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SYDNEY: Beverley McGarvey, who was among the recipients of this year’s World Screen Content Trendsetter Awards, has been appointed chief programming officer of Network Ten, a post she has held on an acting basis since August. McGarvey took up the post …

NEW YORK: Advertising spending is up 2.7 percent worldwide, totaling $266 billion in the first half of 2012, according to Nielsen’s Global AdView Pulse report, with notable gains in Internet ad spend. Advertising budgets in Europe have shrunk, down 2.7 …

CANNES: Jason Kilar, the CEO of Hulu, delivered a Media Mastermind keynote at MIPCOM, in which he shared his perspective on the evolution of the TV industry and the ways in which digital platforms are providing new opportunities for content creators.   …

NEW YORK: World Screen looks at some of the trends and topics that emerged from the busy week in Cannes.   If it weren’t for all the talk about over-the-top television, social media and apps at MIPCOM last week, you …

LONDON: Companies from within the Banijay Group in France and the U.S. are taking part in the YouTube Original Content Initiative by creating online programming for new premium branded channels. Air Productions, in partnership with France Télévisions, launched a new …

LOS ANGELES: NATPE||Content First has a new customer-service initiative, NATPE Navigator, designed to maximize business opportunities between buyers and sellers, which the organizer will roll out for the first time at NATPE Budapest 2013. The concierge program is structured to …

NEW YORK: Top programmers from the U.K., Australia, Canada and Norway took part in the Acquisition Superpanel—What Do Buyers Want? session in the Grand Auditorium at MIPCOM, in conversation with Anna Carugati, World Screen’s group editorial director, which was followed …

CANNES: The business of negotiating rights across multiple platforms and finding ways to monetize online, on-demand services were identified as the key issues facing broadcasters today by top programmers from the U.K., Canada, Australia and Norway during the Acquisition Superpanel …

CANNES/MUNICH: Red Arrow International has sold the rights for The Taste to Australia’s Nine Network and Restless to ProSiebenSat.1 Media Group. Australia’s Nine Network picked up the rights to The Taste, a cooking competition show, for broadcast of both a …

CANNES: Rogers’ Malcolm Dunlop, Channel 4’s Gill Hay, Network Ten’s Beverley McGarvey and TV2 Norway’s John Ranelagh received their World Screen Content Trendsetter Awards in partnership with MIPCOM in Cannes today. The group received their awards at the end of …