World Screen

PARIS: The TRACE Sports channel has scored two carriage agreements that bring the service into the Russian pay-TV market for the first time. The channel, which is dedicated to sports celebrities, will launch in HD on the Russian satellite operator Tricolor TV, which has more than 10 million subscribers. Exclusive content …

MILAN, July 9: Mediaset and Sky Italia have negotiated a deal to share the rights to provide Champions League and Europa League football coverage to their pay-TV subscribers. Both of the pay-TV operators now hold the rights to offer coverage of matches featuring the Italian teams in the two tournaments over …

PARIS: Novavision has named Philippe Deleplace as its new chief operating officer.   Deleplace has been in the media and entertainment industry for close to 20 years. Prior to his newly appointed position, he spent nearly a decade serving as COO of Motors TV, a global motorsport pay-TV channel. As …

LONDON: Initial, an Endemol company, is producing a new action-oriented game show for ITV, Prize Island, which will feature pairs of contestants scouring a desert island for prizes. Alexander Armstrong and Emma Willis will host. Each episode will start with four couples arriving on the sandy beach of an island …

MOSCOW/LONDON: Miramax has made films such as Pulp Fiction and Good Will Hunting available for streaming in Russia through a new multi-year SVOD deal with the multimedia entertainment services company Stream. The move makes Stream the first Russian multimedia outlet to digitally distribute Miramax’s titles in the Russian market. Stream’s …

STOCKHOLM: Modern Times Group’s Viasat Broadcasting has scored the rights for the 2014 Winter Olympics and the 2016 Games for the Baltic region. MTG gets the first pick for each Baltic country to show one discipline from each of the Sochi 2014 and Rio 2016 Games exclusively on its free-TV …

LONDON: The BBC iPlayer has topped the mid-year rankings of the U.K. brands with the most positive buzz, occupying the slot for the first time, according to YouGov’s BrandIndex Buzz Rankings. YouGov’s survey asks respondents: "If you’ve heard anything about the brand in the last two weeks, through advertising, news …

PARIS: Nancy Dubuc, the president and general manager of HISTORY and Lifetime Networks, and Mark Burnett, the president of One Three Media, have been lined up for Media Mastermind keynote addresses at MIPCOM. Dubuc has been leading HISTORY since 2007. She began her remit at Lifetime Networks in 2010. Burnett, who …

LONDON: Niall Curran, who has been serving as the COO of Chellomedia since 2003, has been elevated to the post of president. Curran joined the Liberty Global family in 2000, focusing on the operational restructuring during the turnaround of UPC. He took over leadership of the media operations in 2002 …

LONDON: This September Alex Mahon is to take over day-to-day management of the 28 companies operating within the Shine Group as CEO, while Elisabeth Murdoch remains as chairman. Murdoch has been serving as both CEO and chairman of Shine since the company’s inception, in 2001. While Mahon takes over the day-to-day …