World Screen

NEW YORK/SUNNYVALE, March 31: MTV Networks is partnering with the mobile video destination mywaves to deliver free, ad-supported content from VH1 and Spike TV, among other brands, to cell phones. Through the agreement, select video clips from VH1, Spike, GameTrailers …

LOS ANGELES, March 31: Microsoft has inked a deal for the Hollywood producer Peter Safran to develop original short-form content for distribution through the Xbox 360 gaming platform. Safran is a former president of Brillstein-Grey Entertainment and for the last …

ISMANING, March 31: EM.Sport Media is moving closer to a merger with Switzerland’s Highlight Communications, upping its stake in the company and tapping Highlight’s chairman, Bernhard Burgener, to succeed Werner Klatten as its new CEO. EM.Sport Media is increasing it …

WASHINGTON, March 31: Matthew Blank, the chairman and CEO of Showtime Networks, and Anne Sweeney, the co-chair of Disney Media Networks and the president of Disney-ABC Television Group, are the 2008 recipients of the Vanguard Award for Distinguished Leadership from …

CULVER CITY, March 31: Sony Pictures Television has announced the launch of PIX, a film service for mobile phones that will launch to AT&T subscribers this May. Subscribers of AT&T Mobile TV will gain access to contemporary and library films …

NEW YORK, March 31: Barry Diller has won a court case that allows him to proceed with the separation of IAC/InterActiveCorp into five separate companies, a move that John Malone’s Liberty Media had attempted to block. The battle between longtime …

LONDON, March 31: ZenithOptimedia has downgraded 2008 ad expenditure growth in North America and Europe to 3.8 percent, but has upgraded the forecast for the rest of the world to 11.1 percent. The organization notes that developing markets will contribute …

World Screen Weekly, March 27, 2008 Executive Producer and Partner Breakthrough Films & Television At the beginning of this year, before the Hollywood writers’ strike ended its 100-day run, both CBS and NBC announced the acquisition of Canadian dramas for …

World Screen Weekly, March 27, 2008 COUNTRY: Italy LAUNCH DATE: The channel made its debut in 1998 on the Italian pay-TV platform Stream, which in 2003 changed ownership and was renamed SKY Italia. NUMBER OF SUBSCRIBERS: 4.2 million OWNERSHIP: Fox …

TV Kids Weekly, March 25, 2008 CEO Adness Entertainment U.S. Airing for more than 35 years, the live-action kids’ series Kamen Rider boasts more than 840 episodes and 22 movies to date in its home country of Japan. Adness Entertainment …