World Screen

WARSAW: Poland’s Cyfrowy Polsat has entered into a deal with NBCUniversal International Television Distribution for the studio’s library films and new releases, which will be available on the platform’s VOD service and the ipla Internet portal. Cyfrowy Polsat’s subscribers and ipla gain access to a range of movies from NBCUniversal, including …

LONDON: Ericsson, one of the world’s largest providers of wireless networks, has agreed to buy Red Bee Media from a group led by Macquarie Advanced Investment Partners. While the acquisition is still subject to regulatory approval, the move would bring to Ericsson 1,500 employees as well as media services and …

PARIS: Formerly known as Museum HD, The Museum Channel is now being offered by Orange Romania, marking the network’s first DTH deal. The advertisement-free round-the-clock channel, which is already broadcast in France, Belgium and Portugal, focuses on the world of fine arts. It takes viewers to a number of European …

LONDON: Roger Mosey, the BBC’s editorial director and former Olympics boss, is leaving the corporation to become the master of Selwyn College at Cambridge. Mosey took on the role of editorial director back in May, reporting directly to director-general Tony Hall. He previously oversaw the BBC’s acclaimed coverage of the …

LONDON: Andy Murray’s victory in the Wimbledon men’s final on Sunday delivered the highest TV ratings of the year so far in the U.K. The final had a peak audience of 17.3 million viewers on BBC One. This is the highest audience for a Wimbledon final since at least 1990. An average …

STOCKHOLM: The cloud-based TV operator Magine has secured a further $19 million in financing through a new round of investments, and has also launched its service in beta in Spain. Magine founders Michael Werner, Matthias Hjelmstedt, Erik Wikstrom, Xavier Ritort and Hakan Tranvik raised $19 million through an agreement signed …

LONDON: The female-skewed cable network Lifetime is to make its European debut this fall, thanks to A+E Networks UK. The network joins the A+E Networks UK channels HISTORY, H2 and Crime & Investigation in the country. Lifetime will be airing dramas, original movies and factual entertainment from the U.S. and U.K. …

LONDON: The U.K.’s independent TV production sector is now worth £2.8 billion ($4.2 billion), a 14-percent gain year-on-year, according to the latest figures from Pact. This growth, measured from 2011 to 2012, is the largest annual increase in indie revenues since Pact first commissioned a financial census, in 2004. The …

LONDON: According to figures from the Advertising Association, U.K. ad spending increased 2.4 percent in the first quarter of 2013, reaching £4.14 billion ($6.2 billion), driven by healthy TV spend. The U.K. advertising market returned to pre-recession levels in 2012, when adspend surpassed the £17 billion ($25.3 billion) mark, the most …

LONDON: Viacom International Media Networks (VIMN) France has unveiled J-ONE, a brand-new channel dedicated exclusively to Asian pop culture. J-ONE, launching October 4, will air the best in Japanese animated programming across France, which is one of the largest consumer territories for manga animation, second only to Japan. The channel …