World Screen

TORONTO, March 6: Alliance Atlantis has posted a net loss for the fourth quarter of C$16.6 million—versus last year’s C$24.8 million profit—while for the full year profit fell from C$70.9 million to C$48.6 million. Fourth quarter revenue, however, rose 12 …

NEW YORK, March 6: Tom Rubin, the associate general counsel for copyright, trademark and trade secrets at Microsoft, gave a speech to the Association of American Publishers today criticizing Google’s “cavalier” attitude towards copyright protection. “Companies that create no content …

HONG KONG, March 5: Disney Channel has named Simon George to the newly created position of VP of regional marketing for Asia Pacific, reporting to Nicky Parkinson, the SVP and MD of Disney Channel Asia Pacific, and Adam Sanderson, the …

LOS ANGELES, March 5: The Hispanic-targeted bilingual music and entertainment channel LATV has signed on its fifth Post-Newsweek Stations affiliate, WJXT, in Jacksonville, Florida, marking the network’s 30th affiliation. WJXT will begin broadcasting LATV on March 20 on digital channel …

CULVER CITY, March 5: Sony Pictures Television International (SPTI) has announced a promotion and an expansion of duties for two members of its international networks group, Superna Kalle and George Chan. Kalle has been upped to senior VP with oversight …

UNIVERSAL CITY, March 5: Atsushi Miyasaka has been named VP and sales liaison for Japan at NBC Universal International Television Distribution. Miyasaka reports to Haydn Arndt, the VP and sales liaison at NBC Universal International Television Distribution, and Justin Che, …

NEW YORK, March 5: MY Entertainment Company, a production and distribution firm headed up by Carat Entertainment executive Michael Yudin, has secured the international distribution and format rights to the first two seasons of Spike TV’s Pros vs. Joes. Yudin …

MUNICH, March 5: March of Millions, the two-part drama mini-series from teamWorx and EOS about the fate of East-Prussian refugees during World War II, has garnered record ratings in Germany, with public broadcaster ARD tallying 11.2 million viewers and averaging …

PALISADES PARK, March 5: Alfred Haber Distribution (AHDI) has secured the exclusive international distribution rights, excluding Latin America and the Middle East, for two new series from the International Fight League (IFL): IFL Fight Night and IFL Battleground. Co-founded by …

KNOXVILLE, March 5: Scripps Networks has signed an agreement with the National Rural Telecommunications Cooperative (NRTC) that will provide rural American telephone companies with its suite of lifestyle programming. Under the agreement, NRTC members will receive programming from HGTV, Food …