Kristin Brzoznowski

LOS ANGELES: Basic Lead, organizer of DISCOP markets, has confirmed that DISCOP Istanbul will not be held in 2017.

SYDNEY: Presto has arrived on Fetch TV, allowing customers to access TV shows and movies from the app directly from their television sets.

NEW YORK: According to The Harris Poll 2016 EquiTrend Study, TV networks top all other media categories in regard to brand equity, but video-streaming subscriptions are closing the gap.

NEW YORK: Dan March, managing partner at Dynamic Television, tells World Screen Newsflash how Madiba came about, discusses the appeal of the sci-fi genre and shares insight into how the production, financing and distribution company is positioning itself in the international market.

NEW YORK: The June/July NATPE Budapest digital editions of World Screen, TV Europe and TV Kids are now available, along with TV Listings.

LONDON: Dominique Delport, the global managing director of Havas Media Group and chairman of Vivendi Content, has been lined up to deliver a keynote on September 8 at the IBC2016 Conference.

BEVERLY HILLS: Netflix has placed a ten-episode order for the animated comedy Big Mouth, which comes from real-life best friends Nick Kroll (Kroll Show, The League) and Andrew Goldberg (Family Guy), in addition to acquiring the global rights for Charlie McDowell’s The Discovery.

LOS ANGELES: After more than three decades with Fox Networks Group (FNG), longtime CFO Del Mayberry is planning to retire, with Ravi Ahuja named as his successor.

Zenith’s Media Consumption Forecasts report finds that mobile internet consumption is now growing at the expense of all other media, including TV, which still dominates despite recent declines. The amount of time people around the world devote to using mobile internet is forecast to increase by 27.7 percent this year, driving a 1.4-percent increase in overall media consumption.

NEW YORK: Maria Rørbye Rønn, the CEO and director general of Danish Broadcasting Corporation, will receive the 2016 International Emmy Directorate Award.