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Cynopsis: MCE 08/01/06 Good Morning. It's Tuesday, August 1, 2006, and this is your first early morning Multi-Cultural briefing. HISPANIC MARKET: Sorpresa! will be one of the networks providing content for the beta version launch this week of AOL's refurbished and expanded video portal, AOL Video. At AOL Video, users will be able to create their own video content and share it, in addition to downloading paid programming content from a range of cable networks. AOL Video will feature 45 new VOD content channels, free streaming content as well as paid and ad-supported content that can be downloaded for viewing on different devices from a range of cable channels, in addition to 20+ AOL programmed channels. AOL Video also features a video search tool that uses technology from Truveo and Slingfish, and a video player that will take the picture full screen while maintaining picture quality. In addition to Sorpresa!, programming content for the new channels will come from MTV Networks, A&E Television Networks, Comedy Time, Endemol USA, Expo TV, LIME, National Lampoon, Procter & Gamble Productions, Inc., South Coast Golf, TBS, TNT, TotalVid, TV Guide, Warner Bros. Entertainment, Wild America and the WNBA. Si TV will be one of the first networks to be launched by Time Warner Cable when it assumes operational control of Adelphia and Comcast systems in Southern California today. LATAM MARKET: TOP 10 US SERIES ON BROADCAST TV IN MEXICO, JUNE 2006 (Ranked by Rating, Indiv 4+) Channel Program Rating Viewers (000) CH05* Spongebob Squarepants 3.11 1424.54 CH05 Sabrina the Teenage Witch 3 1388.1 CH05 Malcolm in the Middle 2.92 1340.69 CH05 Codename: Kids Next Door 2.89 1326.25 CH05 Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius 2.74 1266.31 CH05 The Porky Pig Show 2.74 1258.42 CH05 The Fairly Oddparents 2.71 1245.13 CH05 Superman: The Animated Series 2.65 1212.93 CH09** Laura en America 2.6 1190.52 CH05 Digimon: Digital Monsters 2.59 1188.22 * CH02: XEW TV 2 (Televisa) **CH09: XEQ TV 9 (Galavision) Average of Rating & Viewers for Total Runs in the Month Does not include locally-produced US formats *Source: Computer Applications Development, Inc. (CAD) Software & Specialized Reporting ( / www.cadusa.com) / IBOPE Media Information AFRICAN AMERICAN MARKET: TV One is launching its free VOD service on Time Warner Cable and Cox Communications VOD-enabled systems as of today. The network's on-demand programming will be available on all of Time Warner Cable systems. Cox will be launching the programming on cable systems in San Diego, Las Vegas, Omaha, Oklahoma City, Northern Virginia, Roanoke and Cleveland. The offering will include a minimum of five hours a month of short and long-form programming. This will include full episodes from its original series Living It Up with Patti LaBelle, Turn Up the Heat with G. Garvin and others. Short segments include celeb interviews, current social, cultural and political topic discussions with Rev. Al Sharpton, gardening and cooking segments and gospel performances from The Gospel of Music with Jeff Majors. ASIAN/INDIAN MARKET: KyLinTV has added Macroview Television (Mac TV), a channel about Taiwan targeting Chinese living overseas, to its Chinese entertainment selection. The 2-year old channel focuses on entertainment, fashion, food, travel and Taiwanese culture content in four regional Chinese languages and English. Some of the shows include Variety Show Big Brother, Variety Sum-Up, The Voice of Taiwan, Happy Formula and others. GAY/LESBIAN MARKET: here! signed a new carriage agreements with Alameda Power and Telecom (Almeda, CA), Bend Broadband (Central Oregon), Guadalupe Valley Communication Systems LP (Texas), Click! Networks (Tacoma, WA) and Canby Telephone Association (Canby, Oregon). CROSS-MARKET: Are you ready for the backstage insanity of the 2006 MTV Video Music Awards (VMA)? MTV will air the event itself on August 31 at 8p while its broadband channel, Overdrive, will air VMA Live: Backstage Uncensored and a slew of other VMA-related content at VMA.MTV.com. MTV Mobile will offer updates and recaps of the VMAs within minutes. MyVMAs, a customized experience, will enable viewers to interact with the event itself and through their opinions. Other MTV networks such as MTV2, MHD: Music High Definition and MTV World's MTV Desi, MTV K, MTV Chi will include a live simulcast while mtvU will feature videos of nominees, performers and presenters who were once regulars on the college channel. INTERNATIONAL MARKET: Collegia Capital sold over 90 eps of The Weather Channel's Storm Stories series to Zonemedia for its Zone Reality channels. The company picked up the cable, satellite, DTT, IP, VOD and mobile licensing rights for Africa, Asia Pacific (excluding Australia), Europe, Ireland, the Middle East and the U.K. Looks like Little Britain will make its way to the not-so-little U.S. with talks reportedly in progress between HBO and Simon Fuller to adapt the British sketch comedy. Although the meeting between the two parties has been confirmed, no other details have emerged as of yet according to Variety. U.K.