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CableU now features information on over 140 cable networks. Here are our latest additions: Animania HD - BET J - CNN Headline News - Current TV - EquatorHD - Family RoomHD - FilmFestHD - Gallery HD - GamePlayHD - Kung FuHD - Lifetime Movie Channel - MonstersHD - RaveHD - RushHD - Toon Disney - TreasureHD - UltraHD - Universal HD - V-Me - Veria TV - World CinemaHD - World SportHD Get to know cable networks better and grow your business with CableU . What are U waiting for? www.CableU.tv - Know Networks Better. Pitch Smarter. Cynopsis: International 11/26/07 Good morning. It's Monday, November 26, 2007, and this is your first early morning International & Multicultural briefing. INTERNATIONAL MARKET: U.S.-based MarCap has upped its stakes in sports rights companies EM.Sport Media and Highlight Communications to over 5% and 9%, respectively. Leo Kirch holds considerable stakes in both firms and will reportedly help him refinance the recent $4.4 billion marketing agreement he inked for the Bundesliga German soccer league. BBC Worldwide is putting money into a new British indie company, Cliffhanger Productions. The BBC unit acquired a 25% stake in the U.K. drama series-focused production house founded by former Thames Television and Endemol man Paul Marquess. As part of the deal, BBC Worldwide will have exclusive first-look distribution rights. RTL Group signed an agreement with Luxembourg-based Continental Finance Group S.A. (CFG) to create up a joint venture for the production, operation and distribution of thematic, non-terrestrial TV channels in Russia and in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). RTL Group will purchase 50% of the shares of Content Union S.A., in which CFG already contributed its four own produced Russian thematic channels, Russkiy Illusion (Russian movies), Illusion Plus (international classic movies), Detskiy (kids channel), and Zoo Park (animal channel). These channels are also distributed on cable networks in the Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Moldova, and Georgia. The joint venture will also be a distribution agent for third-party channels. The History Channel UK and Top Up TV signed an agreement to launch The History Channel and Crime & Investigation Network. Both will be available to subscribers of Top Up TV Anytime service in the U.K. 3DD Entertainment inked a deal with International Media for the international rights (excluding North America) for two shows. The 60- and 90-minute Twelve Girls Band - Live in Shanghai was broadcast on PBS this year while the 50-minute Shangri-La will air on the U.S. channel in 2008. 3DD also secured the world rights (excluding North America) to concerts featuring Mariah Carey and Rihanna shot in high-def. Disney is reportedly on the verge of signing another option deal in the U.K. on top of the two they signed for last week, Coolabi's The Shaila Show (working title) and Blue-Zoo's Clever Clogs. Disney also mentioned being on the lookout for long-form animation with ambitions for its Global Original Programming Division leaning towards two shows produced annually until 2009. Globo TV International's Amazonia drama has been sold to Portugal's SIC, Romania's Acasa TV, and Venezuela's Televen as forty-five 60-minute episodes. The show is also sold as a three-part 90-minute miniseries, according to TBI vision. Dori Media Group has boosted its stake in Darset Productions by picking up a 75% share in Paran Productions. Before this $1.6 million deal, the two companies shared Darset ownership with Dori Media's stake now growing to 87.5%. Darset's assets include 1000 telenovela-genre programming hours and another 300 hours to be produced next year. Are you a trekkie? Well, good news is on the way in the U.K. Virgin Media signed a deal with CBS Paramount International Television to bring hundreds of Star Trek on-demand programming to subscribers of Virgin Media's digital TV service. It will be available to XL subscribers via the TV Choice On-Demand section of the EPG. Parthenon Entertainment sold the kids BBC drama series Roman Mysteries to ARD for airing on weekend mornings and on ARD/ZDF's KI.KA on Saturday afternoon starting in 2008. In addition to picking up the ten-episode first season of the high-def 30-minute show, the German public broadcaster took an option to