World Screen

LOS GATOS: Netflix’s third-quarter financial results showed a loss of 800,000 subscribers since last quarter, though revenue was up 49 percent, to $822 million, from 2010. Net income was $62 million for the quarter, a gain of 63 percent from …

LOS ANGELES: At News Corp.’s annual shareholders meeting, more than a third of votes were cast against the re-election of chairman Rupert Murdoch’s sons James and Lachlan to the company’s board. James Murdoch, News Corp.’s deputy COO, received 433 million …

NEW YORK:  Nuno Bernardo, the CEO of beActive Entertainment, talks about the opportunities and challenges of working in the transmedia landscape in this video interview.   With audiences now on different platforms, the traditional linear viewing experience has changed and …

Russia is already the fifth-largest television advertising market in Europe. TV ad spending rose to about €3.1 billion last year, according to Aegis Media, up 15 percent from 2009, and the upward trend continues. There is indeed plenty more room …

The protests taking place across the Middle East are bringing dramatic changes to the broadcasting landscape. For years any rebellious coup d’état would simply target the presidential palace, followed quickly by the local radio station. Control of those two gave …

October 31-November 3 Grand Hyatt Hotel, Hong Kong Executives from across Asia’s pay-television landscape will descend on Hong Kong’s Grand Hyatt Hotel this month for the annual CASBAA Convention. Simon Twiston Davies, the CEO of the Cable & Satellite Broadcasting …

Kids’ content companies attending Brand Licensing Europe are devising new ways to stand out in an increasingly crowded marketplace. Brand Licensing Europe (BLE) was held last week at London’s Olympia exhibition center, with its organizers, Advanstar, predicting that attendance was …

MIAMI/TEL AVIV: Dori Media Group has sold the dramatic game-show format Wrong Number to SBT in Brazil and three seasons of Split to a network in Italy. Wrong Number is a game show produced by Tanin Productions, creator of Crocodile …

LOS ANGELES: At this year’s American Film Market (AFM), 27 films selected for the American Film Institute’s AFI FEST 2011 presented by Audi will be showcased. The American Film Market takes place in Santa Monica from November 2 to 9, …

LONDON: BBC Worldwide Channels has appointed Nina Laricheva to VP of commercial development for its business in EMEA. Laricheva will report to Ian McDonough, the senior VP and general manager of EMEA at BBC Worldwide Channels. She will be responsible …