-based production house, Electric Sky, will be teaming up with VOOM HD Networks to produce two HD series. The 6-part Art of the Heist, scheduled to air on Gallery HD, takes a look at infamous art heists from around the globe. Fashion Avenue's season three will debut on Ultra HD in 1Q2007. Hostess and supermodel Jodie Kidd shows her shopping around the world in this series on VOOM HD Networks' fashion/beauty/style channel. FremantleMedia won its Peruvian court battle with Panamericana Television. The copyright ruling states that the Peru-based company did copy the American Idol format with its Superstar show per Variety. Panamericana Television will have to cough up an unannounced fine amount which also includes FremantleMedia's legal expenses. The Indian Information and Broadcasting Ministry gave MTV India a slap on the wrist for airing a video they deemed adult material. The guilty music video was taken from an Indian movie (Aashiq Banaya Aapne / You Made Me a Lover) that was certified as "Adult" by the Central Board of Film Certification. The punishment? The network had to broadcast a scrolling message this past weekend that stated its rule violation and the reason behind it (sounds a bit like the repetitive blackboard writing punishments we received in our childhood?). MTV India decided in the end to also take the music video off heavy rotation according to The Hollywood Reporter. Top 10 United Kingdom Box Office Estimates July 21-27, 2006 Pirates of the Caribbean 2 (Buena Vista Intl) $12.63 million 3 wk total $68.15m The Break Up (United Intl Pictures) $7.53 million opening wk Superman Returns (Warner Bros.) $7.28 million 2 wk total $19.79m Stormbreaker (Entertainment) $4.37 million opening wk Garfield (20th Century Fox) $2.8 million opening wk Over the Hedge (United Intl Pictures) $2.35 million 4 wk total $19.56m The Wind that Shakes the…(Pathe Distribution Ltd) $560,792 5 wk total $4.91m Just My Luck (20th Century Fox) $201,973 4 wk total $3.72m Little Fish (Tartan Films) $156,507 opening wk The Da Vinci Code (Sony Pictures Intl.) $134,575 10 wk total $56.31m *Source: Nielsen EDI and Variety And a quick housekeeping note -- Cynopsis will be on vacation (no editions) during the week of August 7th, but no worries - we'll be back in full force on August 14th. Answer to Yesterday's trivia question: What TV show focused around the magazine The Gate? SUDDENLY SUSAN Kudos to: Ellen Falb-Newmark-Telemundo Network/NY; Matthew Willence-ITN Networks/NY; Markie Wilson-Black Family Channel/Atlanta; Ed Goode-Connelly Partners/Boston MA; Don Tapani-FOX TV/Dallas Today's Trivia Question: What does Lt. Anita Van Buren's husband do for work?( click 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.) Saludos - Ariana Ariana Rawls for Cynthia Turner's Cynopsis: MCE 08.01.06 Ad Sales: Note - new email addresses! Cynopsis MCE: Victoria Hoffman 203-556-6476 / Cynopsis & Cynopsis Kids: Mark Bohn - 203-583-1224 / Classifieds : Trish Pihonak - 203.926-9878 / Features available at the Cynopsis website : www.cynopsis.com Cynopsis Daily Video Podcast and all Cynopsis editions' audio podcasts streaming (download optional) Classified Ads Subscribe new address or change email address Unsubscribe Media Kits for all editions Archive Cynopsis Contact info All outgoing e-mails are scanned and sent out virus free. Copyright Cynopsis 2006 Cyn opsis : MCE CLASSIFIEDS For more classifieds, visit the Cynopsis.com classifieds page here JOB OPENING: MANAGER /Fox Broadcasting/LA: Lead the analytical functions of the audience res. dept. 5-7yrs tv res. exp. & BA Deg req'd.Advanced nat'l TV analysis and written/verbal skills. www.foxcareers.com (8/15) JOB OPENING: RESEARCH ANALYST/National Geographic Channel/Washington, DC: 1+ yrs cable/broadcast rsch exp pref'd. Exc presentation & writing skills. 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They are posted for free, and students work for school credit only. For more information on the specs for posting an Internship ad, email Trish at SUMMER INTERNSHIP CREDITS ONLY: OFFICE INTERNS/Sam Brick Ent & The Learning Channel/Hollywood CA: Educational pilot. Looking for energetic students eager to learn about TV and/or film prod. Cover and resumes to: (8/3) E-mail Trish Pihonak for rates and specs for Job Openings. |
