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.Do U know how they're doing? CableU 's June 2008 Xpress Report tells all: year-ago and month-ago demographic changes, performance trends, programming hits and misses, and timely insights on the Cable U Top 30 networks. For a limited time, Cable U 's exclusive monthly wrap-up is FREE to everyone! (one week only) Click here for more. www.CableU.tv - Know Networks Better. Pitch Smarter. Cynopsis: International 07/28/08 Good morning. It's Monday, July 28, 2008, and this is your first early morning International & Multicultural briefing. INTERNATIONAL MARKET: MGM Networks has a new initiative in the works to grow its The MGM Channel's TV distribution to mobile subscribers, with the first move being a deal with Vodafone in Germany. This follows a soft launch in June. Xilam Animation in France has more business in the Eastern European market following up on June's Discop. Oggy And The Cockroaches goes to Lithuania's LNK in (seasons 1-3) and Russia's VGTRK (seasons 2-3) while the home video rights went CD Land for Russia (seasons 1-3) and North Video for the Czech Republic and Slovenia (season 1). Poland's Kartunz and Romania's Millennium Trading inked for Shuriken School's (Jetix) home video rights. In addition, Disney's channels in Poland and Serbia bought It's a Kind of Magic. Six movies from Sundance Channel's upcoming Asia Extreme season will become available on Sundance Channel On Demand as of August 1, one month before the new season's linear channel debut. Old Boy, Re-cycle, The President's Last Bang, The Red Shoes, will be available in high-def as well as standard-def and The Maid and The Ghost of Mae-Nek will be available in standard-def. MTV South Europe is looking to reach out to young folks not only in their homes but also in their hostels as they travel with plans to develop a branded hostel network, according to Advanced Television. The network is reportedly looking around for partners. Digital Rights Group's companies were quite busy pulling in post-DISCOP deals ...
SingTel signed an agreement with three major studios, Disney-ABC International Television, Twentieth Century Fox and Warner Bros. International Television Distribution, for its mio TV service to air more than 50 U.S. series as soon as 24 hours after the shows' U.S. premiere. The SingTel service, Season Pass, has a September launch planned. HISPANIC MARKET: ION Media Networks, Inc.'s bilingual qubo kiddie TV and online entertainment service has picked up carriage in Boston with RCN Corporation. AFRICAN AMERICAN MARKET: BET decided Kevin Hart has enough of the funnies to host Comic View. In addition, the network also produced a pilot for a reality show (I Ain't Scared) with the comedian. That's not all for Kevin as he also is becoming part of the cast of Comedy Central's new Krod Mandoon and the Flaming Sword of Fire show. The newly revamped The Comic View is being renamed as Comic View: One Mic Stand, per Variety. GAY/LESBIAN MARKET: here! will spring the second, 9-episode run of its The Lair supernatural series on September 5. EXECUTIVE MOVES: Corus Entertainment Inc. has a few senior management changes in the works. As of September 2, 2008, John Cassaday will add on additional responsibilities to his current position as President and CEO by taking on operations for Corus Radio on an interim basis. The change follows on the heels of the recent announcement about John Hayes' stepping down as Corus Radio' President as of August 31. Mario Cecchini, Chris Pandoff, Doug Rutherford and Bryan Ellis will become VP for Quebec, Ontario, the West and Planning, respectively, with all reporting to John. Doug will continue to oversee Edmonton Radio with all cluster GMs across Canada reporting to the appropriate Regional VP. Effective August 5, Scott Dyer will be Corus Entertainment's CTO, also reporting to John. He will oversee both the company's divisional and corporate technology. On the same date, Doug Murphy will also come in as President/Nelvana and EVP and GM/Corus Kids, reporting to Paul Robertson, Corus Television's President. Doug will be in charge of kids internationally, including YTV, Treehouse, Discovery Kids, Nelvana, KidsCo, qubo and Kids Can Press. Two new names were named at London's Cineflix International Ltd. Rights Manager Claire Lowe comes to the company from her prior position at National Geographic Television International as Business Affairs Manager. She will collaborate with the sales and legal teams as well as the Dublin office on rights agreements and strategies. In addition, Cineflix International named Lucinda Garner as Sales Manager/U.S. and English-speaking Canada. Based in Toronto, she will manage completed program sales across all media for those territories. She was previously with the BBC for 12 years. News of the last week ... While Cynopsis International was on vacation last week (Ariana's excellent New England adventure), several top international/multicultural TV industry news stories were announced. Here are some of the snippets from the week ...
Today's Trivia Question: On the series Walker, Texas Ranger, which pro team did Walker's partner Trivette play for before becoming a Ranger? (Email 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 -- Ariana 07.28.08 Cynopsis International Ad Sales: Jason Cesare - 732-718-0629 / Classifieds - Trish Pihonak- 203-926-9878 / Cynopsis website - Video Resumes, Extended Classified Ads, Archives, and the Cynopsis Daily Video To subscribe to any Cynopsis edition(s) click here . To unsubscribe , click here or click the button at the end of this email. CableU - Know Networks Better. Pitch Smarter. Click here A CYNOPSIS MESSAGE FROM CYNOPSIS MEDIA: TOP TIER
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