World Screen

PHILADELPHIA: Comcast Corporation is opening up in-home streaming for live and on-demand content this year on tablet devices, with further plans to offer some 3,000 hours of on-demand content through a new feature on the Xfinity TV iPad app. Customers …

High up on wish lists this past holiday season were ereaders and tablets. Indeed, at book retailing giant Barnes & Noble, its number one selling gift of the holiday season was the new NOOKcolor Reader’s Tablet. It, together with other …

SCOTTSDALE: As the global unit shipments of PVR products set a new record in 2009, and are expected to top that for 2010, In-Stat predicts that shipments will surpass 50 million by 2014. Driven by the consumer demand to time-shift …

ENGLEWOOD: The Weinstein Company has taken a 25-percent stake in Starz Media, which includes Anchor Bay Entertainment, among other TV and home-entertainment assets. In a separate deal, Anchor Bay signed a multi-year U.S. distribution agreement for new theatrical content from …

LONDON: Sky Atlantic HD will launch to some 10 million customers across the U.K. and Ireland on February 1, with a lineup that includes the recently acquired CBS Studios International series Blue Bloods and The Borgias. The new service aims to …

NEW YORK: Total advertising expenditures in the first nine months of 2010 were up 6.4 percent from a year ago, finishing the period at $94.06 billion, according to new data from Kantar Media. Adspend during the third quarter of 2010 …

BEIJING: The Chinese online video streaming site Youku.com has secured a deal with Warner Bros. to bring the box-office hit Inception to Chinese audiences via its on-demand paid service Youku Premium. Youku will stream the movie through its Youku Premium …

After steering the remarkable expansion of Universal’s global channel portfolio in the past few years, Roma Khanna, the president of Universal Networks International, sees room for yet more channel launches, while focusing on adding first-run programming to build channel brands …

NEW YORK: A ten-episode order has been given by USA Network to WWE Tough Enough, a non-scripted series from World Wrestling Entertainment and Shed Media US. The series, slated to debut April 4, will follow 12 individuals who are vying to …

LOS ANGELES: Hasbro Studios and Italy’s Mediaset have signed an overall programming agreement for shows such as G.I. Joe Renegades and Pound Puppies, along with entering into a licensing deal for series-related merchandise. Mediaset is to broadcast Hasbro’s Transformers Prime, …