MTVNI Signs Deals from Music, Kids’ Catalogue

LONDON: MTV Networks International (MTVNI) has firmed up several deals on its slate of music awards shows, as well as for a host of Nickelodeon programming.

Malaysia’s TV8 picked up the MTV Movie Awards 2009, while CCTV3 in China licensed the MTV Europe Music Awards 2008. Los Premios 2009 and the Video Music Awards 2009 will air on Campus TV Hondurena in Honduras and the BET Awards 2009 have been picked up by Scandinavian broadcasters TV2 in Denmark and TV Norge in Norway.

Mediaset in Italy went for a second series of Nickelodeon’s iCarly. Preschool hits Dora the Explorer and Go, Diego, Go! scored pickups in Colombia. Go, Diego, Go! is set to broadcast for the first-time on Caracol TV. New seasons, plus a special, of Dora the Explorer are to air on Senal Colombia. Seasons one and two of Nickelodeon’s Kappa Mikey will launch on Mexico’s Canal Once this year. Through a new multi-territory deal with Belleville, hit shows Avatar and Fairly Odd Parents will also broadcast across the region.