World Screen

June 2007 By Anna Carugati If you are looking for a modern-day Renaissance man, you need look no further than Robert Halmi, Sr. A tremendously prolific producer, he has made more than 200 movies and mini-series through his company RHI …

Faced with increased competition and smaller budgets, leading broadcast design firms are finding that their business strategies need to be as creative as their campaigns. June 2007 By Mansha Daswani Branding and design firms working in the broadcast media today …

April 2007 By Anna Carugati Founded by former Vice President Al Gore and Joel Hyatt, Current is the first TV network created by, for and with young adults. In fact, since it launched, on August 1, 2005, Current has been …

World Screen Weekly, June 7, 2007 Interim Managing Director Promax/BDA The annual Promax/BDA conference has become known for its strong speaker lineup, which in the past has included Anne Sweeney, Larry King, Chris Matthews, Anderson Cooper and Ted Koppel, among …

World Screen Weekly, June 7, 2007 COUNTRY: U.S. LAUNCH DATE: October 1996 OWNERSHIP: Discovery Communications NUMBER OF SUBSCRIBERS/DISTRIBUTION: 47.3 million subscribers DESCRIPTION: The Science Channel is the only network dedicated to making science programming accessible, relevant, substantive and entertaining. The …

LONDON, June 8: FremantleMedia has hired Chris O’Dell as executive producer of Worldwide Entertainment. O’Dell, most recently creative executive at TWI Entertainment, joins the FremantleMedia team responsible for international supervision of their global formats such as Idols, Got Talent and …

TORONTO, June 8: Portfolio Entertainment will head to DISCOP this year with a slate of children’s, family and lifestyle television programming totaling more than 700 episodes. Among the programs that Portfolio Entertainment will offer at DISCOP are the 65×30-minute animated …

TOKYO, June 8: Recruit Co., has concluded a stock transfer agreement on all shares of its wholly-owned subsidiary, Recruit Visual Communications with Japanese MSO Jupiter Telecommunications Co. The acquisition of RVC as a consolidated subsidiary marks another step in J:COM’s …

CHARLOTTE, June 8: Educational Adventures has secured a range of new licensing agreements for product lines such as oral care products, bean bag chairs, stickers and temporary tattoos for the Danger Rangers brand. The California-based World Trend, a manufacturer of …

NEW YORK/LONDON/AMSTERDAM, June 8: The History Channel has secured its second platform launch in the territory on CAIW’s Delight Tier, thereby extending its reach in the Netherlands. The distribution deal with CAIW was secured by The History Channel U.K., a …