World Screen

NEW YORK/LOS GATOS: Netflix streaming subscribers will continue to have access to film and TV library titles from NBCUniversal, with the companies announcing a multiyear renewal of their licensing agreement today. Under the terms of the deal with NBCUniversal Domestic Television …

LOS ANGELES: Spirit Digital Media, a digital-content company backed by Content Media Corporation, is developing a TV comedy series inspired by an autobiographical feature from quarterly magazine Slake about an aspiring actor turned drug-runner who landed up in a federal prison. Spirit …

LOS ANGELES: Oprah Winfrey is to become permanent CEO as well as chief creative officer at her joint-venture channel with Discovery Communications effective this fall. Winfrey, who is also chairman of OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network, has enlisted Erik Logan and Sheri …

LONDON: FremantleMedia is restructuring its European and Asia-Pacific businesses, with European heads Monica Galer and Daniela Matei now reporting to COO Gary Carter, while Asia-Pacific chief Ian Hogg will report directly to CEO Tony Cohen. The move results in the …

SINGAPORE: Thai platform TrueVisions is the latest operator to add AXN HD—also available in South Korea, Singapore, Malaysia and Vietnam—to its lineup. The channel is one of 11 HD networks carried by TrueVisions in its digital cable service. The other Sony Pictures …

BRUSSELS: The European Commission is seeking responses to its Green Paper on the online distribution of content and the creation of a "digital single market" for member states. The Green Paper explores how the regulatory framework needs to be adapted for …

LONDON: Issuing its latest ad expenditure forecasts, ZenithOptimedia notes that television is the largest contributor to global growth, accounting for 49 percent of new ad dollars between 2010 and 2013, while its rising share of the ad pie shows no …

LONDON: News Corporation announced today that it is dropping its efforts to take 100-percent control over BSkyB amid mounting opposition to the proposed merger. "We believed that the proposed acquisition of BSkyB by News Corporation would benefit both companies but …

LOS GATOS: Netflix has unveiled a new pricing structure for its U.S. customers, nixing a current tier that offers both unlimited streaming and DVDs by mail and launching a new DVD-only plan, in addition to the existing streaming-only plan. The new …

LOS ANGELES: The reality production company Collins Avenue, co-owned by Content Media Corporation, has upped Mike Aho to VP of factual programming and Michael Hammond to VP of production. Aho was previously the VP of development and Hammond held the …