World Screen

NEW YORK, November 15: Top U.S. food manufacturers and advertisers have proposed guidelines to control the promotion of junk food to children through a voluntary tightening of standards and new requirements on advertising to kids on television and in video …

DOHA, November 15: Al Jazeera English, the English-language news and current affairs channel based in the Middle East, launched today in more than 80 million cable and satellite homes across the globe. The channel, with anchor teams in broadcast centers …

LONDON, November 15: Channel 4 plans to launch its video-on-demand media player service called 4oD on December 6. 4oD will allow users to view Channel 4 programs online for up to 30 days after their first transmission. According to Channel …

LOS ANGELES, November 14: Kat Garcia has joined Davis Public Relations (DPR) as VP of publicity and will help manage the company’s trade and consumer clientele by developing, executing and pitching publicity campaigns to domestic and international media outlets. Garcia …

LONDON, November 14: Mercury Media and Aggregator Limited have appointed Ben Ross as head of acquisitions for their new co-venture broadband documentary channel joiningthedots.tv. joiningthedots.tv will offer a wide range of factual programming, including current affairs, history, observational, polemic, arts, …

NEW YORK, November 14: The International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences has announced the departure of Georges Leclere, senior VP for international outreach. Leclere will leave his position at the end of the year and will be available as …

BUCHAREST, November 14: Romania’s Acasa TV, a cable channel that reaches 60 percent of the country’s households, has renewed its agreement with Globo TV International in a deal that covers 350 hours of TV Globo productions to be broadcast in …

OTTOWA, November 14: Amberwood Productions has sold all 39 half-hour episodes of the animated series The Secret World of Benjamin Bear to TV2 Norway. “TV2 is a great home for the series and we are delighted to be partnering with …

LOS ANGELES, November 14: Buena Vista Television has secured 14 of the 15 top markets in the U.S. for the off-network syndication of Grey’s Anatomy. The hit ABC series will launch in the fall of 2009 and the stations that …

BURBANK, November 14: Warner Bros. Advanced Digital Services is launching Saturday Morning Forever as part Hanna-Barbera.com, offering two hours of cartoons per week made up of 80 percent classic Hanna-Barbara shorts and 20 percent original content. The site is targeted …