acquire the second run. BSkyB has picked Disney Channel as the first third-party channel on its proposed terrestrial PPV channel, Picnic TV (still awaiting for Ofcom approval). The new kids channel will be offered 6a-6p daily with Disney Channel and Playhouse Disney content. Other programming will be pulled in from Sky One, Sky Sports 1, and Sky Movies. India-based Tinsel Cinema, LLC launched TinselVision ( www.tinselvision.com ), a Bollywood IPTV service for South Asians living in the U.S., the U.K, Canada, and other countries. Feature films and soaps from TV networks such as Zee, Star and Zoom can be purchased a la carte for $1.99 each or on a subscriptions basis for prices starting at $9.99 a month. In a new report, The Evolving Broadcast Value Chain, 2006 2012, Datamonitor predicts that broadcasters' spending in North America and western Europe on technology will reach an estimated $8.7 billion by 2012 as equipment is upgraded to handle workflows and high-def content. Each year through 2012, the broadcast value chain market will reportedly grow at a compound annual growth rate of 6.4%. More info at www.datamonitor.com . LATAM MARKET: Nielsen EDI and Variety's Top 10 Mexican Box Office Estimates for November 16-22, 2007 will be updated as soon as they are available. EXECUTIVE MOVES: NBC Universal's Global Networks Asia named Karen Johnston as Programming Director, effective immediately. In this newly created position, she will manage programming requirements and functions of new channels launching across Asia and strategic partnerships and alliances in the region. Karen was recently VP/Programming at Star World. Based in Singapore, she will report to Raymund Miranda, Global Networks Asia's MD. Answer to Yesterday's Trivia Question: In what late 70's comedy film could you find a character deemed "the pop bottle bomber"? CAR WASH Kudos to: Eric Adler-Eric Adler Research/Clearwater, FL; Dennis Nance-Turner Broadcasting, Inc./Atlanta; Joe Ralph(J.R.)Martinez-J.J. Robb Real Estate Services/TX Today's Trivia Question: "When it comes to emotions, even great heroes can be idiots." and "I would rather be a ghost, drifting by your side...as a condemned soul...than enter heaven without you. Because of your love...I will never be a lonely spirit." These lines are from what action-packed film? ( 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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(11/30) JOB OPENING: SALES PLANNER/Gorilla Nation Media/NYC: - Support sales team in managing proposals & campaign management. 1-2 yrs online sales & planning experience; Microsoft office exp. Apply at (11/30) JOB OPENING: VP CREATIVE DIR/Fuse TV/NY: Responsible for the overall dir, conception, creation, dvlpmnt & implementation of all On-Air promotions and packaging for all marketing platforms. Please send resume to . (11/30) JOB OPENING: WRITER/PRODUCER/Discovery Communications/LA: Conceive, write & produce TV & Radio campaigns for TLC On-Air promotions & mktg. Please apply online at www.discovery.com/corporate to job opening number 5931. EOE M/F/V/D (11/30) JOB OPENING: NETWORK CABLE BUSINESS ANALYST/NY: Exp. With VCI software required. Background in Traffic & Ad Sales. Strong documentation & training skills needed. (11/30) JOB OPENING: COORDINATOR, CUSTOM RESEARCH/NHL: 3+ yrs exp in ad sales rsrch. Extensive exp with custom research (e.g. Simmons/Scarborough/MRI) req'd. Strong knwldg of Excel and Power Point a must. Apply: (11/29) JOB OPENING: WDCW Washington DC seeks BROADCAST SALES VETERAN with 4+ years of exp. Aggressive seller with successful agency and direct business exp. Stellar presentation and negotiating skills required. EOE (11/28) JOB OPENING: Rainbow/NYC: PROD MGR, ONAIR PROMOS for VOD cable nets; create & oversee budgets & project mngmt for post-prod/shoots/gfx. 3+ yrs ent/media exp. Strong detail/org/comm skills. www.cablevision.jobs.com req 4856BR. (11/28) JOB OPENING: Rainbow/NYC: ASSOC. PROD, ONAIR PROMOS for VOD cable nets; write/produce/edit promos on FCP. Writing test req. Oversee digital file mgmt. Apply to req 4780BR at www.cablevision.jobs.com (11/28) JOB OPENING: VP CONSUMER/AFFILIATE MKTG/Fuse TV/NYC: Establishes strategic mktg, promos & ad campaigns for Fuse, drive awareness & promote brand attributes to the trade, press & consumer. 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