World Screen

SHANGHAI, January 29: News Corporation is close to finalizing a deal for private equity firm IDG to became a joint venture partner in a localized version of the community website MySpace for the Chinese market. According to Reuters, News Corp. …

ROCHESTER, January 29: According to Harris Interactive, about 32 percent of frequent YouTube users are watching less TV as a result of the time they spend online. Of the frequent YouTube users, 66 percent claim they are sacrificing other activities …

DAVOS, January 29: Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Microsoft’s chairman, Bill Gates, said that the Internet will revolutionize the television medium within the next five years, thanks to online video content and the convergence of the …

January 2007 On a recent trip to Asia, I lost track of how many people told me that I must watch Life Isn’t All Ha Ha Hee Hee, the BBC’s mini-series adaptation of Meera Syal’s fantastic novel of the same …

January 2007 By Anna Carugati It’s hard enough for a network to get one runaway hit in one season, but three is nearly impossible. Not for ABC, which has Desperate Housewives, Lost and Grey’s Anatomy, all produced by its sister …

Children are agile early adopters of new media, so channels and producers are serving up multiplatform content. By Bill Dunlap January 2007 The world of kids’ entertainment these days has truly been turned inside out and upside down by the …

TORONTO, January 26: Ellis Entertainment has appointed Sean Connolly as development director in an effort to boost the slates of both Ellis Vision and VisionTV International. Connolly worked with EPI, Proper Television and Red Apple in Canada prior to joining …

LONDON, January 26: HIT Entertainment has named Rodrigo Pizà to the position of VP of TV for Latin America. Pizà will report to Alison Homewood, HIT’s EVP of content distribution. He joins HIT Entertainment from The Locomotion Channel, where he …

BEIJING, January 26: MTV Networks China has promoted Bobby Yuan to general manager of MTV China 24-hour Channel, effective immediately. In his new role, Yuan will oversee the day-to-day business operations of the channel and monitor the channel’s strategic growth …

LONDON, January 26: Jo Clinton-Davis will join ITV as controller of popular factual from her role as the head of commissioning at UKTV. At ITV, she will be responsible for developing and commissioning a broad slate of popular factual programming. …