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thru 2-24-08.#1 K2-11 Viewing with W1849a #2 Daytime Viewing W1849b #1 C3 Retention W1849c Kerry Hughes @ 212.603.8422, qubo.com/adsales a: Nielsen NPower. Live K2-11 share of viewing w/W18-49. Kids blocks for brdcasters. M-S6a-12m for kids nets. b: NTI Explorer and NPower. Live W18-49 (000's). M-F10a-4p for non-kids cable nets. c: Nielsen NPower. Based on W18-49 C3 index. Kids blocks brdcasters. M-S6a-12m all cable nets. Cynopsis: Kids! 04/14/08 Good morning. It's Monday, April 14, 2008, and this is your first early morning briefing. A Pixar animated short titled Presto, will be featured in front of studio's animated feature film Wall-E, when the movie opens June 27, 2008, according to Cartoon Brew. Directed by Pixar animator Doug Sweetland, Presto revolves around an old time magician and the rabbit. Boomerang celebrates Earth Day with 12-hour marathon of Captain Planet and the Planeteers on April 19, 8a-8p. The marathon will feature 27 episodes of the animated series (1990-96) that specifically focus on continuing environmental issues. Earth Day takes place each year on April 22. The Mathcounts Foundations debuts its web site, www.mathcounts.org , today as part of its ongoing 25th anniversary. The newly designed site features content for Mathletes, coaches, parents, and alumni including forums for students, teachers and coordinators, calendars (regularly updated), critical thinking skill centric problems, video highlights, a Ones To Watch area, VolunteerMatch, as well as a blog hosted by the Executive Director, Lou DiGioia. India's La Vision Animation Pvt Ltd launches the new kid6-14/parent/teacher targeted edutainment web portal, Buzziboy.com, per www.exchange4media.com. The company plans to take the portal to mobile and interactive DTH platforms, as well as various SMS-based content. The site will feature e-comics, value-based games, cartoons, Klub and e-Mart, and so on. La Vision Animation is a division of The Anil Nanda Group. HarperCollins Children's Books launches the new publishing imprint Balzer & Bray. The imprint takes its name from Co-Publishers, Alessandra Balzer and Donna Bray. The two officially join HarperCollins as of May 5, 2008 and will report to Kate Morgan Jackson, SVP and Associate Publisher, HarperCollins Children's Books. Balzer and Bray have worked together for a dozen years, with both most recently toiling for Hyperion Books for Children, where Balzer was Executive Editor, and Bray as Editorial Director. This week marks the American Library Association's 50th anniversary of National Library Week, April 13-19. Themed "Join the circle of knowledge @ your national library," the year's honorary chair is entertainer/author Julie Andrews, who is featured in a series of TV and radio Public service Announcements celebrating the week (and seen here ). Each year on the Thursday of National Library Week is Support Teen Literature Day, which is sponsored by the Young Adult Library Services Association. Teen Read Week 2008, this year themed Books with Bite @ your library, will be celebrated, October 12-18. Don't know what your plans are for next week, but TV-Turnoff Week 2008 is set for April 21-27. MARKETING/LICENSING BBC Worldwide taps Underground Toys as the North American and UK licensee for the sci-fi series Torchwood. Torchwood is a spin-off of Doctor Who, and shares the same creators. Under the pact, Underground Toys will serve as the international distributor of existing Torchwood products as well as the manufacturing of new product lines (e.g. mugs, key chains, plastic replica items, laying cards and resin busts) in the US and UK, with products slated to available beginning this summer 2008. Additionally, in the US Underground will also oversee distribution of action figures and Minimates. Underground also distributes the Doctor Who product lines in the US. Torchwood airs on BBC2 (UK) and BBC America (US). STONE SOUP Weekend Box Office Estimates for kids/tweens/teens rated G, PG or PG-13; April 11-13, 2008: Prom Night (2008) (Sony/Screen Gems) PG-13 Opening Weekend $22.7m 21 (Sony / Columbia) PG-13 $11.0m-3 wk total $62.3m Nim's Island (Fox) PG $9.0m-2 wk total $25.3m Leatherheads (Universal) PG-13 $6.2m-2 wk total $21.9m Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who! (Fox) G $6.0m-5 wk total $139.6m Superhero Movie (MGM (Weinstein)) PG-13 $3.1m-3 wk total $21.2m Drillbit Taylor (Paramount) PG-13 $2.1m-4 wk total $28.5m Tyler Perry's Meet the Browns (Lionsgate) PG-13 $1.6m-4 wk total $40.1m 10,000 B.C. (Warner Bros.) PG-13 $1.5m-6 wk total $91.8m Shutter (Fox) PG-13 $1.1m-4 wk total $24.8m Source: Box Office Mojo The ups and downs of teen spending across a range of categories is the subject of the 15th semi-annual Taking Stock With Teens, a nation-wide retail survey that tracks the buying and brand preferences of US teens published by Piper Jaffray. This most recent research finds that teen spending on fashion was down about -20% on a year-to-year basis, this reduction in teen spending prompted prompting the use of the term "discretionary recession." Findings from the report include:
EXECUTIVE MOVES Euro Disney S.C.A. appoints Philippe Gas as President, Euro Disney S.A.S., the management company of Euro Disney S.C.A. and Euro Disney Associes S.C.A., which operates Disneyland Resort Paris. Beginning officially on September 1, 2008, Gas will take over for Karl Holz, who has been named President, New Vacation Operations, Walt Disney Parks and Resorts. A 17-year Disney veteran, Gas is currently EVP/Human Resources, Diversity & Inclusion, Walt Disney Parks & Resorts worldwide. RATINGS Live + Same Day Ratings Kids Cable Network Averages (000) for Thursday, April 10, 2008, 6am-11pm, ranked by K2-11: NICKELODEON: K2-11 1167; K6-11 510; TWEENS 9-14 419 DISNEY CHANNEL: K2-11 735; K6-11 458; TWEENS 9-14 343 CARTOON NETWORK: K2-11 501; K6-11 300; TWEENS 9-14 242 TOON DISNEY: K2-11 133; K6-11 66; TWEENS 9-14 43 Source: MTVN Research from Nielsen Media Research Data Answer to Yesterday's Trivia Question: On the animated series Fairly Oddparents, what is the name of the teen singing sensation everyone loves? CHIP SKYLARK Kudos to: Alannah Di Bona/Boston; Barbara Riehl-AdweekMedia/NY; Terry Taylor-Disney/ABC Kids/NY; Karleen Scarpello-Bruno White Entertainment/Orlando; Stefanie Tier Friedman-Top Tier Licensing/Agoura Hills, CA; Randee DeMar- Palisades Media Group/LA; Rachel Capata-Kauff McClain & McGuire LLP/LA; Lee Williams-Boomstone Animation Inc./Ottawa Today's Trivia Question: is the name of the parrot who acted as mentor and advisor to Kimba the White Lion? ( 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.) Later -- Gwen Gwen Billings for Cynopsis: Kids! 04.14.08 Cynopsis Ad Sales: Jennifer Franko - 203-583-9796 / Classifieds - Trish Pihonak- 203-926-9878 / Cynopsis website - Video Resumes, Extended Classified Ads, Archives, and the Cynopsis Daily Video CableU - Know Networks Better. Pitch Smarter. Click here A CYNOPSIS MESSAGE FROM CYNOPSIS MEDIA: TOP TIER
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