World Screen

MEXICO CITY, October 26: TV Azteca has announced its third quarter results, with revenues up 7 percent to Ps. 2,342 million ($218.4 million) and profit up 16 percent to Ps. 487 ($45.4 million). “We achieved outstanding revenue as a result …

LONDON, October 26: British media regulator Ofcom has said that it will amend its Broadcasting Code to allow for the sponsorship of commercial television channels and radio stations. The U.K. has allowed individual programs to be sponsored for the last …

LOS ANGELES, October 26: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios (MGM) has made The Addams Family, the animated Pink Panther series and the sci-fi classic The Outer Limits available for purchase and download on the iTunes Store. The deal covers 22 half-hour episodes from …

PHILADELPHIA, October 26: Comcast Corporation’s triple-play bundling of cable, high-speed Internet and telephony services helped drive third quarter revenues up 22 percent to $6.4 billion, with an operating income that was up 46 percent to $1.2 billion. Announcing the results, …

TOKYO, October 26: Second-quarter profit at the Sony Corporation plummeted 94.1 percent to 1.7 billion yen ($14 million), due in large part to the recall of the company’s laptop batteries. The company posted revenues of 1.85 trillion yen ($15.7 billion), …

HONG KONG, October 25: Karen Davidson has been appointed senior VP of advertising sales at STAR, reporting to Bruce A. Oltchick, the company’s executive VP of advertising sales, distribution and marketing. Based in Hong Kong, Davidson will oversee STAR’s advertising …

AMSTERDAM, October 25: Eyeworks Entertainment has named Vincent ter Voert as its program director, effective January 1, 2007. Ter Voert will oversee the Eyeworks division with business director Jan van Beek. He has spent the last year and a half …

ATLANTA, October 25: Steve Koonin, who oversees TNT and TBS, has been tapped to fill the newly created post of president of Turner Entertainment Networks, adding TCM and Court TV to his mandate. Reporting to Koonin are Marc Juris, Court …

VANCOUVER, October 25: Omni Film Productions was given the greenlight for several productions this week, including two shows for CBC: a one-hour pilot for the family series Left Coast and the two-hour documentary special West Coast Tsunami. Omni also received …

LONDON/NEW YORK, October 25: Over the past 12 months, Sally Miles’ iD Distribution has secured deals across the Asia-Pacific region on 170 hours of programming from Rainbow Media’s stable of 15 VOOM HD brands. Deals include China's CCTV HD’s acquisition …