World Screen

TORONTO, April 23: The Banff World Television Festival (BWTVF) will present its 2007 Outstanding Achievement Award to the BBC on Sunday, June 10, at the Fairmont Springs, in Banff, Canada, with Director-General Mark Thompson accepting on behalf of the organization. …

NEW YORK, April 23: Verizon FiOS TV has boosted its lineup of national high-definition programming with the addition of three channels: HGTV HD, Food Network HD and LMN (Lifetime Movie Network) HD. The three channels will be available in all …

SALERNO, April 23: The BBC’s Charlie and Lola was among the winners of this year’s Pulcinella Awards, announced at the Cartoons on the Bay animation festival over the weekend. Charlie and Lola picked up the best TV series for infants …

LONDON, April 23: BBC One’s Panorama current-affairs show today alleged that callers to premium-rate phone competitions on the GMTV morning show have been defrauded out of millions of pounds over the last four years. Calling the incident “TV’s dirtiest little …

MADRID, April 23: The Spanish investment fund Grupo Torreal has acquired a 20-percent stake in Imagina, which owns a majority interest in the La Sexta network. Imagina is the product of the merger of Grupo Arbol and Mediapro. In addition …

TORONTO, April 23: The Canadian Competition Bureau has given its clearance to the $2.05 billion sale of Alliance Atlantis Communications to CanWest Global Communications and Goldman Sachs Capital Partners. Alliance Atlantis shareholders cleared the C$53/share agreement earlier this month. A …

HOLLYWOOD, April 23: More than 1 million Blu-ray discs have been sold in less than a year, according to figures from Home Media Research, with the format accounting for 70 percent of high-definition movies sold in the first quarter of …

April 2007 By Anna Carugati It’s one of the largest media companies in the world, but it’s not based in New York or Los Angeles or Tokyo or any other major metropolitan area. With headquarters in suburban Gütersloh, Germany, Bertelsmann …

World Screen Weekly, April 19, 2007 COUNTRY: U.S. LAUNCH DATE: August 31, 1998 as PAX; relaunched as ION Television on January 29, 2007. OWNERSHIP: ION Media Networks, Inc. DISTRIBUTION: More than 93 million U.S. households via ION Media Networks’ broadcast …

World Screen Weekly, April 19, 2007 VP of International TV Distribution and Sales Sesame Workshop Jennifer Monier-Williams has learned a lot of things in her role as the VP of international TV distribution and sales at Sesame Workshop, not least …