Top Stories

NEW YORK, August 21: The Associated Press (AP) has reached an agreement with NBC Sports and NBC Olympics to be the exclusive news agency for the online distribution of select NBC-produced text content and video links related to the 2008 …

NEW JERSEY, August 20: Alfred Haber Distribution has secured deals for the new weekly series Hollywood Uncensored, to be carried this fall on Five, Seven Network, Denmark’s TV2, Norway’s TV3, Kanal Fem in Sweden and MBC in the Middle East. …

HARRINGTON PARK, August 20: Cary Grant: The Leading Man, the fourth title released from Janson Media’s Hollywood Collection, is now available for all television, home-entertainment and new-media markets worldwide. Narrated by Richard Kiley, Cary Grant: The Leading Man was originally …

SYDNEY, August 20: Courtney Gibson, currently the head of arts, entertainment and comedy at ABC TV in Australia, has been appointed the network’s executive head of content creation, effective November 5. In this newly created position, Gibson will lead and …

LOS ANGELES/LONDON, August 20: SDI Media Group, an international provider of foreign-language subtitling and dubbing services, has named Roger Flynn to the new role of president of international for Europe and Asia. Flynn will oversee SDI’s expanding businesses in Europe, …

BURBANK, August 20: The Friday prime-time premiere of High School Musical 2, executive produced by Bill Borden and Barry Rosenbush, attracted 17.2 million viewers, ranking as the most-watched basic cable telecast in history. High School Musical 2, which premiered on …

LOS ANGELES, August 20: Paramount Pictures and DreamWorks Animation have announced that they will exclusively support the HD DVD format instead of Sony’s Blu-ray technology. The exclusive HD DVD commitment will include all movies distributed by Paramount Pictures, DreamWorks Pictures, …

BASKING RIDGE/LOS ANGELES, August 20: Verizon Wireless and CBS Mobile have teamed to offer full-length commercial-free episodes of the Late Show with David Letterman and The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson to subscribers of Verizon’s V CAST Video service, …

LONDON, August 20: Endemol UK has secured a 25-percent stake in digital entertainment producer and distributor MoMedia International. As part of the investment, Peter Cowley, the managing director of digital media at Endemol UK, has joined the board of MoMedia …

LOS ANGELES, August 20: LATV Networks, which operates a bilingual music and entertainment network for U.S. Hispanic audiences, has received an undisclosed investment from the Post-Newsweek Stations group. Post-Newsweek Stations now has a minority stake in the national network, distributed …