World Screen

SÃO PAULO: Zodiak Brasil has been purchased by Carla Affonso, the company’s CEO, and local partner Patrick Siaretta, the owner of Teleimage, with plans to rebrand the outfit as Cygnus Media. The ownership is being transferred from Zodiak Americas. The company will retain a first-look arrangement with Zodiak Rights for …

MIAMI: HBO Latin America has been appointed to handle affiliate sales for the pay-TV channel Telemundo Internacional in Latin America, excluding Mexico and Brazil. Telemundo Internacional offers telenovelas, news segments and variety shows, including Corazón Valiente, Flor Salvaje, Caso Cerrado, Suelta la Sopa, Noticiero Telemundo, Al Rojo Vivo and Un …

BUENOS AIRES: The Argentine dramedy series The Man of Your Dreams has launched on Movistar TV in Spain, with both seasons available on VOD in that country. The series first aired on Argentina’s Telefe; its freshman season consists of 13 episodes and its second run is made up of 11 …

LOS ANGELES: Rive Gauche Television has sold a bevy of titles to various Latin American networks. Discovery Latin America went for several series, including The Illegal Eater, and renewed My Strange Addiction and The Dog Whisperer. Mexico’s MVS Multivision nabbed Homicide Hunter and Race to the Scene, while Brazil’s Globosat …

ENGLEWOOD: Fusion, the joint-venture network from Univision Communications and Disney/ABC Television Group, has launched nationwide in the U.S. on the DTH platform DISH. Delivering original news, sports and entertainment programming for "young, multicultural viewers," Fusion rolled out in October. DISH is the first platform to offer nationwide carriage of the …

MIAMI: Cisneros Media Distribution (CMD) is heading to this month’s NATPE Europe with a programming roster made up of telenovelas, a new tele-series and products from indie producers. Among its highlights are the telenovelas Sweet Thing and Emerald Heart, and the tele-series Criminal MasterMind. The company is also slated to …

MEXICO CITY: The Federal Telecommunications Institute (IFT) of Mexico has determined that "preponderant" or dominant communications companies América Móvil and Grupo Televisa cannot hold the exclusive broadcast rights to four major sporting events. Those events, per the IFT, are “the Mexican national football team’s matches (men’s major category); the opening and …

SÃO PAULO: The two-day Brazil TV Forum kicked off today at the World Trade Center in São Paulo, bringing together 70 speakers and a slew of participants representing both local and international pay- and free-TV channels. This year’s theme is the type of television that the Brazilian market wants to build …

LOS ANGELES: Several hires have been made for the executive teams at the Latino-focused channel NUVOtv, with Bill Hilary leading the shakeup as the new president of SíTV Media, the network's parent company. Hilary, formerly the executive VP of programming for NUVOtv, assumes the newly created position effective immediately. He'll report to …

LONDON/MIAMI: In an effort to bolster its Latin American TV operations, NBCUniversal has named Klaudia Bermudez as senior VP and general manager of the region for Universal Networks International (UNI). Bermudez will start her new role on June 2 and will be based in Miami, where she’ll report to Ken …