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LOS ANGELES: Janet Scardino has become the COO of Saban Brands, overseeing the company’s media operations across TV, digital and games. Scardino was formerly the managing director of Disney Channel in Italy and also previously held a number of posts …

NEW YORK: A new Ernst & Young study predicts that by 2015, 57 percent of revenues for media and entertainment companies will come from digital activities, as compared with 47 percent this year. The findings come from a survey, conducted with …

NEW YORK: The June/July NATPE Budapest digital editions of World Screen, TV Europe and TV Kids, which is also headed to the Licensing Expo, are now available. World Screen Hot Topic: Some Central and Eastern European markets have bounced back …

NEW YORK: Bruno Wu’s Seven Stars Media has sealed a deal to distribute content from iN DEMAND in China, while also delivering Chinese-language movies to cable VOD platforms across the U.S. Wu’s Seven Stars Media was created to develop, aggregate and distribute films …

SYDNEY: SBS has tapped Alison Sharman, who previously held roles as the director of factual and daytime for ITV and the controller of children’s at the BBC, for the new position of head of commissioning. Sharman will be responsible for leading …

LOS ANGELES: Vision Films has signed an agreement with Archeos Entertainment for the funding and development of a slate of feature films to be produced in Canada by XII Tribes Entertainment. With financial support from Archaeos, Vision Films and XII …

NEW YORK: Michael Murphy, the general manager of Beyond Distribution, talks to World Screen about the strengths of the company’s catalogue, how the distribution and production sides work together and finding new opportunities in the digital space.   At the …

NEW YORK: Ahead of this year’s NATPE Budapest, Anna Carugati, World Screen’s group editorial director, looks at the importance of an ongoing exchange of ideas between Europe and the U.S. There was a time when broadcasters around the world looked …

SYDNEY: Monica Forlano, the head of program scheduling at Australia’s Network Ten, agrees with the general consensus at the L.A. Screenings that the Hollywood studios “remain the experts in making quality content.” Like other programming executives who viewed pilots of …

NEW YORK: The latest edition of PwC’s Global Entertainment and Media Outlook predicts that digital entertainment and media (E&M) spend will account for more than 40 percent of all E&M spend in mature markets by 2017. The Global Entertainment and Media Outlook …