World Screen

NEW DELHI, October 9: Walt Disney Co. has formed a partnership with India’s Jaipuria Group to expand its presence and sell its products in the fast-growing Indian market, according to reports. Disney will release details of the agreement next week. …

LOS ANGELES, October 9: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios has reached a deal with New Line Television, a division of New Line Cinema, for the U.S. syndication rights to the independent studio’s motion picture packages and series programming for the next two years. …

MOUNTAIN VIEW/SAN MATEO, October 9: Google is in discussions with YouTube to purchase the highly successful video-sharing website for as much as $1.6 billion, according to multiple reports. YouTube, which distributes over 100 million video clips per day, most of …

CANNES, October 9: Rainbow Media is set to begin rolling out the VOOM HD channel internationally, culling the best content from its suite of high-definition channels in the U.S., with a carriage deal already in place in Scandinavia with Canal …

SYDNEY, October 9: FOXTEL is set launch a science fiction channel in Australia on December 1 featuring content such as the acclaimed series The 4400 and the entire Star Trek library. The 24-hour SCI FI channel will also feature Medium, …

CANNES, October 9: Buena Vista International Television’s slate of first-day announcements at MIPCOM includes a new deal with TF1 for a range of Disney releases to be made available on demand on the TF1 Vision website. Almost 100 titles are …

LONDON/NEW YORK, October 9: A&E Television Networks is set to launch The History Channel HD in the U.K. and Ireland on BSkyB in the fourth quarter of this year. This is the first high-definition version of The History Channel; an …

CANNES, October 9: At a press conference in Cannes today, the International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences announced the nominees for the 34th International Emmy Awards, with Brazil and Germany each receiving a record five nominations. There are a …

May 2006 By Anna Carugati One of the big stories in the children’s television business this year is the three-hour Saturday morning block that DIC Entertainment will be programming on CBS starting in September. CBS’s Saturday Morning Secret Slumber Party …

June 2006 By Anna Carugati When Ronald Lauder founded Central European Media Enterprises (CME) in 1994, he believed that people living in former Soviet block countries, who had known nothing but state-run television, were ready for TV stations that offered …