World Screen

NEW YORK, January 26: Time Warner’s president and COO, Jeff Bewkes, has been elected to the company’s Board of Directors, as has Motorola’s chairman and CEO, Edward J. Zander. Bewkes elevation to the board further strengthens speculation that he is …

World Screen Weekly, January 25, 2007 COUNTRY: U.S. LAUNCH DATE: October 1, 1996 NUMBER OF SUBSCRIBERS: The network currently has more than 89 million subscribers in the U.S. with carriage on all the major U.S. cable and satellite providers. OWNERSHIP: …

World Screen Weekly, January 25, 2007 At the end of December, Hugo Chávez, the president of Venezuela, announced that the broadcast license of Radio Caracas Televisión (RCTV) would not be renewed when it expires at the end of May. “There …

BRIGHTON, January 25: Architect and TV personality Charlie Luxton and supermodel Jodie Kidd are on board for Electric Sky Productions’ latest projects, What the Window Washer Saw and Fashion Avenue respectively. What The Window Washer Saw is a 10×30-minute series …

LONDON, January 25: TVF International has signed a 25-hour output deal with Al Jazeera for a range of factual programming over the next 18 months. The package includes Glories of Islamic Art, a 3×45-minute series produced for Five, as well …

MUNICH/LONDON, January 25: TV-Loonland has secured deals for its animated short series The Owl with Swedish broadcaster SVT, South African pay-TV operator M-Net and Thailand’s UBC subsidiary Cineplex Company. The Owl is a CGI co-production between TV-Loonland, Paris-based Studio Hari …

SUNNYVALE, January 25: Yahoo! will now feature content from the Sundance Channel and Expo TV on its Yahoo! video site. Yahoo! Video users will be able to view Sundance Channel’s exclusive behind-the-scenes footage from the Sundance Film festival in Park …

OXFORD, January 25: Abbey Home Entertainment has acquired the U.K. DVD rights to Novel Entertainment’s CiTV animated series Horrid Henry. Horrid Henry, based on the Horrid Henry books created by Francesca Simon, currently broadcasts on the CiTV channel and on …

SINGAPORE, January 25: SPE Networks-Asia and Dragonback Media have teamed up to create two co-branded interactive game sites for the AXN and Animax channels. The co-branded sites, axn.jumboplay.com and animax.jumboplay.com, are targeted at tech-savvy AXN and Animax viewers. Through the …

BOSTON, January 25: APT Worldwide has secured broadcast, DVD and VOD deals for the 3×1-hour high-definition docudrama series Ultimate Battles in Russia, the U.K., Scandinavia, Benelux and Greece. Central Partnership licensed the series for broadcast, DVD and VOD for Russia …