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NEW YORK: The Muppets leads off the Tuesday night lineup for ABC's 2015-16 prime-time schedule, which sees its Wednesday comedy block and Thursday Shonda Rhimes series staying in place. Mondays will also stay the same, pairing Dancing with the Stars …

NEW YORK: Ricardo Guise, president and publisher of World Screen, has announced the promotions of Mansha Daswani to editor and Kristin Brzoznowski to executive editor. Daswani has been with World Screen since 2002. In addition to her role as editor …

NEW YORK: The TV Latina app has been updated for the L.A. Screenings, providing program listings, news and a host of other resources to help users make the most of their time while in Los Angeles, all delivered in Spanish. …

NEW YORK: Bassem Youssef, an Egyptian TV personality known as the "Jon Stewart of the Arab World," has been lined up to present this year's International Emmy Awards Gala in New York on November 23. Youssef is the former host …

NEW YORK: In April, of all the new programs to debut globally, Netflix's Marvel's Daredevil stirred up the most buzz in social media, with some 137,000 tweets, according to The WIT. Netflix made all episodes of Daredevil available at once …

LONDON: According to ZenithOptimedia’s new report Top Thirty Global Media Owners 2015, Google is now bigger in terms of media revenue than Disney and Comcast combined. Google’s dominance as the world’s largest media owner has increased, with the gap between …

CHICAGO: Consumers want a world of "hyper-personalized" à la carte pay-TV entertainment, according to new research from Irdeto, moving away from bundles that contain channels they're not interested in. The research indicates that many consumers would consider changing their primary …

NEW YORK: The WorldScreen.com L.A. Screenings Preview provides you with a number of useful services in one location, including a downloadable PDF of company suite numbers at the Hyatt Century Plaza, a restaurant and hotel directory for Los Angeles, a …

NEW YORK: 21st Century Fox reported net income of $975 million for its third fiscal quarter, compared to $1.05 billion in the prior-year period, with gains in its cable network programming unit offset by declines at its TV segment. The …

MUNICH: ProSiebenSat.1 saw its revenues increase by 12.7 percent in the first quarter of 2015, with a strong performance in the German ad market, digital activities and production business in the U.S. The group posted revenues of 654.6 million euros …