World Screen

NEW YORK, June 5: In the first meeting between the Bancroft family, which controls Dow Jones & Co., owner of The Wall Street Journal, and Rupert Murdoch, one of the main topics was News Corporation's relationship with the Chinese government, …

NEW YORK, June 5: Bill Nelson has been named the chairman and CEO of Home Box Office. He was previously the company’s COO. HBO also announced a new senior leadership structure and has promoted three veteran HBO executives—Harold Akselrad, Eric …

April 2007 By Anna Carugati As media companies large and small experiment with the new-media world, looking for the best and most remunerative ways of offering programming to viewers, NBC Universal has already found several. Beth Comstock, the president of …

World Screen Weekly, May 31, 2007 President of Worldwide Distribution PorchLight Entertainment Ken DuBow, the recently appointed president of worldwide distribution at PorchLight Entertainment, has known about the television business since he was a young boy. “There is a legendary …

World Screen Weekly, May 31, 2007 COUNTRY: U.K. LAUNCH DATE: November 2001 NUMBER OF SUBSCRIBERS: 10 million homes across the U.K. via Sky, Virgin TV and Top Up TV. OWNERSHIP: UKTV, a joint venture between BBC Worldwide and Virgin Media …

LOS ANGELES/TORONTO, June 4: Blueprint Entertainment has named Jesse Ikeman to the newly created position of VP of business development and co-production. In his new position, based in Toronto, Ikeman will be responsible for the packaging, development and financing of …

LONDON, June 4: FremantleMedia Enterprises (FME) has announced a series of appointments and promotions within its ancillary rights business across Asia Pacific. Malti Peplow has been appointed to the newly created position of director of sponsorship and interactive in Asia, …

VANCOUVER, June 4: Nerd Corps Entertainment’s first original series, the 3-D animated Storm Hawks, premieres today on Cartoon Network in the U.S. The premiere follows a successful Friday night sneak peek of a one-hour special episode. New episodes of the …

NEW YORK, June 4: TV Land has secured the exclusive off-network rights to the hit ABC show Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. Through its deal with Disney-ABC Domestic Television, TV Land gains access to prior seasons of the series, and Extreme …

BOSTON/VANCOUVER, June 4: WGBH Boston has teamed up with Canadian animation company Studio B Productions Inc., to develop and co-produce a new animated series for public television that is based on the award-winning Martha Speaks children’s book series by Susan …