Good morning! It's
Tuesday, March 8, 2005,
and this is your first early morning
Multi-Cultural
briefing.
HISPANIC MARKET:
SmartVideo Technologies and OlympuSAT have
signed on a joint venture to convey Hispanic network programs to
cellphone and PDA subscribers. Twenty four channels including B
Mania TV, Cine Mexicano, Colours TV, Daystar Television, Latin TV and TBN
from OlympuSAT's Hispanic, Digital I and Faith & Families packages
will be offered to 50+ million mobile phone subscribers as of April
1.
Casting Call: Are you a Miami-based Hispanic with interesting
experiences, prose or thoughts about living in the US? Well,
Latino Media Works is creating a campaign for HBO Latino
titled Habla! that will spotlight interesting anecdotes in English
and/or Spanish. The submission deadline is March 15. For more
info, check
www.latinomediaworks.com or email
habla with your story for audition consideration.
LATAM MARKET:
TOP 10 US SERIES ON BROADCAST TV IN CHILE,
JANUARY2005
(Ranked by Rating, Indiv 4+) Channel
Program
Rating Viewers (000) CH13*
Sabado
Gigante
3.66
225.71
CH04** Sala de
Pareja
3.55
219.38
CH13
The
Simpsons
3.37
208.33
CH09*** Little
Lulu
3.28
202.94
CH07**** The Mind of the Married
Man
3.25
201.12
CH09
Mighty Morphin' Power
Rangers
3.11
192.79
CH09
Spongebob
Squarepants
2.85
176.35
CH13
C.S.I.: Crime Scene
Investigation
2.84
175.85
CH09
The Wild
Thornberrys
2.76
170.36
CH09
He-Man and the Masters of the Universe
2.76
170.88 *CH13: Universidad Catolica
**CH04: La Red
***CH09: Megavision
****CH07: Television Nacional de Chile
Average of Rating & Viewers for Total Runs in the Month
Source: Computer Applications Development, Inc. (CAD) Software &
Specialized Reporting
(
) / IBOPE
Media Information
AFRICAN AMERICAN
MARKET:
Media International Concepts, Inc., BEN Asset
Group and BEN's subsidiary Black Education Network inked a
development deal for two African American-focused pilot shows for two new
solution-oriented radio series. The first show will center on the
Congressional Black Caucus by focusing on national issues that affect and
concern the African American community in general. The other show
will look at prevalent health problems African Americans face across the
nation. More info at
www.mici.tv.
The 1948-1950 civil rights radio drama "Destination
Freedom" was donated to The Museum of Broadcast
Communications (MBC) by the creator's wife, Clarice Durham. The
late Richard Durham first began airing the series on WMAQ Radio on June
27, 1948 with an initial sponsorship from Chicago Defender and then from
the Chicago Urban League. The 91 tapes will be
digitized in order to “create online lesson plans that will introduce
Durham to a wider audience and a new generation," according to MBC's
founder/president, Bruce DuMont.
ABC's Sunday night feature movie, Their Eyes Were Watching
God, brought in a high 8.7/21 A18-49 rating for its 9-11 pm portion
(the movie ended at 11:30 pm). The film attracted 25 million
viewers and helped give the network its biggest Sunday primetime audience
in 4 years (excluding the Academy Awards and Super Bowl of course) with
the additional good ratings for Extreme Makeover: Home Edition (7.2/17
for A18-49 and 17.8 million total viewers).
The Tavis Smiley Center for Professional Media Studies will be
able to extend additional financial support to minority journalism
students with the acceptance of a $100,000 grant from Wal-Mart
Stores, Inc.. The new center opened its doors only last month
at Texas Southern University to encourage the study of mass
communications and training within the minority student
community.
ASIAN MARKET:
Nicktoons and XilamAnimation are
teaming up to produce Shuriken School (26x30) for Nickelodeon's
digital channel. The France-based production company will create
the animated series (originally from Zinkia Entertainment) about a
Japanese boy in his first year at a Ninja school. Set to debut in
2006, Shuriken School is targeted for 6-11 year old kids with a
Japanese-European anime mix.
The US and global TV, merchandising and licensing right to Taiwan's
ThunderForce cartoon have been picked up by Broadway Video
Enterprises and GoodTimes Entertainment from Distant
Horizon. The martial arts series will debut this fall on the
Cartoon Network's toonami block with the new name of Wulin
Warriors: Legend of the Seven Stars. Animation Collective will
produce the US version with 13 half-hour episodes that include martial
arts, puppetry and animation.
GAY/LESBIAN MARKET:
In a follow-up joint collaboration, Showtime
Networks and Embrace Productions are partnering again to bring
the "Midori presents Queer As Folk - Ancient Babylon
Tour" to nightclubs nationwide following their 2003 and 2004
tour. At each stop this summer, the tour will recreate the Showtime
series' on-set club with ancient Babylon-inspired decorating and RKM
performances. In addition, the TV series' actors will make
appearances during the tour's duration.
INTERNATIONAL MARKET:
Top 10 United Kingdom Box Office Estimates- February
25 March 3, 2005 Hide and Seek (20th Century
Fox)
$4.3 million opening wk
Meet the Fockers (United Intl.
Pictures)
$2.71 million 5 wk total $51.22m
Shall We Dance? (Buena Vista
Intl.)
$2.1 million 2 wk total $5.20m
Ocean's Twelve (Warner
Bros.)
$1.8 million 4 wk total $22.46m
The Life Aquatic (Buena Vista
Intl)
$1.41 million 2 wk total $1.5m
Are We There Yet? (Sony Pictures
Intl.)
$1.36 million 2 wk total $3.44m
Coach Carter (United Intl.
Pictures)
$1.34 million opening wk
Spongebob Squarepants (United Intl.
Pictures) $1.18 million 3 wk
total $9.41m
The Magic Roundabout (Pathe Distribution
Ltd) $1.14 million 3 wk total
$10.09m
Sideways (20th Century
Fox)
$871,023 5 wk total $5.48m *Source: Nielsen EDI and Variety Answer to Yesterday's Trivia
Question:On the Dick Van Dyke Show, what was
Buddy Sorrell's wife's real name? PICKLES real name was
FIONA. Kudos to: David Lerner-Mindshare/NY; John
Hodgson-Oklahoma State Univ Sch of Journalism & Bcsting/Stillwater;
Andrea Blain-Andrea Blain Public Relations/Skokie.
Today's Trivia Question:
What was the name of the program director who replaced Andy Travis at
WKRP in Cincinnati? (click
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