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MONTREAL: Stingray Digital Group has acquired the Festival 4K channel, which has an international customer base.

BEVERLY HILLS: Netflix has acquired U.S. and select international rights for Ricky Gervais’s upcoming film David Brent: Life on the Road, a spin-off of his hit comedy series The Office.

SYDNEY: Presto has arrived on Fetch TV, allowing customers to access TV shows and movies from the app directly from their television sets.

NEW YORK: According to The Harris Poll 2016 EquiTrend Study, TV networks top all other media categories in regard to brand equity, but video-streaming subscriptions are closing the gap.

NEW YORK: Dan March, managing partner at Dynamic Television, tells World Screen Newsflash how Madiba came about, discusses the appeal of the sci-fi genre and shares insight into how the production, financing and distribution company is positioning itself in the international market.

NEW YORK: The June/July NATPE Budapest digital editions of World Screen, TV Europe and TV Kids are now available, along with TV Listings.

LONDON: Dominique Delport, the global managing director of Havas Media Group and chairman of Vivendi Content, has been lined up to deliver a keynote on September 8 at the IBC2016 Conference.

According to a new global study, virtual reality will play a decisive role in the future of OTT video, with a majority of OTT companies agreeing that the technology is here to stay. Level 3 Communications commissioned the study, titled The OTT-Video Services Market: Today's Trends and What Is Next for 4K, HDR, HFR and VR and conducted by Unisphere Research in partnership with Streaming Media.

BEVERLY HILLS: Netflix has placed a ten-episode order for the animated comedy Big Mouth, which comes from real-life best friends Nick Kroll (Kroll Show, The League) and Andrew Goldberg (Family Guy), in addition to acquiring the global rights for Charlie McDowell’s The Discovery.

LOS ANGELES: After more than three decades with Fox Networks Group (FNG), longtime CFO Del Mayberry is planning to retire, with Ravi Ahuja named as his successor.