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Cynopsis: Kids!02/24/12 Good morning. It’s Friday, February 24, 2012, and this your first early morning briefing. In China, You On Demand, a Pay-Per-View and Video On Demand (VOD) provider, enters into a deal with Disney Media Distribution for VOD throughout the People’s Republic of China. Under the deal Disney Media Distribution will distribute Disney […]

Cynopsis: Kids!02/23/12 Good morning. It’s Thursday, February 23, 2012, and this your first early morning briefing. Spunky, 14-year-old singer and X-Factor alumnus, Rachel Crow, inks a development deal with Nickelodeon and, has been signed to a recording deal by Columbia Records/Syco. Syco is a joint venture between Simon Cowell‘s, The X Factor creator, judge, […]

Cynopsis: Kids!02/22/12 Good morning. It’s Wednesday, February 22, 2012, and this your first early morning briefing. BabyFirst Americas, a new infant/family-targeted bilingual (English/Spanish) channel, is set to launch first on Comcast beginning Sunday, April 1, 2012 as part of its Digital Basic Tier (D1) package. BabyFirst Americas (www.babyfirstamericas.com) is designed to introduce culturally […]

Cynopsis: Kids!02/21/12 Good morning. It’s Tuesday, February 21, 2012, and this your first early morning briefing. DreamWorks Animation SKG enters into a joint venture with China Media Capital (CMC), with plans to include Shanghai Media Group (SMG) and Shanghai Alliance Investment, Ltd. (SAIL), to establish China-centric family entertainment company. Oriental DreamWorks will develop and […]

Cynopsis: Kids!02/17/12 Good morning. It’s Friday, February 17, 2012, and this your first early morning briefing. BabyTV and DLA, which develops and delivers entertainment solutions for digital distribution platforms (TV, internet and mobile) across select territories, inked a deal that makes BabyTV’s content available via DLA’s VOD platform to subscribers in Latin America. Subscribers […]

Cynopsis: Kids!02/16/12 Good morning. It’s Thursday, February 16, 2012, and this your first early morning briefing. Germany’s ZDF Enterprises appoints US-based SMC Entertainment Group (SMC) to spearhead all licensing, merchandising and promotional activities for two of its popular teen series, H20 Just Add Water and Dance Academy, throughout North America for five years. SMC […]

Cynopsis: Kids!02/15/12 Good morning. It’s Wednesday, February 15, 2012, and this your first early morning briefing. Nickelodeon will premiere its new live-action comedy series, Fred: The Show on Monday, February 20, at 8p, with back-to-back 11-minute episodes. Created by and starring Lucas Cruikshank, Fred: The Show follows the character on his latest adventures at […]

Cynopsis: Kids!02/14/12 Good morning. It’s Tuesday, February 14, 2012, and this your first early morning briefing. 9 Story Entertainment and Skywriter Media ink a deal under which 9 Story acquires two kid-targeted animated series from Skywriter, Camp Lakebottom, produced for Teletoon Canada, and Vivi, which is a co-production with Brazil’s Mixer for TVO (Canada). […]

Cynopsis: Kids!02/13/12 Good morning. It’s Monday, February 13, 2012, and this your first early morning briefing. Answering a few of our questions this week is Carol Greenwald, Senior Executive Producer of Children’s Programming at WGBH.  Greenwald is co-creator and executive producer for the first eight seasons of hugely popular PBS series Arthur.  She also […]

Cynopsis: Kids!02/10/12 Good morning. It’s Friday, February 10, 2012, and this your first early morning briefing. Studio 100 enters into a strategic agreement with Planeta Junior to buy back the Maya the Bee property rights in France. Prior to this deal, Planeta Junior handled all TV and licensing rights in France, Spain, Portugal, Italy […]