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  • Anime Network set to launch as 24-hour channel

    Anime Network set to launch as 24-hour channel

    MUMBAI: North America’s leading video-on-demand (VOD) provider Anime Network will soon go on air as a 24-hour, 7-day-a-week network. The company has signed an agreement on this regard with Insight Communications, the ninth largest cable operator in the United States.

    The Insight agreement represents Anime Network’s first 24/7 agreement with a major multisystem cable operator (MSO). Insight expects to roll out the Anime Network on its Digital tier in several markets, informs an official release.

    As one of the most successful VoD offerings available to cable and satellite subscribers, Anime Network holds the distinction of being the only independent network ever launched from a VoD programming service. Now this new step will see Anime Network’s move to a new level by giving fans non-stop anime action of feature films and television series such as Noir, Spriggan, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040, Tekken, Golden Boy, Ninja Resurrection, Samurai X: The Motion Picture, Comic Party, Gravion, Kaleidostar, Orphen, Final Fantasy, Chobits, BoogiePop Phantom, Peacemaker and Chrono Crusade, adds the release.

    “We believe Anime Network’s linear network will enhance and add value to our digital line-up by providing a destination for our customers who are a part of the growing number of fans of the Anime genre,” says Terry Denson, vice president of programming at Insight.

    Says Corcoran of the Anime Network, “With this agreement, we have achieved a major milestone on behalf of Anime Network, and are proud of our standing as the only independent ever launched from a VoD start.”

    Corcoran further adds that they are taking up this challenge to prove to other MSO’s that the Anime Network is a viable and valuable network and one they should offer their subscribers.

  • ADV Films’ licensing opportunities at MIPCOM 2002

    ADV Films’ licensing opportunities at MIPCOM 2002

    HOUSTON (Texas): ADV Films, a leading distributor of anime and genre live action programming in the English-speaking world has announced a partial list of the global licensing opportunities the firm will have available at MIPCOM 2002. The annual international licensing fair is to be held in Cannes, France from 7 to 11 October .

    Aimed primarily at the international television market, MIPCOM features representatives of the TV broadcasting, TV production & distribution industries, DVD and video producers and distributors, Internet and new media companies, advertising firms, licensing and merchandising firms and myriad collateral service providers. ADV Films has several titles available to be licensed for broadcast and distribution in markets across the globe. Apart from television and home video rights, ADV Films also offers merchandising, game and other rights for licensing.

    The company is offering titles in numerous genres and formats, with availability in Europe, Africa, Australasia, Central and South America and more. The company says MIPCOM is the ideal one-stop setting for meeting potential licensees and for discussing opportunities each of its properties has to offer.

    Television, home video, merchandising and game rights available for these and other ADV titles include Lady Death The Movie, Kaleido Star, Noir.

    Today, ADV claims to be the number one distributor of Japanese animation to the North American market, with the firm’s holdings including such premier titles as priggan, Sailor Moon, Samurai X.. ADV has also expanded into other forms of genre programming, including live-action science fiction programmes like Gene Roddenberry’s Andromeda and Farscape.