World Screen

LONDON, July 14: Zonemedia (formerly Zone Vision Networks) has appointed Philip Mordecai as commercial sales manager for Central and Eastern Europe. Mordecai will report to Mark Young, commercial sales director, and will work on maximizing commercial revenue from Zonemedia’s business …

LOS ANGELES/LONDON, July 14: Fox TV Studios-UK (FtvS-UK) has appointed Damon Pattison as head of entertainment as it works to expand its slate of prime-time entertainment and game show programming in the British market. Pattison joins FtvS-UK—formerly named Scream Films, …

BARCELONA, July 14: Neptuno Films has secured a range of TV, IPTV, mobile, home video and merchandising deals in the Asia Pacific on key kids’ shows like Danny&Daddy and Dougie in Disguise. In China, via a deal with X-Bell, 300 …

DOHA, July 14: Al Jazeera has resumed plans to set up a bureau in Madrid, a process begun two years ago by journalist Tayseer Allouny, who remains in a Spanish prison after being convicted last year on charges he provided …

LOS ANGELES, July 14: USA Network has acquired the cable television rights to Disney's Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest from Buena Vista Television, and has greenlit a pilot that will be executive produced by Lorne Michaels. The Johnny …

LONDON, July 14: Mobile Streams aims to boost its mobile entertainment business in the Asia Pacific with the acquisition of Hong Kong-based Mobilemode in a cash and stock deal. Founded in 1999, Mobilemode delivers mobile entertainment content and services to …

TORONTO, July 14: Alliance Atlantis Communications has licensed the second window rights for the CSI franchise in numerous markets, generating about $250 million in license fees. Ted Riley, the executive managing director of international content distribution for Alliance Atlantis, says …

WASHINGTON, D.C., July 14: The Federal Communications Commission has approved the $17-billion sale of Adelphia Communications Corporation to Time Warner and Comcast Corporation. In clearing the deal that was first announced in April 2005, Adelphia also permitted the exchange of …

MUNICH, July 14: German pay-TV platform Premiere has reached a deal with cable operator Unity Media’s Arena that gives it the rights to air Bundesliga matches. In December, Premiere lost out to Unity Media on the television rights to the …

NEW YORK, July 14: For the second quarter of this year, NBC Universal’s profits fell 10 percent from $979 million to $882 million, on revenues of $3.86 billion. For the first half of the year, meanwhile, revenues rose to $8.34 …