World Screen

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 …

World Screen Weekly, July 13, 2006 CHANNEL NAME: TV 2 Zulu, Denmark LAUNCH DATE: October 15, 2000 OWNERSHIP: TV 2 Zulu is a wholly owned subsidiary of TV 2/Danmark, which is itself state owned, but privatisation is expected within a …

World Screen Weekly, July 13, 2006 VP of Communication CHUM Limited When Mary Powers earned her degree in economics, she had no idea she would spend 18 years working at the Toronto-based broadcaster CHUM Limited. “After university, I went into …

HILVERSUM, July 13: Endemol International is looking to boost its finished programs distribution business in Latin America with the appointment of Ariel Tobi as sales manager for the region. In the newly created post, Tobi, based in Argentina, will responsible …

NEW YORK, July 13: 4Kids Entertainment has promoted Daniel Barnathan to president of its 4Kids Ad Sales subsidiary. Previously executive VP of sales, marketing and promotions, Barnathan will now oversee the unit of 4Kids that sells advertising on the Saturday …

LONDON, July 13: Channel 4 has commissioned Lion Television produce a one-hour documentary about the strange occurrences following the discovery of the mummified remains of a prehistoric man known only as Oetzi in Italy in 1991. The Curse of the …

MIAMI, July 13: Todobebe, the producers of the Spanish-language Todobebe TV show about pregnancy and parenting that airs on Telemundo in the U.S., are working with branded entertainment and product placement specialists Branded Pictures and AIM Productions to develop an …