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  • Hotstar & CBS agree to bring Showtime content & brand to India

    MUMBAI: Hotstar, India’s largest premium streaming platform, and CBS Corporation today announced an SVOD content licensing and trademark agreement for SHOWTIME in India. The agreement will introduce the SHOWTIME brand to India for the first time and bring a roster of Emmy® and Golden Globe® winning programming from SHOWTIME to the territory.

    The agreement will provide Hotstar Premium subscribers in India access to future SHOWTIME series such as the new comedy SMILF, the new limited series, ESCAPE AT DANNEMORA, starring Oscar® winners Benicio Del Toro and Patricia Arquette and Golden Globe nominee Paul Dano, and the new TWIN PEAKS. Also available to Hotstar Premium subscribers are hundreds of hours of critically-acclaimed series including THE AFFAIR, BILLIONS, RAY DONOVAN and the recently premiered, I’M DYING UP HERE.

    Hotstar CEO Ajit Mohan said, “Over the last year, we have established Hotstar Premium as the most exciting destination for American TV shows and movies in India on demand. We have been continuously raising the bar on what is already the best streaming service for an Indian audience interested in international stories. The deal with CBS is in line with our strategy of bringing the best of new shows and movies from around the world to our Premium subscribers. Today, SHOWTIME joins an exciting slate on Hotstar. It is clear that there is no equivalent service like this in India, or, frankly, anywhere in the world. We are clear that we are building Hotstar Premium as the most compelling subscription service that will showcase the best story tellers from around the world.”

    “We are thrilled to be partnering with Hotstar to bring critically-acclaimed programming from SHOWTIME to Indian audiences,” said CBS Studios International president and CEO Armando Nuñez. “Thanks to this agreement and other partnerships with top platforms around the world, the footprint of the SHOWTIME brand and programming continues to expand in the global marketplace.”

    For CBS Corporation, similar agreements for SHOWTIME have been announced with FOX Networks Group in Asia, Canal+ Group in France, along with Sky UK, Germany and Italy, Bell Canada, Stan Australia, Movistar Spain and other output partners around the world.

    Setting its sights on shaping the connected TV experience in India, Hotstar appropriated the top spot on iTunes as Apple TV’s App of the Year for India in 2016. The recognition came on the back of a breakthrough year in which Hotstar continued to lead and disrupt the Indian market place. The service has more than 250 million downloads to date, and was the first local service to cross 100 million downloads on the Google Play Store. Globally, only one other video streaming app has hit the same milestone.

    Hotstar Premium now becomes the one of the few services in the world with exclusive content partnerships with the best global studios like Disney, Fox, HBO, and, now, SHOWTIME.

  • CBS executives David Stapf and Armando Nunez to deliver joint keynote at Mipcom 2014

    CBS executives David Stapf and Armando Nunez to deliver joint keynote at Mipcom 2014

    MUMBAI: MIPCOM announces today that David Stapf, President of CBS Television Studios, and Armando Nu?ez, President and CEO of CBS Global Distribution Group, will deliver a joint keynote address as part of MIPCOM’s Media Mastermind Keynote Series.

    Organised by Reed MIDEM, the 30th anniversary edition of MIPCOM will take place in Cannes, France, from 13-16 October 2014.

    The CBS Studios Global Content Keynote from Nu?ez and Stapf is scheduled for Tuesday 14 October. With more than five decades of television production and international TV distribution experience between them, the CBS executives will discuss this year’s overall theme, The Global Quest for Original Content . The duo will tackle topics including the rise of event series programming, new relationships with digital distribution partners, CBS’s year-round programming strategy and the global appetite for CBS and Showtime content.

    CBS Television Studios is one of the leading suppliers of primetime network programming, with top scripted dramas such as “NCIS” and “NCIS: Los Angeles” and comedy series “The Millers.” The studio’s roster of popular and critically-acclaimed programmes also includes the phenomenally successful CSI franchise, summer event series “Under the Dome,” “Elementary,” starring Jonny Lee Miller and Lucy Liu, and the Peabody Award winning series “The Good Wife,” starring multiple award winner Julianna Margulies.

    David Stapf was named President, CBS Television Studios in September 2004. He is responsible for overseeing all of the Studio’s programme development and production, basic cable and premium channel markets.

    Armando Nu?ez was named President and CEO of the CBS Global Distribution Group in October 2012. Nunez is responsible for overseeing all of CBS Corporation’s international and domestic distribution operations, including CBS Studios International, which licenses CBS programming worldwide to more than 200 markets across multiple media platforms. Nu?ez has been with the company since 1999.

    Stapf and Nunez report directly to Leslie Moonves, President and CEO of CBS Corporation.

  • Banff Outstanding Achievement Award goes to CBS

    Banff Outstanding Achievement Award goes to CBS

    MUMBAI: CBS Television will be the recipient of the 2006 Outstanding Achievement Award at the Banff World Television Festival. CBS Paramount International Television president Armando Nuñez, Jr., will be accepting the award on the company’s behalf.

    The Banff World Television Festival takes place 11 to 14 June at the Fairmont Banff Springs in Banff, Alberta.

    According to a Banff press release, CBS is being honoured for “its groundbreaking programming, consistently solid ratings and overall contribution to the television industry.”

    Nuñez said, “I am pleased to accept the award on behalf of Leslie Moonves and the entire team at CBS. This honour reinforces the high regard to which the international community holds for CBS’s legacy of high quality and successful programming.”