World Screen

TORONTO, September 15: Breakthrough Entertainment has announced deals with ION Health in the U.S. and Astral Media’s Historia in Canada on its slate of medical and historical programming. The medical shows Little Miracles (seasons 3 to 5) and Patient Files …

UNIVERSAL CITY, September 15: Universal Studios Consumer Products Group has appointed Playmates Toys as the U.S. master toy licensee for the upcoming animated television series The Land Before Time, which launches in the spring on Cartoon Network. The merchandising campaign …

LONDON, September 15: Fox Reality in the U.S. is teaming with Sky One and Talent Television in the U.K. for a new reality series that will chronicle entertainment producers Nigel Lythgoe and Ken Warwick as they work to set up …

HOLLYWOOD, September 15: Just a day after announcing an on-demand deal on Survivor: Cook Islands with Rogers Cable in Canada, CBS Paramount International Television has inked a pay per view deal on the series with Bell ExpressVu. This is the …

HILVERSUM, September 15: Endemol has purchased a 51-percent stake in Callactive, a specialist in interactive television formats in Germany and Switzerland, for an undisclosed sum. Endemol has options to further increase its stake in the future. Callactive, based in Munich, …

WASHINGTON, D.C., September 15: Ricardo Salinas Pliego, the chairman of TV Azteca, has agreed to shell out $7.5 million to settle fraud charges by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in the U.S. In addition, former TV Azteca chief executive …

NEW YORK, September 15: Published reports in the U.S. indicate that News Corporation is considering offloading its 34-percent stake in leading satellite platform DIRECTV to Liberty Media. In return for the DIRECTV stake, Liberty Media would trade its 19-percent interest …

World Screen Weekly, September 14, 2006 LAUNCH DATE: April 2002 OWNERSHIP: The N is part of Nickelodeon’s digital channel portfolio in the U.S. and is owned by Viacom. DESCRIPTION: The N is on the air everyday from 6:00 p.m. to …

World Screen Weekly, September 14, 2006 Despite the blast of warm, sunny weather that tempted people to frolic outdoors, a record number of attendees (44,808, to be exact) entered Amsterdam’s dark and cavernous RAI complex to sample the latest in …

HONG KONG, September 14: David Butorac, currently the group COO of Malaysia’s Astro All Asia Networks, has been tapped to fill the newly created position of president of platforms at STAR. Reporting to CEO Michelle Guthrie, Butorac will be responsible …