World Screen

LONDON, December 8: British media regulator Ofcom has said that ten percent of U.K. households will not have access to DTT service Freeview’s full suite of channels following the 2012 analogue switch off. Three of the six Freeview “bundles” will …

WATERBURY, December 8: American teens spend more than 72 hours per week online, on their mobile phones, watching television, listening to music or playing video games, according to the Harrison Group’s recently released VNU Teen Trend Report, which surveyed 1,000 …

NYON, December 8: UEFA has unveiled new broadcast deals in the U.S., Asia, the Middle East and Latin America for EURO 2008, which is being held June 7 to June 29, 2008, in Austria and Switzerland. "We will have [a …

BEIJING, December 8: Chinese authorities have banned any new foreign investment in television and film companies, according to a report in the Financial Times. In an interview with the FT, Zhu Hong of the State Administration of Radio, Film and …

World Screen Weekly, December 7, 2006 Rick Feldman President and CEO NATPE The media industry has certainly debunked the old adage, “the more things change, the more they remain the same.” Over the course of the last 15 months the …

World Screen Weekly, December 7, 2006 YEAR IT LAUNCHED: 1991 OWNERSHIP: The ownership of HBO Central Europe is divided up between Home Box Office, Inc. (33 percent); Sony Pictures Television International/Columbia Tri-Star (33 percent); and Buena Vista International Television (33 …

NEW YORK, December 7: Douglas Perlman has been named as president of IMG Media for North America, succeeding Robert Dalton, who has been tapped to fill the new position of chief creative officer of IMG Media Worldwide. Both executives will …

LONDON, December 7: Tinopolis is restructuring Mentorn, moving the production subsidiary’s drama output to a new venture, Daybreak Pictures, that will be run by Mentorn’s head of drama, David Aukin, and executive producer, Hal Vogel. Aukin will be managing director …

LONDON, December 7: Channel 4 International has closed deals on two new documentaries from Pioneer Productions: Life Before Birth and In the Womb Animals. Life Before Birth, also known as In the Womb, which follows the development of a single …

LONDON, December 7: FremantleMedia’s clip sales division, Fremantle Archive Sales, has acquired the worldwide representation rights to several Asian HD documentary titles from Singapore’s Caldecott Productions International (CPI). “HD programming is a defining market trend and we are delighted to …