World Screen

LONDON, September 29: Content from the National Geographic Channel is being made available to subscribers of 3’s mobile TV service in the U.K. Programming, including Seconds from Disaster and Air Crash Investigation, will be provided in two-hour video loops, supplemented …

TORONTO, September 29: Jane Root, the executive VP and general manager of Discovery Channel in the U.S., will be one of the keynote speakers at the World Congress of Science and Factual Producers (WCSFP), set for November 11 to 14 …

NEW YORK, September 29: For the first time ever, MTV will air the season finale of one of its series—Two-A-Days—exclusively on MTV.com. The show, from MTV’s News & Docs division, focuses on a high school football team. It has already …

AMSTERDAM, September 29: Van den Ende & Deitmers Crossmedia Fund, the venture capital fund set up by Joop van den Ende and Hubert Deitmers, has acquired a 30-percent interest in Fruitlounge Media, a developer of interactive television formats. Fruitlounge Media …

STOCKHOLM, September 29: Modern Times Group’s Viasat Broadcasting is working with Danish broadband network operator Dansk Bredband to distribute its channels over IPTV. The move follows the successful launch of similar IPTV offerings in Sweden and Norway in 2004 and …

PARIS, September 29: A variety of Twentieth Century Fox’s current and library films will be offered on-demand to subscribers of CANALPLAY, Groupe CANAL+’s VOD platform. “We continue to pursue distribution opportunities which make it more convenient for consumers to access …

World Screen Weekly, September 28, 2006 President NBC Universal International As the newly appointed president of NBC Universal, one of Peter Smith’s priorities is to grow the company’s businesses outside the U.S. “NBC Universal sees the international landscape valued at …

World Screen Weekly, September 28. 2006 COUNTRY: U.S. YEAR IT LAUNCHED: September 1994 OWNERSHIP: IFC is part of IFC Companies, a division of Rainbow Media Holdings, which is a subsidiary of Cablevision Systems Corp. NUMBER OF SUBSCRIBERS: 39 million DESCRIPTION: …

LONDON, September 28: As part of its foray into kids’ programming, Parthenon Entertainment has appointed Karina Stanford-Smith as head of children’s production. With Parthenon now managing S4Ci’s existing catalogue of kids’ programming, alongside new projects, the company currently has a …

MUNICH, August 28: SevenOne International is teaming with Singaporean-based distributor 6-6-8 to roll out local call-TV windows based on its interactive quiz station 9Live across Southeast Asia. 6-6-8 will distribute 9Live and produce the interactive quiz shows for the region. …