World Screen

GENEVA, January 30: In Geneva, Switzerland, today, Bob Wright, the chairman and CEO of NBC Universal and the vice chairman of GE, addressed the Third Global Congress on Combating Counterfeiting and Piracy, organized by the World Intellectual Property Organization. Read …

LOS ANGELES, January 30: Gail Berman and Lloyd Braun, two former network TV executives who were most recently seen at Paramount and Yahoo!, respectively, are teaming to launch a new venture targeted to producing TV, film and online content, the …

NEW YORK/MUMBAI, January 30: U.S. private equity firm Blackstone has made a $275 million investment in India’s Ushodaya Enterprises (UEL), parent company of the South Indian broadcasting group Eenadu TV. The investment—India’s largest ever private-equity deal—is expected to give Blackstone …

LONDON/NEW YORK, January 30: The History Channel will debut in Scandinavia on February 1, reaching approximately one million households in Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland. The deal was inked with Norway’s Canal Digital by The History Channel U.K., a joint …

ATLANTA, January 30: CNN International has teamed up with London-based Journeyman Pictures to launch World’s Untold Stories, a new weekly 30-minute documentary strand launching on February 17. The series will be broadcast each weekend to more than 200 million households …

LOS ANGELES, January 30: Kevin MacLellan, E! Networks' senior VP of international, has been upped to the newly created role of president of Comcast Entertainment Group, International, a new division created to oversee Comcast’s international entertainment properties. MacLellan’s new role …

SINGAPORE, January 30: StarHub Digital Cable will launch five new channels on February 1, including FX, taking the platform’s number of offerings to a total of 102. StarHub’s “Family Plus” tier customers will be able to access the new channels …

CHATSWORTH, January 30: Image Entertainment has secured the DVD and digital download rights from NBC Universal Television Distribution to 14 titles originally produced for the SCI FI Channel’s signature Saturday night movie franchise. In a multi-year agreement with NBC Universal …

SAN ANTONIO, January 30: A slate of channels from A&E Television Networks (AETN) will be made available on the AT&T U-verse TV lineup, along with a raft of video on demand programming. The deal covers carriage for A&E Network, The …

LONDON, January 30: The British arm of the digital entertainment outfit Buongiorno has acquired the mobile content production firm Inventa for £1 million. Inventa was co-founded by the British digital marketing agency Profero, the marketing group Slice and BBC Radio …