World Screen

TORONTO, July 10: Third quarter revenues at Corus Entertainment rose 9 percent to C$197.6 million, delivering a net profit of C$29.6 million, up from last year’s C$23.2 million. "We enjoyed another solid quarter with strong ad sales in radio and …

SANTA MONICA, July 10: After serving as president and CEO of GSN (Game Show Network) for the past six years, Rich Cronin is resigning from the company at the end of the month. “I am honored to have led a …

NEW YORK, July 10: NBC Universal’s Universal HD network will launch a new weekly high-definition programming block on August 1 at 8 p.m. that showcases original programming from the Sundance Channel, including the celebrity interview series Iconoclasts. Sponsored by Microsoft, …

LONDON, July 10: BBC Three has commissioned six new youth-targeted drama pilots that are set to premiere on the channel later this year, including the dark thriller Things I Haven’t Told You, produced by Tiger Aspect. The new drama pilots …

LOS GATOS, July 10: Since online movie rental service Netflix introduced its instant watching feature in January, allowing subscribers to watch movies and TV episodes on their PCs, the feature has already notched up 5 million viewings. In January, Netflix …

LOS ANGELES, July 10: Kevin Reilly, recently ousted as president of entertainment at NBC, has taken on the same position at FOX, with Peter Liguori being elevated to chairman of entertainment. Announcing the restructure, Peter Chernin, the president and COO …

REDWOOD CITY, July 10: Trion World Network, a broadband gaming and entertainment company launched last year, has received $30 million in financing from Time Warner, GE/NBC Universal’s Peacock Equity and Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments (BDMI), among other investors. The financing …

LONDON, July 10: The U.K.’s Competition Commission’s investigation into BSkyB’s acquisition of a 17.9-percent stake in ITV will include a look at the links between the platform and other businesses within News Corporation, particularly the company’s British newspapers, such as …

LOS ANGELES, July 10: According to the organizers of last weekend’s Live Earth series of concerts, the event was viewed by 8 million people on MSN, streaming 30 million videos, for what is being called the largest audience ever for …

April 2007 By Mansha Daswani Just two years ago, BitTorrent was the bane of Hollywood. The peer-to-peer file-sharing software developed by Bram Cohen in 2001 became, for some time, the easiest way to rapidly download film and television content online—albeit …