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LOS ANGELES: Mission Pictures International (MPI) has inked several sales deals with broadcasters in Latin America, Europe, North America, Australia and Africa. In Latin America, MPI made a 50-title agreement, involving inspirational and family movies, with Artforce with Canzion. The company sold …

NEW YORK: Television accounted for 62.8 percent of the total global ad dollars taken in for 2012, according to Nielsen’s quarterly Global AdView Pulse report. The $350 billion in global TV spending for the year was up 4.3 percent from 2011. …

NEW YORK: World Screen recaps some of the major themes that producers, buyers and distributors were weighing in on at MIPTV last week. In a column she wrote for World Screen Newsflash just before leaving Cannes last week, Anna Carugati, …

PORTLAND: The total time spent watching free on-demand programming has increased by more than 40 percent over the last year, according to Rentrak’s new State of VOD Report. The total number of free on-demand TV programs watched went up 29 percent …

NEW YORK: Entries are now being accepted for the competition for the Sir Peter Ustinov Television Scriptwriting Award, designed to motivate novice writers under the age of 30 outside of the U.S. and offer them the recognition that might lead to …

GLENDALE: Jason Kilar, the founding CEO of Hulu, and Lucian Grainge, the chairman and CEO of Universal Music Group, are being nominated for election as directors on the board of DreamWorks Animation. The current directors Nathan Myhryold and Richard Sherman are …

LOS ANGELES: Evolution, which represents Miramax’s catalogue of properties for licensing, has selected international sub-agents in Europe, Latin America and the Asia-Pacific region. Sub-agents in the Asia Pacific include Merchantwise in Australia and New Zealand; Asiana Licensing in Korea; Blue Sky …

LONDON: The Sound of Change Live is a global concert event presented by Chime for Change, a campaign recently launched by Gucci to support girls’ and women’s empowerment, which will be broadcast live around the world on June 1. Taking …

NEW YORK: BlackBerry Z10 users in Australia, the U.S. and the U.K. are now able to download the zeebox TV companion app from the BlackBerry World storefront. Already available for the BlackBerry 7, the app includes a full seven-day TV …

CANNES: In a business driven by ratings, market shares, budget projections and calculating numbers of all sorts, last night’s MIPTV 50th Anniversary Gala Dinner offered industry leaders a rare moment of emotion and appreciation. At the dinner, six executives were …