World Screen

NEW YORK: Van Toffler, the president of Viacom's music and Logo group, has announced his departure from the network, where he's worked for nearly 28 years. Toffler began his tenure at MTV in the business department in 1987. Since then, he has risen to a post that sees him supervising …

LOS ANGELES: Gaumont International Television has upped Roman Viaris to company CFO, while also promoting Tim Farish to head of marketing and publicity. Previously GIT’s head of finance, Viaris will now be responsible for overseeing all financial matters for the company and its projects. The exec joined GIT in 2013, …

NEW YORK: Viacom is restructuring what was three business groups into two new organizations: the Viacom Music and Entertainment Group, with brands such as MTV, Logo, VH1, Comedy Central and Spike, and the Viacom Kids and Family Group. Philippe Dauman, Viacom's president and CEO, unveiled details of the restructure in …

NEW YORK: NBCUniversal is ramping up its TV Everywhere offering, launching an authenticated, multiplatform initiative for consumers who live in a market with an NBC-owned TV station. The move will make NBC local, news, sports, syndicated, prime-time and late-night programming available to consumers with a cable, satellite or telco subscription. …

LOS ANGELES: Olivier Delfosse, formerly the senior VP of digital at the FremantleMedia group, has been appointed COO at StyleHaul. Both FremantleMedia and StyleHaul are owned by RTL Group. Delfosse was previously in charge of driving global digital initiatives at FremantleMedia and implementing strategic partnerships with YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and …

LOS ANGELES: Machinima, a digital video site and multichannel network dedicated to fandom and gamer culture, has entered into a $24 million financing led by Warner Bros. Entertainment. Warner Bros.’ participation in this funding continues the longstanding relationship between the two companies, which has resulted in such live-action web series …

NORTH HOLLYWOOD: The Television Academy has passed a set of new rules for the Primetime Emmy Awards, including further clarifying the definition between comedy and drama series and of series and limited series. Due to the dramatic increase in series production, the number of nominees for comedy and drama series …

NEW YORK: Ratings for ABC's broadcast of the 87th Academy Awards were down 12 percent from last year. In all, the awards pulled in 36.6 million viewers on Sunday night , 6.4 million fewer viewers from last year’s ten-year high. From 8:30 p.m. to 12 a.m., the 2015 Oscars telecast …

LOS ANGELES: David Smyth has been elevated from VP of sales at Twentieth Century Fox Television Distribution to senior VP of sales and development. Smyth will work with Twentieth Century Fox production executives to explore co-production opportunities for new, original content to air in the U.S. and around the world. …

BURBANK: The Walt Disney Company has released a series of WATCH authenticated products for DIRECTV customers, enabling them to access live and on-demand content from its channels on computers, smartphones, tablets, gaming consoles and connected devices. The launch includes WATCH ABC, WATCH ABC Family, WATCH Disney Channel, WATCH Disney Junior, …