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LONDON: ZenithOptimedia has revised its global ad-growth projections for this year from 4.6 percent to 4.2 percent following Japan’s devastating earthquake and tsunami and the political turmoil across the Middle East, which have knocked an estimated $2.4 billion from global …

LORETO: Nickelodeon has inked a deal with Rainbow, securing the international broadcast rights to PopPixie for a number of territories across the world. As part of the deal, the 52×13-minute animated comedy will air on Nickelodeon in the U.K., Germany, …

MIAMI: Don Browne is retiring from his post at NBCUniversal after six years as the president of the company’s Spanish-language media division, Telemundo Communications Group. Browne, who turns 68 this May, joined Telemundo as COO in 2003, before being upped …

PREMIUM: BBC One controller Danny Cohen and BBC Daytime controller Liam Keelan discuss the channel’s programming strategy. How do you schedule the channel from morning through late night, Monday through Sunday? Daytime strips include Homes Under the Hammer, Bargain Hunt, …

CHARLOTTE: Bender Media Services is set to represent the preschool series Raggs for distribution in the U.S. and Latin American territories. The live action and animated musical TV series produced from 2006 to 2008 in Sydney currently airs on public …

This interview originally appeared in the MIPTV 2011 issue of World Screen.   One on One with Viacom’s Philippe Dauman   Perhaps no other major media company has as strong a connection with children, tweens, teens and young adults as …

This article originally appeared in the MIPTV 2011 issue of World Screen.   Despite audience fragmentation and a multitude of smaller screens and devices competing for viewers’ attention, television is as resilient as ever.   To paraphrase Mark Twain, the …

Current-affairs documentaries that help put complex world issues into context are always in demand. Stuff happens, to recall the words of Forrest Gump.   And it keeps happening, meaning that the one genre that documentary filmmakers will never have to …

Despite tight budgets, intense competition and lots of product in the market, many independent children’s producers are finding ample opportunities globally. It has been quite a while since independent producers of children’s programs have said their business was anything but …

  NEW YORK: NEW YORK: In this video interview, Arnold Schwarzenegger talks to World Screen about teaming up with the legendary Stan Lee, Andy Heyward’s A Squared Entertainment (A2) and Archie Comics to create The Governator, his new multiplatform animated …