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Get FULL access to all of CableU's services from now until the end of the year, for only $350! Don't delay and sign up today! And don't forget to enter CableU's Emerging Producer Non-Fiction TV Competition The chance to make a once-in-a-lifetime pitch to leading industry executives Click here to enter now! www.CableU.tv - Know Networks Better. Pitch Smarter. Cynopsis: International 09/03/08 Good morning. It's Wednesday, September 3, 2008, and this is your first early morning International & Multicultural briefing. INTERNATIONAL MARKET: London's Talent Group plc acquired 3-year old indie producer KMB Productions. The company will fit right in with Talent's other subsidiary, Talent Television, albeit under a new name. Renamed as Talent South, the company will continue to produce factual, lifestyle and daytime programming with former ITV Series Producer, Kate Beal, remaining at the helm in Hampshire. She will report to Talent Group MD Tony Humphreys. In addition, Jonathan Glazier, Talent Television's Director/Entertainment, will hop on Talent South's board. Cox Communications and Hong Kong's STAR, a News Corporation subsidiary, are launching 3 Indian TV channels on Cox's digital cable platform in Northern Virginia. This will be STAR's first cable distribution agreement in the U.S. The general entertainment STAR India PLUS (channel 275), Hindi entertainment channel STAR ONE (channel 274) and Bollywood film network STAR India GOLD (channel 276) will be available with individual monthly subscriptions. Alfred Haber Distribution, Inc. has been tapped to exclusively rep the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards' internationally. The 120-minute event, now in its 15th year, will air live in the U.S. on TNT and TBS on January 25, 2009. Gateway Group subsidiary GTV pulled in an additional $35 million of external funding, bringing the total capital invested into its business up to this point to nearly $200 million. The African pay-TV service company also reaffirmed its commitment to Gateway Group's conditional deal to sell its telecommunications businesses to the African mobile operator Vodacom Group. National Geographic Channels International (NGCI) acquired the broadcast rights to the 60-minute King Lines from Shankly Productions' Shankly International distribution unit. NGCI will televise the high-def mountaineering documentary following Chris Sharma on its Nat Geo Adventure channel, available in more than 40 countries around the world, starting this month. As of September 9, the Portuguese-speaking community living in Switzerland will gain access to TV Globo Internacional's programming with the channel made available a la carte via cable operator Cablecom. CROSS-MARKET: This month is the first National Gospel Music Heritage Month, (designated by the House of Representatives and Senate).So, Gospel Music Channel (GMC) will celebrate this September with on-air, online and on-demand gospel music including artists such as Mahalia Jackson, Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Amy Grant, Al Green, Dixie Hummingbirds and many others on GMC documentaries, original specials and series. HISPANIC MARKET: ESPN Deportes continue its Spanish-language coverage of soccer starting September 4 with an exclusive Spanish-language presentation of MLS Primetime (Colorado Rapids vs. FC Dallas) at 8p. The network will air a total of 10 matches of round 6 and 7 of the South American World Cup Qualifiers (1 live game per round September 6-13). Live coverage of Mexican first division's regular season continues September 7 at 9p (Santos vs. Necaxa). GAY/LESBIAN MARKET: Toronto's OUTtv has announced its Fall 2008 documentary and short film programming lineup. The OUTstanding Docs strand makes its appearance every Sunday at 6p while Straight Acting, Camp Out and Gay Muslims will have their Canadian debuts. Occupied!, an original OUTtv production, will make its global premiere November 2 about the experiences of Palestinian GLBT Arab community members. The Hot Pink Shorts film festival, hosted by Vancouver's Luvia Petersen (L Word) and Rob Trinh (CBC script writer), will come on board the Sunday lineup starting October 12 at 530p. EXECUTIVE MOVES: Gospel Music Channel (GMC) named Erin Sullivan to the newly created position of VP/West Coast Ad Sales. She will head up and expand the channel's ad sales initiatives for the new LA-based West Coast office. The former ECast VP/West Coast Ad Sales will now report to GMC's Mary Jeanne Cavanagh, EVP/Ad Sales. NBC Universal's Universal Television Group (UTG) unit upped two of its Business Affairs execs. Pam Schechter and Crissy Thomas-Taylor both became VPs while Rafael Gomez-Cabrera and Rajal Lele join UTG as Directors. All will report to Beth Roberts, EVP/Cable Entertainment Business Affairs, Digital and New Business Development.
Answer to Yesterday's Trivia Question: In 1986, the sitcom The New Gidget (syndication) picked up where the original Gidget TV series left off. What type of business was Gidget running in this series? TRAVEL AGENCY (GIDGET TRAVEL) Kudos to: Eric Adler-Eric Adler Research/Clearwater, FL; Susan Nessanbaum-Goldberg-M and S Entertainment/LA; Tyffany A. Saucedo-KABC/Glendale, CA; Sheila K. Moore-KABE 39/KBTF 31/ KUVI 45/Bakersfield, CA Today's Trivia Question: Flatpoint High ("Home of the Concrete Donkeys") was the main setting on what comedy series? (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 Ariana Rawls for Cynopsis International 09.03.08 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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