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NAIROBI/PARIS: TV Loves Africa, a new event set up by Basic Lead, the organizers of DISCOP Africa, is to take place from October 30 to November 2, 2012, in Johannesburg, South Africa. Seven events will take place under one roof …

DALLAS: Recorded TV programs in Western European multi-device homes are more popular than live TV, finds Parks Associates’ Connected Consumer in Europe report. When given a choice of new TV features—including 3DTV, online video access and multiscreen services—47-percent of broadband …

PREMIUM: George Bodenheimer, the president of ESPN and ABC Sports and co-chairman of Disney Media Networks, tells World Screen Newsflash about serving fans through a “best available screen” strategy. Perhaps no one knows the ESPN fan better than George Bodenheimer. …

SANTA MONICA: Hundreds of titles from the Miramax film library will be offered digitally for the first time in Latin America under a new deal with Netflix. Netflix members in Latin American territories such as Mexico, Brazil and Argentina will …

NEW YORK/WARSAW: Sundance Channel Global has launched an HD video-on-demand service in Poland on UPC Polska, with titles such as The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret as well as the music series London Live. Indie films such as Screw Cupid, Uncle …

PARIS: PGS Entertainment’s Invisible Network of Kids (I.N.K.) has scored new deals in territories such as the Middle East, Turkey, Ireland and Kosovo. The show is headed to MBC3 in the Middle East, ATV’s Minika in Turkey and TG4 in …

LONDON: Joss Duffield has been appointed head of international sales at Entertainment One (eOne) Family. Duffield will be based in eOne’s London office and will report to Olivier Dumont, the managing director of Entertainment One Family. She will be responsible …

PARIS: Nelonen Finland has commissioned Solar Television, a Banijay Group company, to produce the game show Faces to air in early 2012. Solar Television will produce 14 one-hour episodes of the game show. Faces is a quiz show format in …

NEW YORK: Alexandra Smith and Ayn Prince have been made directors of programming for Hallmark Channel and Hallmark Movie Channel, respectively, following appointments made by Crown Media Family Networks. Crown Media Family Networks is a division of parent company Crown …

BUENOS AIRES/LONDON: Production has begun on Violetta, the first original live-action series created by Disney Channel Latin America and Disney Channels Europe, Middle East and Africa. Violetta is about a teenager who returns to her native Buenos Aires and finds …