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International 02/08/08 Good morning. It's Friday, February 8, 2008, and this is your first early morning International & Multicultural briefing. INTERNATIONAL MARKET: Sky Italia, an Italian subscription platform, inked a distribution deal with user-generated content channel Current TV. Sky Italia will create a localized version of the network (Al Gore will be there for the formal launch in Spring 2008), adding 4.24 million households to the network's reach. Local Italian submissions may possibly be used on the network's current channels in the U.S., the U.K., and Ireland. Virgin Media Television's general entertainment channel, Virgin1, showed its interest in American Inventor. The series was picked up from FremantleMedia Enterprises (FME) covering two seasons (16x60 and 8x60). Comcast International Media Group inked a number of long-term licensing deals for Latin America, totaling over 110 hours of entertainment and lifestyle-themed programming from The Style Network. FOXlife and Canal Fox Channel have licensed The Style Network's Kimora: Life in the Fab Lane, while MGM Networks Latin America has picked up Style Star, The Look For Less, Area, Katie Brown, Homes with Style, and Shabby Chic for its Casa Club TV channel. U.K.-based Entertainment Rights Plc's Rupert Bear Follow the Magic hit a rating jackpot in Germany. The 52x10 series, which started airing in early January on Super RTL, averaged a 41.4% share in its regular slot. The forecast for U.K. viewing is on the positive swing, according to a new report from audience researcher Attentional. Total TV viewing is expected to grow by 4.6% over the next 5 years with the A18-34 crowd jumping up by nearly the same amount with 5%. Even though the average daily viewing time of this age group will experience a 1% drop by 2012, the immigration levels will increase overall viewing. On the other hand, the K4-15 group is expected to drop by 4% due to decreases in average daily viewing time and a smaller kids population. NATPE "tidbits": More international networks and their 2008 programming and marketing directions Following its reorg from Miami to Buenos Aires, MTV Latin America (MTVLA) is looking to further develop formats. Striving to develop an A18-24-targeted series, the network is currently meeting with potential Latin American producers to co-produce series. The pilot will be ready in 2008 with an expected launch in 2-3Q2009. Besides "business as usual," other plans include developing 1-2 reality shows, reinvesting in news with a new structure out of Buenos Aires, and digital expansion of both MTV and VH1. Speaking of VH1 Latin America, the channel will expand its movie involvement with new blocks in the Latam market using mainly U.S. titles to target the A25+ audience. Further 2008 blocks include 3-4 Behind The Music specials, 7 Ages of Rock from BBC (2Q2008 debut), Secret Diaries, Movies That Rock weekly block, and a female-skewed block "Ladies Night." Nickelodeon is launching 5 new animations (4 are Nick originals) in Latam with Frankenstein's Cat coming in from Canada. The shows are launching in first half of 2008. The network is focusing on live action animation this year. Other new stuff includes the recently announced kids telenovela from Chile, Karku. The show has sub-story ending every 26 episodes with 2 seasons already done and another in production now. Two daypart launches (weekdays, 90 minutes) will also take place in the near future taking Nickers (with wrap arounds) beyond its current Brazil airing to Mexico and Argentina in June 2008. A pro-social campaign is also in process with UNICEF (based out of Panama) centered on the wellbeing of kids with themes changing every 1 1/2 months. Nick is looking to be more interactive over the next year, produce ,ore local Latam productions, and redesign and relaunch their site. Telemundo Internacional experienced a 35% growth rate from 2006-2007 in Europe, Asia, and Africa with over 36,000 hours of programming. It is currently and will continue to work with other producers in Spain and Argentina such as Promofilms and TVN as well as Korea's SBS, Brazil's Brand, and others. They are continuing to look to co-produce domestically and internationally with the possibility of bringing some series back to Telemundo in the U.S. An example is bringing Stairway to Heaven from Korea's SBS. They are checking out if it will be possible to expand from the original 22 episodes to 120 episodes (show is quite successful back in Asia) for airing as a full telenovela on Telemundo. Other plans … more Asian expansion and possibly a co-production and development of the digital platform content in general (VOD, IPTV, and mobile). Regent Worldwide, which specializes in made-for-TV thriller films and other genres, currently produces 5-10 films a year with 10-15 acquired. Hoping to branch out into other genres, Regent is expanding more to family and action (as opposed to some of their current films which are action/disaster or "disastertainment" as Co-President Adam Wright put it). This year includes plans to acquire live action series for English-speaking territories. It is also has 9 new shows and more to come. In addition to sales for its Hollywood's Best Film Directors, Global Telemedia is working to get the 120x1 Green Minute in U.S. syndication as well as pitching cable networks. The show was recently sold in Indonesia and Pakistan and is a co-production in Australia. New sports-related content is coming down the pipes as well as a new green series. The company has 10 new series and specials geared to launch at MIPTV, including a travel series. Pending deals to come in the near future. HISPANIC MARKET: Univision's live telecast (9-1125p) of the February 6 soccer match between the national teams of the U.S.A. and Mexico was seen in its entirety or in part by 9.6 million viewers. It averaged an audience of nearly 5.1 million total viewers, according to Nielsen's NTI Live+SD ratings. EXECUTIVE MOVES: As of March 1, Terry Mackin will join Univision Communications Inc. as President of the Television Station Group. He will oversee Univision's and TeleFutura's 64 television stations. (Did you know that Terry was named as one of Mediaweek's 2007 " Top 50 Most Indispensable Executives in Media? "). He will be based in New York and report to Ray Rodriguez, Univision Communications Inc.'s President and COO. Terry joins the company from Hearst-Argyle Television Inc., where he is EVP/Digital Media. The new Executive Director/Distribution at Sony Pictures Television International (SPTI) will be Ramon Garcia, who currently serves the company as Director/Sales, Latin America. He will continue to report to Angel Orengo, SVP/Distribution, Latin America and the Caribbean. Relocating to Mexico City, Ramon will be in charge of distribution of Sony film and TV content sales to Mexican broadcasters and programming licensing in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Central America. He will also manage digital delivery development. A CYNOPSIS MESSAGE FROM CABLEU
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