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NEW YORK, June 5: United Nations (UN) deputy secretary-general Dr. Asha-Rose Migiro, and Bindi Irwin, daughter of Crocodile Hunter star Steve Irwin, celebrated the launch of the new Discovery Kids Channel series, Bindi: The Jungle Girl at the UN headquarters …

SYDNEY, June 5: Following a successful market at MIPTV in April, Beyond Distribution has concluded a raft of new sales throughout Europe and Asia and for its factual entertainment catalogue. Spin Music in the U.K. licensed 12 episodes from the …

NEW YORK, June 5: HBO and NBC came out on top at the 66th annual Peabody Awards yesterday night, with HBO capturing five awards and NBC picking up four. NBC garnered awards for The Office, Scrubs and Friday Night Lights …

TORONTO, June 5: Sullivan Entertainment has picked up the worldwide distribution rights for the new award-winning film Love is Work, which will be released theatrically in Canada this week. From filmmaker Johnny Kalangis, Love is Work stars Fabrizio Filippo (Billable …

NEW YORK, June 5: Bill Nelson has been named the chairman and CEO of Home Box Office. He was previously the company’s COO. HBO also announced a new senior leadership structure and has promoted three veteran HBO executives—Harold Akselrad, Eric …

HONG KONG, June 5: Daniel Shum has been appointed the VP of consumer strategy and research for Disney Channel Asia Pacific. Based in Hong Kong, Shum will direct all brand and consumer research studies in the region and help define …

NEW YORK, June 5: In the first meeting between the Bancroft family, which controls Dow Jones & Co., owner of The Wall Street Journal, and Rupert Murdoch, one of the main topics was News Corporation's relationship with the Chinese government, …

BURBANK, June 5: In another move to revamp NBC Universal’s TV entertainment operations, Katherine Pope has been appointed president of NBC Universal Television Studio. Pope replaces Angela Bromstad, who, according to The New York Times, is expected to be assigned …

LOS ANGELES/MEXICO CITY, June 5: Carlos Sandoval, the managing director of content acquisitions at Mexican media giant Televisa, offers World Screen Newsflash his view of the new shows presented at the L.A. Screenings. Sandoval was quite bullish about the shows …

NEW YORK, June 5: Mike Volpi, previously with Cisco Systems, has been appointed the new CEO of the Internet TV platform Joost, succeeding the company’s founding CEO Fredrik de Wahl, effective immediately. Wahl will remain at Joost as chief strategy …