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NEW YORK: While 2016 as a whole delivered revenue gains for CBS Corporation, the company posted a slightly weaker Q4 as advertising and content licensing revenues fell.

NEW YORK: World Screen Newsflash’s Anna Carugati met with Swedish directing duo Måns Mårlind and Björn Stein to discuss the genesis of Midnight Sun, their shared aesthetic vision and what common themes are uniting people globally nowadays.

MIAMI: The Canada Media Fund (CMF) and the Jerusalem Film Fund of the Jerusalem Development Authority (JDA) are launching an initiative to support co-development and co-production of audiovisual content between Canadian and Israeli producers operating in Jerusalem.

MADRID: As of today, the Olympic Channel is being offered in Chinese, French, German, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese and Latin American Spanish, in addition to English.

MENLO PARK: Facebook has confirmed that it is launching a new app for set-top boxes that will allow viewers to stream videos on their TVs.

UNIVERSAL CITY: Universal Filmed Entertainment is taking a minority stake in Amblin, joining fellow investors such as Entertainment One (eOne), Participant Media, Reliance Entertainment and Alibaba Pictures.

SILVER SPRING: Discovery Communications' fourth-quarter revenues increased 2 percent year on year to $1.67 billion, with a nice lift at the U.S. networks.

LONDON: Magnify Media has appointed two new senior staff members, Sarah Diggins and Natalia Sterlikova, who are responsible for format and program sales to Asia, CEE and the Middle East, respectively.

NEW YORK: Of all the new programs that launched globally in January, BET's The New Edition Story stirred up the most buzz on social media, according to The WIT.

LONDON: Turner EMEA has hired Marc Goodchild, a seasoned TV producer and digital exec, as its head of digital content strategy and product for Europe, the Middle East and Africa.