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BURBANK, September 3: Time Warner Cable and Disney/ABC Television Group have reached an agreement that will keep such channels as ABC, ESPN and Disney on the cable platform, along with supplying a range of new content to subscribers.
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.
LONDON, August 26: BT Vision and The Walt Disney Company EMEA have unveiled a new VOD service, ABC TV On Demand, launching September 15, which will provide a range of popular U.S. series to British users.
LONDON, August 26: MGM titles are to be made available online and on Internet-enabled devices through the LOVEFiLM Player in the U.K.
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.
TEL AVIV, August 18: Dori Media Group has sold its interactive cross-platform reality format uMan to Mega TV in Greece.
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.
LOS ANGELES, August 16: Syd Vinnedge has teamed up with Chuck Thomas and Simone Thorogood to create Pop Monkey Productions, which has already secured a development deal with ITV Studios.
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.
NEW YORK, August 12: Viacom has appealed a previous court decision which ruled that YouTube did not infringe on its copyrights.
ATLANTA, August 11: Cartoon Network is to premiere 22 fresh episodes of Star Wars: The Clone Wars for a third season, which kicks off with a special one-hour premiere event on September 17.
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.









