Top Stories

TOKYO, March 2: Harry Tanaka has been promoted to VP of sales at Buena Vista International Television Japan (BVITV-J), reporting to Paul Candland, the SVP and MD of Walt Disney Television International Japan. In his new role, based in Tokyo, …

NEW YORK, March 2: Viacom saw traffic to its MTV, Comedy Central and Nickelodeon websites increase over the past few weeks, since it ordered YouTube to remove about 100,000 of its clips after the two companies failed to reach a …

LONDON, March 2: A slate of clips from the BBC’s entertainment and news content will be made available online via deals announced today with the Google-owned content sharing site YouTube. Financial terms were not disclosed for the non-exclusive partnerships inked …

LONDON, March 1: BSkyB’s five basic channels were pulled from Virgin Media last night after the two companies were unable to come to an agreement on the terms of a new carriage deal. As a result, Virgin Media’s 3 million …

LONDON, March 1: A restructuring at MTV Networks International will result in the elimination of 250 jobs, the Viacom-owned operation said today, as part of a move to focus on high-growth businesses and markets and boost operating margins. Among those …

HAMILTON, March 1: Central European Media Enterprises has announced fourth quarter revenues of $214.3 million, a 41 percent gain, while full-year revenues grew 50 percent to $603.1 million. Net income for the quarter, however, fell 24 percent to $26.2 million …

LONDON, March 1: ITV has admitted that it inadvertently overcharged viewers who used the red button on their Sky set-top boxes to vote for contestants on the last season of The X Factor. Between October 14 and December 16, viewers …

CULVER CITY/BURBANK, March 1: Columbia Pictures has inked a deal to show an exclusive one-minute clip of the upcoming Spider-Man 3 during the broadcast of Heroes on Monday, with an extended six-minute clip due to premiere on NBC.com. The third …

LONDON, March 1: Channel 4 is expanding its broadband VOD service 4oD, making all of its commissioned content available free-of-charge for seven days after its original broadcast, and introducing advertising opportunities. The 4oD platform launched in December offering some free …

BURBANK, March 1: Victoria Beckham, the wife of British soccer player David Beckham and a former Spice Girl, has signed a deal with NBC for a new 6×30-minute reality series from Simon Fuller's 19 Entertainment for premiere this summer. Currently …