Kristin Brzoznowski

Lionsgate has named Jared Goetz, a 22-year veteran of The Walt Disney Company, as president of North American television distribution, a newly created position.

WWE and Foxtel have extended their partnership into its 18th year with a new agreement to broadcast WWE programming live in Australia.

Time Warner saw its second-quarter revenues rise 5 percent to $7.3 billion, with increases across all operating divisions and a particularly strong bump from the box-office release of Wonder Woman.

RTL Group has become the largest investor in the Series A financing round of Inception, specialized in virtual reality entertainment, and will hold a 15-percent stake in the company.

FremantleMedia International has tapped Katrina Neylon for the role of executive VP of global content.

IDW Entertainment, which counts among its slate Wynonna Earp and Locke and Key, is launching a new content development, production, distribution and engagement initiative aimed at connecting with the “geek culture” audience.

Sony Corporation posted a spike in first-quarter operating income, which reached 157.6 billion yen ($1.43 billion), up 180.5 percent.

CBC and SundanceTV have partnered on the new eight-part drama miniseries Unspeakable, focused on the tainted blood scandal in Canada in the early 1980s.

Domingo Corral, head of original programming at Movistar+, as well as Facebook’s Ricky Van Veen, head of global creative strategy, and Daniel Danker, director of video product, are slated to deliver keynote speeches at MIPCOM 2017.

NBCUniversal saw 17.3 percent revenue growth and 22.6 percent Adjusted EBITDA growth in its second quarter, with a particularly strong performance from its film unit.