Bender Scores NATPE Presales

NEW YORK, January 7:
Bender Media Services has finalized a number of new licensing agreements with
buyers across Latin America for several programs from its catalogue, including Wild
& Crazy, which has been licensed
to UCV TV in Chile.

Wolverine and the X-Men went to Mexico's TV Azteca and Record in Brazil,
while Mexico's En Pantalla and Paramount Home Entertainment in Brazil took on
the DVD rights only. Powers of the Russian Psychics will launch on Discovery in Latin America, and Daniel
Boone will launch on TC Television
in Ecuador. Sports Cartoons has
been sold to Compania Televisora Hondurena in Honduras.

Bender also concluded an
output deal with the Albavision Group for Ultimate Guinness World Records that includes Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay,
Peru, Guatemala, Nicaragua and the Dominican Republic.

Susan Bender, the
president and CEO of Bender Media Services, said, "We are extremely
pleased to be announcing these important presales. NATPE is the most important
market of the year for my company and we are looking forward to building on
this sales momentum at the market."

—By Kristin
Brzoznowski