NEW YORK, April 29: A&E Network has prepared a minisite to coincide with the two-night, four-hour broadcast of the new drama The Andromeda Strain, which airs in high definition May 26 and 27 at 9 p.m. The minisite, at www.theandromedastrain.com, …

NEW YORK, April 29: Interep’s Hispanic Independent Television Sales (HITS) has inked an agreement to serve as the exclusive U.S. national ad sales representative for Caracol Internacional, the global feed of Colombia’s Caracol TV. Tom Marsillo, the president of HITS, …

NEW YORK, April 29: Production is set to begin on May 12 for a second season of the hit live-action preschool series Yo Gabba Gabba!, which is slated to premiere on Nick Jr. in the fall. Meanwhile, musical guests The …

LOS ANGELES/NEW YORK, April 29: A selection of programs from the Stephen J. Cannell catalogue, including 21 Jump Street and Silk Stalkings, are now available on iTunes. Stephen J. Cannell Productions teamed up with New Video to bring digital versions …

LOS ANGELES, April 29: The Hispanic-targeted bilingual music and entertainment channel LATV has added three stations from Tribune Broadcasting in New York, Chicago and Dallas as digital multicast affiliates, bringing its total reach to 32 million households in the U.S. …

BASKING RIDGE/NEWBURY, April 29: Verizon Wireless and Vodafone are set to deliver the first-ever live global mobile simulcast, featuring performances from Madonna’s show at the Roseland Ballroom in New York City. On April 30 at 10 p.m. (May 1 at …

LOS ANGELES, April 29: PorchLight Entertainment wrapped a host of international deals at MIPTV, across its kids’ and movie slates. Farm Kids and Animalia were sold to Rainbow's HD VOOM networks, while Four Eyes and My Goldfish Is Evil were …

NEW YORK, April 29: FremantleMedia Enterprises (FME) has acquired the exclusive representation rights from Crown Creative to the Japanese fashion property Rebecca Bonbon, created by Yuko Shimizu, the designer of Hello Kitty. Launched in Japan in 2005 by Crown Creative, …