SILVER SPRING, March 10: The newly created role of international head of content for Discovery Communications is to be filled by Luis Silberwasser, who currently serves as senior VP of the content group for Discovery Networks Latin America/U.S. Hispanic and general manager of U.S. Hispanic Networks.

NEW YORK, March 9: The prime-time soap opera Dirt Game is making its premiere outside of Australia with a launch on WE tv in Asia on March 12.

TEL AVIV, March 8: Dori Media Group has sold the teen vampire series Split into 35 countries since its launch nine months ago, with the Philippines as the latest territory, and the first in Asia, to pick up the daily drama.

NEW DELHI, March 8: ESPN STAR Sports has signed a deal with Media Star Global to produce and air the Indian football reality show Super Soccer Star.

PARIS, March 8: Mooscoop has wrapped a deal with Chutti TV, Sun TV's kids' channel in India, for 725 half-hours of programming.

SYDNEY, March 5: Beyond Distribution has licensed the sixth season of Mythbusters to Discovery Networks Asia-Pacific (DNAP), which has additionally agreed to take on all episodes of the series being produced.

NEW YORK, March 4: Shine Group's chairman and CEO, Elisabeth Murdoch, was interviewed by World Screen's group editorial director, Anna Carugati, at NATPE this year.

NEW YORK, March 4: Jeff Gomez and Nathan Mayfield will be hosting a session at the MIPTV Producers' Forum—a two-day initiative organized in association with World Screen—about developing stories and concepts across multiple platforms.

NEW DELHI, March 4: Discovery Networks Asia-Pacific has scored a carriage deal for Discovery HD with the DTH platform Sun Direct, bringing the total number of channels it operates in India to six.

JAKARTA, March 4: Indonesian media conglomerate PT Media Nusantara Citra (MNC), which operates the leading terrestrials RCTI and TPI, has agreed to a multiyear program licensing deal with Disney-ABC International Television (DAIT) Asia Pacific covering series and original movies for kids and family audiences.

SYDNEY, March 4: Beyond Distribution will be offering up more than 200 hour of new content in their catalogue for MIPTV, spanning genres such as children's, factual, documentary, science and crime.

NEW YORK, March 3: The Producers' Forum is a new two-day initiative at MIPTV, organized in association with World Screen. Kicking off a series on the panelists at Producers' Forum, David Lyle, the president of Fox Reality Channel, discusses the Entertainment Master Class on selling and protecting formats.

HONG KONG, March 3: Senior executives from a range of channel operators and platforms are lined up to speak at the Asia Pacific Pay-TV Operators Summit (APOS) 2010, taking place in May in Bali, including Astro's Rohana Rozhan, Austar's John Porter and Fox International Channels' David Haslingden.

SYDNEY, March 3: Turner International Australia has hired Melissa Fitzgerald to serve as its sales director for Australia and New Zealand, effective April 6.

LONDON, March 2: The premiere of Pilipinas Got Talent, the Filipino adaptation of FremantleMedia's hit competition format, debuted on ABS-CBN with a 38.7-percent audience share.

PARIS/NEW YORK, March 1: There are 13 nominees across three categories for this year's International Digital Emmy Awards, which will be presented at a special ceremony on April 12 at MIPTV.

SÃO PAULO, March 1: Globo TV Sports is heading to Sportel Asia in Singapore next week with a package of Brazilian football matches.

HONG KONG, February 26: The Cable & Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (CASBAA) will host the 10th CASBAA Satellite Industry Forum on June 14 in Singapore at the Shangri-La Hotel.

LOS ANGELES, February 26: Comcast International Media Group (CIMG) has licensed more than 140 hours in the Asia Pacific, with sales including such titles as The Daily 10 and 2 Months, $2 Million.

LOS ANGELES, February 26: Shine International has sold Reveille's hit MTV reality series The Buried Life in 10 markets, including Australia, Latin America and the Middle East.

LONDON, February 26: KidsCo is producing a series of idents in conjunction with Astro Productions that will run on the channel's Asian feed later this year.

SINGAPORE, February 26: MediaCorp has appointed Philip Koh as managing director for its interactive media division, effective April 1.

SYDNEY, February 25: At MIPTV, Beyond Distribution is to launch the new series MovieStar, which is a collection of 104 half-hour episodes that spotlight Hollywood's A-listers.

SYDNEY, February 24: BBC Worldwide Australia has sold the new 3x90-minute contemporary re-imagining of Sherlock Holmes to Nine Network in Australia, where it will air later this year.

NEW YORK, February 24: Production is under way on a new half-hour entertainment magazine-style program, in the Qube, which is the first original series created specifically for Sony Pictures Television's worldwide ANIMAX channel.

SÃO PAULO, February 24: Globo TV International's telenovela India: A Love Story has been sold to a number of broadcasters in Asia, with negotiations ongoing for the series to air on several other outlets in the region.

HONG KONG, February 24: Celestial Pictures has inked a new exclusive five-year output deal with Media Asia Distribution to bring a range of titles to its Celestial Movies channel in Southeast Asia.

LONDON, February 24: BBC Worldwide has completed a new round of deals for the animated series Wibbly Pig, which is headed to ABC in Australia to air later this year.

SANTA MONICA, February 24: The Japanese fantasy-adventure series Deltora Quest is slated to air in Australia and New Zealand on Cartoon Network, starting this April to coincide with the re-launch of the book series of the same name.

NEW YORK, February 23: News Corporation has reached a deal to pick up a 9.09 percent stake in Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal's Middle Eastern media group Rotana for $70 million.