Japanese Service to Offer Telemundo Content

TOKYO, September 3: The
New Media Group, KK has signed a deal to bring programming from NBC Universal’s
Telemundo to World On-Demand viewers in Japan, totaling more than 560 new
episodes of hit series like Dame Chocolate, Madre Luna and Tierra
de Pasiones.

World On-Demand customers
can watch Telemundo programming on a VOD basis as part of the World On-Demand
Telemundo SVOD Pack. With ten episodes of Telemundo series to be added every
month, the service joins hundreds of other channels and national TV networks as
part of the specialist content on World On-Demand.

Randy McGraw, World
On-Demand’s chief executive, said: "We are continuing to develop the
quality and quantity of the video-on-demand offering, and we are very pleased
to bring NBC Universal Telemundo’s outstanding drama series to our customers in
Japan. So many of these series, such as Dame Chocolate and Tierra de Pasiones, continue to catch the imagination of viewers and
media alike and now all these series will be available to World On-Demand
customers whenever they want to see them."

“We are really excited to
see our digital content in one of the most important and high-quality VOD
platforms in Asia,” said Telemundo Internacional’s VP of international digital
media sales, Luis Daniel Capriles. “TNMG with World On-Demand are leaders in
the industry and they are now our key partners to increase our audience
penetration in this very significant part of the world.”

—By Kristin
Brzoznowski