World Screen

SINGAPORE, April 1: BBC Worldwide’s Global Channels business has launched BBC Knowledge and CBeebies in Indonesia via Indovision’s DTH service. Both channels will be localized within six months of launch, with BBC Knowledge carrying Bahasa Indonesia subtitles and CBeebies dubbed. …

MOSCOW, April 1: The independent Russian broadcasting group CTC Media has relaunched Channel 31 in Kazakhstan, following its acquisition of a stake in the broadcaster earlier this year. In February, CTC reached a deal for a 20-percent stake in the …

TORONTO, April 1: Peace Arch Entertainment Group has reported revenues of C$17.2 million for the first quarter of fiscal 2008, up 52 percent on the year-ago period. The company noted that the gains were led by the home entertainment segment, …

BURBANK, April 1: Disney-ABC Television Group is gearing up for the multiplatform launch of the new Disney Channel original movie Camp Rock, which is slated to premiere across cable, broadcast and digital platforms worldwide, beginning on Friday, June 20, in …

PARIS, April 1: Shirley MacLaine and Sam Neill will attend this year’s MIPTV, expanding the conference’s roster of international talent that also includes Miss World Zi Lin Zhang, Tracy Ullman, Brian Conley and Uri Geller, among others. MacLaine and Neill …

LAS VEGAS, April 1: Fox Mobile Entertainment has launched the Fox Entertainment Mobile Network, a mobile web portal that features a variety of content from networks like FOX, FX, SPEED, National Geographic Channel and Fox Reality Channel. The new portal …

BURBANK, April 1: ABC will premiere eight original series in its summer schedule, including the return of The Bachelorette on May 19 at 9 p.m., as well as a new series from Endemol and a High School Musical-based reality series. …

NEW YORK, April 1: WorldScreenings.com, the leading video portal for the entertainment industry, has delivered 31,809 streams since its September 2007 launch, with 15,351 player loads and more than 10,000 unique visitors. Operated by WSN INC., the preeminent publishing group …

NEW YORK, April 1: According to The Nielsen Company, the number of product placement occurrences in prime-time U.S. network TV rose 13 percent in 2007, with a total of 25,950 instances in the top ten programs for product placement, versus …

LONDON, March 31: KidsCo has appointed Eileen McCarthy, a former Hallmark Channel executive, as its program director. McCarthy most recently served as the programming director for Asia of Hallmark Channel. Based in Hong Kong, she made strategic decisions including identifying …