World Screen

January 2007 By Anna Carugati It seems that anywhere you turn these days you can see people enjoying content in some new—often portable—way. On laptops, cell phones, iPods, while on vacation, on public transportation, in doctors’ offices, and even at …

LONDON, January 22: James Murdoch is said to be planning to step down as the chief executive of BSkyB later this year to take up a post at News Corporation headquarters, wire reports indicate. The Mail on Sunday yesterday reported …

SAN FRANCISCO, January 19: Gonzalo Ferreyra has been promoted to VP of sales, publishing and home video at VIZ Media, effective immediately. Ferreyra will continue to report to Hidemi Fukuhara, the president and CEO of VIZ Media. He will oversee …

PORT WASHINGTON, January 19: KOCH Vision has acquired the North American home video rights to four more seasons of the hit Australian drama McLeod’s Daughters from Southern Star International. McLeod’s Daughters, produced by Millennium Television and Nine Films and Television …

DUBAI, January 19: More than 75 buyers have confirmed their participation at the fifth Middle East Showcase by TV France International, taking place at the Dusit Hotel in Dubai on January 24 and January 25. The buyers include channel directors, …

MEXICO CITY, January 19: Universal Channel in Latin America is expanding into the mobile arena with the launch in Mexico of a site delivering exclusive content from the network to Telcel subscribers. The site, www.universalchannel.mobi, will give users access to …

HONG KONG, January 19: Celestial Pictures has inked a deal with the online movie distributor Jaman Inc. that makes a range of titles from the Shaw Brothers library of Chinese-language features available for online download in the U.S. and Canada. …

LOS ANGELES, January 19: Amp’d Mobile has inked content distribution deals with the NBA, CSTV and Dime and Bounce Magazines to broadcast live basketball games and highlights for NBA and NCAA games, as well as top summer basketball tournaments. Amp’d …

PARIS, January 19: Marathon International has licensed the kids’ series Team Galaxy to RTL2 in Germany for launch this fall. The German broadcaster has picked up 52 episodes of the show to launch this September. GMTV in the U.K., La …

MIAMI, January 19: MTV Networks Latin America has licensed the U.S. edition of the Endemol format Exposed, as well as the rights to develop its own version of the dating show. Exposed uses Layered Voice Analysis (LVA) to let its …