World Screen

NEW YORK, June 18: HIT Entertainment has taken on the multiplatform rights for North America and Japan to two properties from Chapman Entertainment: Fifi and the Flowertots and the new series Roary The Racing Car. The series join Bob the …

NEW YORK, June 18: NBC Universal’s Bravo cable network is looking to expand its presence beyond the television screen with the launch of Bravo Media, which will encompass talent management, publishing, merchandising, wireless, events, digital, television, radio and international activities. …

HONG KONG, June 18: Disney-ABC International Television (Asia Pacific) has entered into a multiyear video on demand agreement with BigPond, the leading broadband Internet service provider in Australia. This is The Walt Disney Company’s first online VOD movie deal in …

LONDON, June 18: UKTV Gold, Sky One, BBC Three, BBC Four, More4 and ITV2 are all up for the Non-Terrestrial Channel of the Year award at the MediaGuardian Edinburgh International TV Festival, while all five terrestrials are up for the …

SINGAPORE, June 18: Nokia is working with MiTV Corporation to launch a commercial mobile broadcast TV service, based on Digital Video Broadcast-Handheld (DVB-H) technology, in Malaysia in the second half of this year. Nokia Siemens Networks will provide MiTV's 018 …

NEW YORK, June 18: MTV Networks is partnering with the video-advertising technology and services company Visible World to give its advertisers the ability to customize and target video ads in real-time across its U.S.-based TV channels and websites. "Our goal …

UNIVERSAL CITY/LONDON, June 18: Universal Pictures has entered into a deal to expand the reach of the PictureBox subscription video on demand movie service with Tiscali UK, following its December rollout with Top Up TV. The PictureBox service launched on …

CAMBRIDGE, June 18: Fox Entertainment Group has signed a deal with the Internet TV company Brightcove that allows each of its networks, beginning with FOX, FX and SPEED, to launch ad-supported video channels. "This partnership helps further Fox's commitment to …

NEW YORK, June 18: General Electric, the parent company of NBC Universal, is said to be in discussions with Pearson, home to the Financial Times, about a joint bid for Dow Jones & Company, publisher of The Wall Street Journal. …

June 2007 By María Teresa Alvarado Marcos Santana is recognized as an expert in the telenovela business. He spent two decades at Tepuy International, a leading producer and distributor of high-end telenovelas. In addition to its other productions, Tepuy distributed …