World Screen

TORONTO, July 18: Corus Entertainment’s 2006/07 kids’ programming slate includes a rebranded Saturday-morning lineup at YTV, the company announced today. YTV, sister network Treehouse and Discovery Kids Canada will be rolling out 20 new series in the 06/07 season, together …

BUDAPEST, July 18: Sony Pictures Television International’s AXN channel has hit the 5-million-household milestone in Central Europe, where it is available in Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Romania, Moldova and Bulgaria. In announcing the channel’s gains, Stephen White, the …

BURBANK, July 18: CBS is gearing up for its 2006/07 season with its new “Outernet” strategy aimed at finding off-screen means to promote its new slate of shows. In unveiling the initiative, CBS said that it was planning on rolling …

LONDON, July 18: Over the next three years, BSkyB is going to invest £400 million into its new broadband offering unveiled today, with the platform’s 8 million subscribers set to receive the base high-speed Internet package for free. Unveiling Sky …

BURBANK, July 18: The merged UPN/WB network The CW launches on September 20 with a two-hour premiere of the seventh season of Tyra Banks’ reality show America’s Next Top Model. World Wrestling Entertainment’s Friday Night Smackdown makes its CW debut …

PARIS/LONDON, July 18: Dutch cable platform Casema is to be acquired by private equity firms Cinven and Warburg Pincus for 2.1 billion euros in a deal with the Carlyle Group, Providence Equity Partners and GMT Communications Partners. Casema provides cable, …

LOS ANGELES, July 18: A senior management restructure has been announced at Universal Pictures under recently installed chairman Marc Shmuger and co-chairman David Linde, with promotions for Rick Finkelstein, Jimmy Horowitz and Michael Joe. Rick Finkelstein has been promoted to …

ENGLEWOOD, July 18: The share price of satellite-TV operator EchoStar Communications rose to a 17-month high yesterday following speculation that DIRECTV majority shareholder News Corporation is mulling a bid for the company. A merger of DIRECTV and EchoStar’s DISH Network …

LONDON, July 17: Rachel Innes-Lumsden, recently appointed to the new role of creative director of development of the BBC’s Factual & Learning division, has named three new development heads. Alistair Pegg has been appointed as the head of development for …

LONDON, July 17: Cartoon Network U.K. executive Dominic Gardiner has been named as director of programming at Jetix UK. Gardiner will join Jetix in September. His mandate includes programming, acquisitions, scheduling and on-air promotions at Jetix UK, with a strong …