World Screen

LONDON: The newly formed Zodiak Kids will see all of Zodiak Media Group’s kids’ production and distribution entities come under one banner. Zodiak Kids will encompass Marathon Media, Tele-images Productions, Zodiak Active Kids Entertainment Division and The Foundation as well …

LONDON/MUNICH/HAMBURG: Endemol Germany has picked up a majority stake in the production company set up by the co-producer and presenter of the local version of The Money Drop. Endemol has taken an undisclosed stake in Herr P, the venture founded …

CULVER CITY: The recently launched 3D network 3net, a joint venture from Sony, Discovery and IMAX, has scheduled a further ten programs to premiere this month. 3net, which debuted February 13 on DIRECTV, will be rolling out original 3D series …

NEW YORK: New Nielsen data reports that time spent on online video in the U.S. grew by 45 percent since January 2010, while the actual number of online video viewers was up just 3.1 percent. Nielsen estimates 143.9 million unique online …

PARIS: At the inaugural Connected Creativity event at MIPTV, Hans Vestberg, the president and CEO of Ericsson, will deliver a keynote entitled Shaping the Networked Society. Vestberg will outline his vision of a networked society and its impact on the …

PREMIUM: Co-productions are "vital" to the programming mix at Smithsonian Channel, according to David Royle, the executive VP of programming and production at the U.S. factual network. The Smithsonian Institution is an American treasure. As the world’s largest museum complex, …

  This interview originally appeared in the MIPCOM 2010 issue of TV Asia Pacific.    The numbers are staggering—446 million pay-TV homes by 2014, reports Media Partners Asia (MPA) in its latest study of the Asia-Pacific multichannel business. This is …

This interview originally appeared in the MIPCOM 2010 issue of World Screen.   When Globosat launched in 1991, it changed the television landscape in Brazil with its offering of pay-TV channels. At first, pay TV was a service only the …

The U.K.’s Royal Television Society yesterday revealed the shortlist for its prestigious Television Journalism Awards. Amid stalwarts like BBC News and Sky News was a relatively new face, Al Jazeera English, which is in the running for News Channel of …

Rainbow has sold a number of animated shows around the world and later this year its leading property, Winx Club, will be premiering on Nickelodeon in the U.S. and in other territories. Rainbow’s founder and CEO, Iginio Straffi, talks about …