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Multi-Cultural & International Edition 12/14/06 Good Morning. It's Thursday, December 14, 2006, and this is your first early morning Multi-Cultural briefing. HISPANIC MARKET: Anime Network has signed linear carriage deals with Puerto Rican cable providers One Link and Liberty Cablevision (as of January 21, 2007). These deals, which represent more than two-thirds of the island, will bring in 178,000 new subscribers. The channel has secured additional 24/7 linear deals in Missouri, Texas, Florida and Wisconsin, with launches on Longview, Optical Entertainment Network (January 2007), Home Town Cable (December 15) and Community Antenna (December 15), respectively. Fox Pan American Sports (FPAS) has teamed up with MSN to create a Hispanic online sports destination at www.foxsportsla.msn.com . The new site will offer fans and marketing partners Spanish-language editorial content, sports applications and exclusive online video from the FPAS networks, Fox Sports en Espanol and Fox Sports Latin America. Content and presentation will be customized for users in the U.S., Mexico and South America to reflect each region's sports interests. MSN will offer all video streaming via MSN Video.The sites also will offer special coverage and features for events and Latin American tournaments, including the Copa Toyota Libertadores and Copa Nissan Sudamericana. Si TV has launched on Time Warner Cable El Paso on digital channel 461. Anita Santiago Advertising has been picked by Nielsen Media Research as its Spanish-language agency of record targeting to U.S. Hispanic market. Top 5 Broadcast Spanish Language Primetime Program Live +SD ratings for the week of December 4-10, 2006** UNIV Fea Mas Bella (M- F M-F) 22.5 NHTI HH Rtg UNIV Don Francisco Presenta (Wed 10p) 17.5 NHTI HH Rtg UNIV Heridas de Amor (M- F, 7p) 16.1 NHTI HH Rtg UNIV Mundo de Fieras (M- F, 9p) 15.9 NHTI HH Rtg UNIV Aun Hay Mas… (Sun 7p) 15.5 NHTI HH Rtg *Source: Nielsen Media Research Note: NHTI Ratings are based on 11.63 million Hispanic TV Homes ** Please note that Nielsen Media's rating parameters are listed for some shows that air Monday-Friday to include the 5 day average instead of listing each individual weekday. Top 10 Broadcast English Language Primetime Programs Live +SD ratings in Hispanic TV Homes for the week of December 4-10, 2006 NBC Sunday Night Football (Sun 820p) 8.7 NHTI HH Rtg FOX Family Guy (Sun 9p) 5.0 NHTI HH Rtg NBC Heroes (Mon 9p) 4.9 NHTI HH Rtg ABC Extreme Makeover: Home Ed (Sun 8p) 4.8 NHTI HH Rtg FOX Simpsons (Sun 8p) 4.8 NHTI HH Rtg CW Friday Night Smackdown (Fri 8p) 4.7 NHTI HH Rtg NBC Sunday Night NFL Pre-Kick (Sun 810p) 4.5 NHTI HH Rtg FOX Family Guy (Sun 930p) 4.4 NHTI HH Rtg FOX House (Tue 9p) 4.4 NHTI HH Rtg FOX American Dad (Sun 8p) 4.3 NHTI HH Rtg *Source: Nielsen Media Research Note: NHTI Ratings are based on 11.63 million Hispanic TV Homes AFRICAN AMERICAN MARKET: Radio One, Inc. and the Minority Media and Telecommunications Council have created the John W. Jones Legal Education Fund (the "Jones Fund"), in memory of John W. Jones, Radio One's General Counsel, who passed away on December 3, at the age of 38. Through the Jones Fund, the MMTC will train law students, as well as attorneys beginning their legal careers, as "John W. Jones Fellows" in the practice of public interest and civil rights law before the FCC. The Fellows' work will focus on the advancement of minority entrepreneurship in the nation's media and telecommunications industries. Donations can be made to the "John W. Jones Legal Education Fund" at Minority Media and Telecommunications Council, 3636 16th Street, NW, Suite B-366, Washington, DC 20010. African American television homes in the US represent 13,450,000 households. Here are the Live +SD rankings for the week of December 4-10, 2006 - highest rated primetime network programs in African American TV homes according to Nielsen Media Research FOX NFL Sunday Post Gn-Nat (Sun 820p) 18.3 HH Rtg CBS CSI (Thu 9p) 12.0 HH Rtg NBC Sunday Night NFL Pre-Kick (Sun 810p) 11.2 HH Rtg CBS 60 Minutes (Sun 730p) 11.1 HH Rtg CW America's Next Top Model (Wed 8p) 10.7 HH Rtg CBS Shark (Thu 10p) 10.1 HH Rtg CBS Without a Trace (Sun 1030p) 9.8 HH Rtg FOX Billboard Music Awards (Mon 8p) 9.7 HH Rtg NBC Football NT America PT 3 (Sun 8p) 9.7 HH Rtg CBS CSI: Miami (Mon 10p) 9.1 HH Rtg *Source: Nielsen Media Research GAY/LESBIAN MARKET: In addition to its NASCAR-related Race Day on-demand product offerings, Clear Channel