World Screen

LOS ANGELES, February 8: Just a day since announcing the launch of its new CBS Mobile division, CBS has launched three websites for mobile users: a CBS Mobile Store and two new advertising-supported WAP sites for sports and news. The …

BRISTOL, February 8: ESPN is relaunching its shuttered mobile service in deals announced today with Verizon Wireless and MediaFLO. The sports broadcaster shut down its mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) last year after failing to attract enough subscribers. In the …

BURBANK, February 8: The Disney Channel mega hit High School Musical will get a big-screen treatment in 2008 with Haunted High School Musical, it was announced today by the Walt Disney Motion Pictures Group. High School Musical has reached more …

BURBANK, February 8: Michel Lecourt, the VP and general manager of French-speaking territories at Warner Bros. International Television, passed away today after a long battle with cancer. He was 58. In October 1967, Lecourt, then 18 years old and a …

NEW YORK, February 8: The total number of TV households in the U.S. is expected to grow 47 percent to 163.7 million by 2050, according to Nielsen Media Research. Further, the total number of TV households will grow 66 percent …

LONDON, February 8: Virgin Media, the rebranded NTL/Telewest mobile, telephone, broadband and cable TV company, today unveiled Virgin Central, a hybrid linear/on-demand channel offering up content from Buena Vista International Television and Alliance Atlantis, among other providers. Virgin Central is …

LONDON, February 8: BSkyB announced today that it is developing a subscription TV service for launch on digital terrestrial television (DTT) this summer. Sky has not yet revealed which of its channels will be available on the platform, which will …

NEW YORK, February 8: News Corporation has confirmed its long speculated plans for a business news network, with FOX Business Channel slated to launch in 30 million homes in the fourth quarter of this year. The network will be developed …

BURBANK, February 8: The Walt Disney Company, driven by DVD sales, the performance of its cable networks and the sale of its stake in E! Networks, has recorded a first-quarter profit of $1.7 billion, more than double the $734 million …

LOS ANGELES, February 7: Cookie Jar Entertainment has appointed Josette Bonte to the newly created position of VP of digital media. Based in Cookie Jar’s Los Angeles offices, Bonte will report to Ken Locker, the senior VP of digital media. …