SAN FRANCISCO, September 2: The new Apple TV device unveiled yesterday allows users to watch movies and TV shows purchased and rented from the iTunes Store, as well as content streamed from Netflix and YouTube, directly on the television set.

LORETO, September 1: Namco Bandai is to represent the latest Winx Club: Rockstar video game from Rainbow, with Nintendo DS distributing the game in Europe, the Middle East and Africa starting this November.

BURBANK, August 31: Mitchel Musso of Hannah Montana and Doc Shaw of The Suite Life on Deck are to headline their own comedy adventure series on Disney XD, Pair of Kings.

SYDNEY/TORONTO/LOS ANGELES/LONDON, August 30: A group of multiplatform and transmedia creators have joined forces to create StoryLabs, an organization for the education and mentoring of storytellers.

ALVISO, August 26: On revenues that fell 10.5 percent to $51.5 million in the second quarter, TiVo’s net loss widened from $2.7 million to $15.3 million.

BEIJING, August 25: Marking its first-ever digital deal in China, BBC Worldwide Sales & Distribution has landed a content supply agreement with Internet portal Sohu.com that sees its drama, children's and educational programming licensed over two years.

LONDON/UNIVERSAL CITY, August 25: NBC Universal Digital Studio has partnered with Syfy to distribute FCU: Fact Checker's Unit for the U.S. and international markets, marking the first time a digital series has been distributed globally at launch.

ENGLEWOOD, August 24: DISHOnline.com is a new video portal from DISH Network that allows customers to watch both live and recorded TV, with instant access to thousands of movies, shows, clips and more.

NEW YORK, August 23: Ahead of DISCOP Africa 4, which kicks off September 1, World Screen offers up a look at buying and selling trends in the region.

BOSTON, August 23: A new study on media-consumption trends found that more than 50 percent of individuals who have seen 3D movies plan to purchase a 3-D capable set in the next three years.

MUNICH, August 23: A new long-term license agreement grants ProSiebenSat.1 Group the non-exclusive VOD rights to content from CBS Studios International for its maxdome service.

PETALING JAYA, August 23: Malaysian conglomerate Media Prima Berhad has launched an online video site, TonTon, featuring movies and dramas from the Hollywood studios, as well as Asian content.

SAN FRANCISCO/BURBANK, August 20: Warner Bros. Television Group's Studio 2.0 has signed a deal with online video syndication company AlphaBird to launch four original web series on Dailymotion.

LONDON, August 19: Two separate reports indicate that Britons are watching more TV than ever, with Thinkbox reporting that per-week viewership is up by 2 hours in the first half of this year, while Ofcom has found that consumers are spending 45 percent of their waking hours watching TV, using their mobiles and other communications devices.

NEW YORK, August 19: FiOS TV customers can now access select Adult Swim, Cartoon Network and truTV programming online, following the online launch of content from sister Time Warner channels TNT and TBS in June.

PHILADELPHIA, August 17: Comcast has released the results of its second annual “TV Pulse Survey,” indicating 62 percent of consumers have watched prime-time TV series through technologies that include VOD, DVR and the Internet.

SCOTTSDALE, August 17: Revenues from web-to-TV video content will rise from $2 billion to more than $17 billion by 2014, at which point there will be 57 U.S. million U.S. broadband homes watching full-length online video on the TV set, In-Stat reports.

UNIVERSAL CITY, August 17: Cameron Death has been promoted to senior VP and general manager of NBC Universal Digital Studio.

HOLLYWOOD, August 16: A second season of Wilson & Ditch: Digging America is in production from The Jim Henson Company.

STAMFORD, August 13: ESPN has sublicensed the multimedia rights to select matches of England's Barclays Premier League through a three-year deal with Fox Sports International.

LONDON, August 12: By the end of this year, more than 50 broadcasters and pay-TV operators will be offering 3D television services to the home, according to a report from IMS Research.

NEW YORK, August 12: Viacom has appealed a previous court decision which ruled that YouTube did not infringe on its copyrights.

NEW YORK, August 11: Steve Grimes has been named senior VP of digital media at Comedy Central.

NEW YORK/BEVERLY HILLS, August 10: Films from the premium service EPIX–including titles from joint-venture owners Paramount, Lionsgate and MGM—will be available for instant online streaming by Netflix subscribers as part of a deal announced today.

NEW YORK, August 9: The April/MIPTV edition of World Screen has been named the best-printed trade magazine by the Gold Ink Awards, the most prestigious awards ceremony for the printing industry.

MUNICH, August 6: ProSiebenSat.1 Media and RTL Germany have announced plans for an Internet platform that allows public and private TV channels in Germany and Austria to put content online, where it can be streamed by users for free.

NEW YORK, August 6: Television is still the most popular platform for viewing videos, according to a recently completed a survey from Nielsen of more than 27,000 online consumers in 55 countries.

ENGLEWOOD, August 6: DISH Network has unveiled the first and only app specifically designed for the iPad that allows users to control their TVs and manage their programming remotely.

SHANGHAI, August 5: Tudou, a leading video-sharing site in China, has completed a $50 million Series E funding round that was led by Temasek Holdings, the SIngapore Government's investment arm.

NEW YORK/LONDON, August 3: Babelgum is launching a competition for animation and anime projects aimed at online, mobile and linear platforms that will culminate in a special public screening program at the Hamptons International Film Festival in October.