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BURBANK: Warner Bros. Consumer Products (WBCP) has appointed company veteran Preston Kevin Lewis as senior VP of retail business development.

BERLIN: Among the selection of films Artist View Entertainment has to offer is the mixed martial arts (MMA) movie Chokehold.

The churn rate for OTT video services is 19 percent of U.S. broadband households, according to Parks Associates, meaning that roughly one in five households has canceled a streaming service in the last 12 months.

PARIS/LOS ANGELES: Gaumont has established a U.S. feature-film division, naming Johanna Byer to the newly created position of VP of creative affairs to oversee the unit.

NEW YORK: Actress, author and producer La La Anthony has entered into an exclusive production partnership with ITV America that will see the creation of a range of projects in the music, urban and pop-culture spaces.

NEW YORK: CBS Sports Digital has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Scout Media, which filed for bankruptcy a few months back.

NEW YORK: MTV and VH1 have entered into a first-look production and talent deal with executive producer and TV personality Terrence Jenkins.

LOS ANGELES: OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network has placed a 38-episode order for the new Tyler Perry comedy series The Paynes, which is a spin-off of House of Payne.

SHERMAN OAKS: ITV Studios America has hired Dwayne Shattuck as the company's executive VP of production, effective immediately.

NEW YORK: Scott Jones, the president of Artist View Entertainment, talks to World Screen Newsflash about the complexities of working in the VOD arena, including managing windows, and the importance of delivering platforms the type of niche content they’re looking for.