World Screen

ENGLEWOOD/SANTA MONICA, November 8: A range of feature film titles from Lionsgate will be made available on a VOD and pay-per-view basis on EchoStar Communications Corporation’s satellite platform, DISH Network. “Lionsgate is a great addition to both DISH On Demand …

OSLO/LUXEMBOURG, November 8: SBS Broadcasting has reached a deal for its CANAL+ premium pay-TV channels to remain on the Canal Digital Nordic DTH platform until 2010. Canal Digital has also secured the rights to broadcast SBS's Nordic commercial channels—the Swedish …

REDMOND/NEW YORK, November 8: The NBC Universal Digital Studio, which develops multiplatform content, has entered into a deal to supply the web-only series A Big Life With Sissy Biggers to MSN Video. MSN Video users will have exclusive access to …

LONDON, November 8: NTL, which today reported a £104.2 million third quarter loss, versus last year’s £53.5 million loss, is set to rebrand as Virgin Media in the first quarter of 2007. Despite the wider loss, the company did record …

LOS ANGELES, November 8: Paramount Pictures has signed a reported $10-million, four-year first-look deal with Martin Scorsese for a range of programming across all media, including feature films, TV movies and series, documentaries and digital content. The acclaimed filmmaker has …

EL SEGUNDO, November 8: The DIRECTV Group’s third quarter profits more than tripled to $370 million, on revenues of $3.67 billion, a 13-percent increase on the previous year. At DIRECTV U.S., revenues were up to $3.4 billion, and ARPU jumped …

MILAN, November 8: Silvio Berlusconi’s Mediaset has reported a net profit for the third quarter of 36.6 million euros, down 3.7 percent on last year, on revenues of 677.4 million euros. Announcing its results, the Italian media company also confirmed …

HONG KONG/MADRID, November 8: Spanish telecommunications giant Telefónica is in talks to acquire a stake in Hong Kong telco PCCW, operator of the now Broadband TV platform. Richard Li, PCCW’s chairman, put his 23-percent interest on the market earlier this …

LOS ANGELES, November 7: Bennett Media Worldwide (BMW) has notched up a range of online deals on it slate of high-definition reality programming, including an agreement with CustomFlix in the U.S. CustomFlix has licensed 50 titles from BMW’s library for …

SINGAPORE, November 7: The Fashion TV channel is launching on Singaporean cable platform StarHub’s digital tier on November 13. StarHub has ramped up its digital cable offerings of slate, taking on the Star Chinese Channel, Fox Crime and National Geographic …