Sydney- Australia’s Seven Network has picked Bionic Woman, a remake of the 1970s classic, and Lipstick Jungle, from Sex and The City author Candace Bushnell, from its deal with NBC Universal International Television Distribution, which it shares with Network Ten. These series joins Seven’s upcoming US programming line-up including the Grey’s Anatomy spin-off, Private Practice, starring Kate Walsh as Dr Montgomery Shepherd; Dirty Sexy Money, a new series about the lives and … [Read more...] about Seven snags the new Bionic Woman
Channel: Companies
FremantleMedia Enterprises hands out promotions
FremantleMedia Enterprises’ (FME) TV distribution rights business has promoted Paul Ridley to Senior Vice President, Sales, Asia Pacific from Vice President, Sales. Based in FME’s Sydney office, he is responsible for TV distribution across the region and reports to David Ellender, CEO, FremantleMedia Enterprises. Also, Ganesh Rajaram has stepped up to the newly created position of Vice President, Sales, Asia, from his role of Sales Director, Asia. He continues to be based in … [Read more...] about FremantleMedia Enterprises hands out promotions
Creasey upped at Endemol International
Hilversum - Matt Creasey, previously Head of Sales, Finished Programmes at Endemol International, has been promoted to Director of Sales, Distribution. Creasey will continue to report to International Director of Scripted Programming and Distribution, Caroline Torrance. Recent deals include the sale of Endemol UK’s one hour documentary special Extraordinary Ten Year Olds to a further eight territories including Australia’s Nine Network iand BBC Knowledge, Asia. Teen Transexual has … [Read more...] about Creasey upped at Endemol International
Bloomberg Television’s news airs on Ho Chi Minh Television’s HTV7
Ho Chi Minh- Bloomberg Television’s news segment started airing on July 9 on Ho Chi Minh Television’s HTV7 in a programming co-operation which also involves technology conglomerate FTP and content distribution and production house Q.net. Bloomberg Television provides summaries of global and regional business and financial news as well as clips of key interviews, which are versioned into Vietnamese and incorporated by Q.net into a 10-minute segment which broadcasts daily at 6:00 p.m. … [Read more...] about Bloomberg Television’s news airs on Ho Chi Minh Television’s HTV7
MEASAT introduces new HDTV distribution platform for Asia
Kuala Lumpur- MEASAT Satellite Systems Sdn. Bhd. has introduced an HDTV distribution platform for international broadcasters distributing HD content across Asia-Pacific. Recently showcased at the CommunicAsia 2007 exhibition in Singapore, the new platform addresses content acquisition, MPEG-4 compression, encryption, uplink and content distribution via the MEASAT-3 satellite. Developed with play-out and uplink services providers Ascent Media and Pacific Century Matrix (PCM) from Singapore and … [Read more...] about MEASAT introduces new HDTV distribution platform for Asia
China Mobile to increase shareholding in Phoenix TV to extend mobile TV service
Hong Kong- Local media reported that China Mobile is looking to obtain a controlling stake in Phoenix TV to expand its mobile TV service to provide nationwide coverage of the Beijing Olympic Games in 2008 via 3G technology. China Mobile Group acquired 19.9% of Phoenix TV's shares in June 2006 and is currently its second largest shareholder. The two companies have been co-operating on developing and promoting wireless content, products, service and application and to expand the wireless media … [Read more...] about China Mobile to increase shareholding in Phoenix TV to extend mobile TV service