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LONDON: ZenithOptimedia is predicting that global advertising spending will increase by 3.9 percent this year, reaching $518 billion. Over the next two years, adspend is forecast to rise by 5.6 percent. The growth is expected to be led by "Rising …

GENEVA: This year’s Rose d’Or Awards cover the categories of game show, reality and factual entertainment, sitcom, comedy, entertainment and arts, with the winners to be named on May 30 in Brussels. The U.S. game show Oh Sit! is facing …

LONDON: Two new appointments have been made within NBCUniversal’s pay-TV channels business, one of which sees Satpal Brainch becoming the executive VP and managing director of Universal Networks International (UNI). Brainch takes up the new role on May 8, reporting to …

MONTREAL: Ludia is offering Facebook users a new game called The Price is Right Bingo, which blends elements of the classic game show and game. The Price is Right Bingo will feature The Price is Right-themed bingo rooms, where players …

LONDON: NBCUniversal International Television is refreshing its flagship Universal Channel brand, which is getting a new look, logo and tagline. Kicking off April 28 in Asia, Universal Channel will be updated with a new "100% Characters" positioning. The worldwide rollout …

LOS GATOS: Netflix added more than 3 million streaming members in the first quarter of 2013, bringing the total to 36 million-plus, the company unveiled in its Q1 financials, where it also announced that it is letting its pact with …

LOS ANGELES: Mission Pictures International (MPI) has inked several sales deals with broadcasters in Latin America, Europe, North America, Australia and Africa. In Latin America, MPI made a 50-title agreement, involving inspirational and family movies, with Artforce with Canzion. The company sold …

SEATTLE: Amazon Studios has made its six kids’ pilots and eight comedy pilots available for free instant streaming so that viewers can watch and provide feedback that will help decide which concepts get full orders. There are six children’s pilots …

NEW YORK: World Screen recaps some of the major themes that producers, buyers and distributors were weighing in on at MIPTV last week. In a column she wrote for World Screen Newsflash just before leaving Cannes last week, Anna Carugati, …

NEW YORK: Television accounted for 62.8 percent of the total global ad dollars taken in for 2012, according to Nielsen’s quarterly Global AdView Pulse report. The $350 billion in global TV spending for the year was up 4.3 percent from 2011. …