Radio's online unit will also offer subscribers the gay/lesbian community-focused Pride On Demand. Streaming in 12 markets, the programming will contain the Ryan and Caroline weekly radio show, entertainment news updates, music, and more. INTERNATIONAL MARKET: CBS Paramount's international sales division will now handle all of Showtime Network's international program distribution following the merging of Showtime's global distribution unit into the CBS division. As such, Showtime's sales personnel will be let go as of February and the unit will not exhibit at the upcoming NATPE event according to C21. The animated Jetix Europe series, Oban Star Racers, will launch on U.K. terrestrial TV network GMTV in 2007, following an agreement with Buena Vista International Television. The 26x30 series chronicles the Great Race of Oban, an intergalactic competition which takes place every 10,000 years to determine the winner of a mysterious Ultimate Prize and the balance of power within the Galaxy. Oban Star Racers is a mix of Japanese anime with western design and 3D CGI and 2D animation. It is a co-production between Jetix Europe, France's Sav! The World Production, France 3, Super RTL, Bandai Visual, and Hal Film Maker. This was the first time a Jetix Europe co-production had involved a Japanese partner. The U.K.'s BBC2 channel has picked the U.S. drama Heroes to headline its winter and spring programming lineup. Some of the other big players in the schedule include RDF's Verdict reality series, The Life and Times of Vivienne Vyle satire, and documentaries The Seven Ages of Rock and The Conspiracy Files according to Variety. Tourism Australia and Discovery Networks are partnering to bring the American Chopper series down under. Orange County Choppers' Paul Teutul Sr., Paul Jr. and Mikey will travel to Australia in February 2007 to design a Down Under-themed chopper for a special three-part installment of the series that will air on Discovery Networks internationally in 2Q2007. The two week visit to Australia is part of Tourism Australia's "Global Programs," an initiative that is part of a three-year partnership between Tourism Australia and Discovery Networks. EXECUTIVE MOVES: The rumors have been put to rest…Telemundo has named Carlos R. Bardasano as EVP/Network Entertainment, effective immediately. He will oversee Programming, On-Air Promotions, Specials, and Taller Telemundo in addition programming strategy and on-air content. Carlos was most recently Vice President of Programming Development of Univision Television Networks. He will report to Telemundo President, Don Browne. Carlos had been the rumored candidate to replace outgoing Head/Programming, Ramon Escobar, who has signed a first-look content development deal with Telemundo. Sony Pictures Television International (SPTI) upped Jack Ford to EVP and Managing Director for Australia and New Zealand. In addition to managing the company's businesses in those regions, Jack will serve on Premium Movie Partnership and TV1's boards for SPTI. He was previously Managing Director for Australia and New Zealand. Jack will continue to be based in Sydney and report to Michael Grindon, SPTI's president. Ellis Entertainment named Sonia Ormaechea as Sales Director for the Americas and Australasia. She was recently head of sales and acquisitions at Parapiti Entertainment. Lynn Valiquette will continue to serve as the company's sales director managing the European, Middle Eastern and African territories. Answer to Yesterday's Trivia Question: Wedding Wars recently aired on A&E and starred John Stamos. Stamos was once on a daytime soap in the 1980's, playing the role of a wise aleck teen. What was the name of the soap and what was his character's name? BLACKIE ON GENERAL HOSPITAL Kudos to: Melissa Friedman NY; Joe Swaney-Cartoon Network/Atlanta; Sonya Shaw-WTTG Fox 5/WDCA My20/DC; Michael Ratliffe-TV One/Silver Spring MD; Deborah Collins-NY; Maria Rodriguez–Zimmerman Advertising/Dallas; Don Tapani-FOX4/My27/Dallas; Frank Hagan-H20 Productions/Hollywood Today's Trivia Question: On this show during the 90's the three kids names were Mark, Randy and Bradley. What show was this? (click here) with your answer and be sure to include your name, company, city and time zone. Unofficial rules: Only the second four correct answers from each time zone will be mentioned; and once you've been mentioned in any of the Cynopsis editions, you can't be mentioned again that calendar week.) 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