World Screen

LONDON, August 9: Turner Broadcasting System (TBS) has tapped wireless entertainment provider GlobalFun as the pan-European distributor for mobile games based on the Adult Swim series The Brak Show and the Cartoon Network series Johnny Bravo. The deal follows a …

NORWALK, August 9: CABLEready has finalized deals for a wide variety of its non-fiction programming in Australia, Asia and the Middle East, including a significant package going to Crime & Investigation Network in Australia. In the deal with Crime & …

LONDON, August 9: HIT Entertainment has appointed Orchard Books as its publishing partner in the U.K. for the girl-skewing animated property Rainbow Magic. Over a five-year period, Orchard Books, who published the original Rainbow Magic books, will publish all English-language …

STOCKHOLM, August 9: Viasat Broadcasting has secured the exclusive rights to broadcast in Hungary and Slovenia the next five seasons of EHF Champions League in handball, beginning this September. From the start of the 2007-2008 season in September, Viasat3 in …

NEW YORK/LITTLE ROCK, August 9: Alltel Wireless has reached a deal to offer its customers a suite of mobile content from Viacom’s MTV Networks (MTVN), including on-demand video, WAP sites, games and personalization features. MTVN will begin offering video from …

NEW YORK, August 9: In the second quarter, 4Kids Entertainment recorded a net loss of $2.2 million, as compared with last year’s profit of $34,000, with revenues down 28 percent to $12 million. For the six months ended June 30, …

KNOXVILLE, August 9: Scripps Networks continues to bolster its online presence with the acquisition of Incando Corporation, whose assets include the personal media sharing service Pickle.com and the user-generated content management platform Powered by Pickle. The acquisition marks Scripps Networks’ …

NEW YORK, August 9: The DIRECTV Group, which today reported a 17-percent increase in second-quarter revenues to $4.14 billion, has renewed the contract of its president and CEO, Chase Carey, for another three years, continuing through December 31, 2010. "We …

DALLAS, August 9: DVD rental giant Blockbuster is angling for a foothold in the content download market, announcing the acquisition of Movielink, the online movie service established by a number of Hollywood studios. Movielink offers customers the ability to legally …

ENGLEWOOD, August 9: Despite a 37-percent increase in revenues to $2.18 billion, Liberty Global has recorded a second-quarter net loss of $129.7 million, versus its $24.2 million profit a year ago. For the first half of the year, meanwhile, revenues …