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  • E! Networks signs deal with Zee Telefilms in Cannes

    CANNES: Zee Telefilms has signed a deal to purchase 270 hours of content from the US broadcaster E! Networks at Mipcom. The shows include E! News, It’s So Over, 50 Celebrity Break-Ups, Glamour’s 50 Biggest Do’s and Don’ts and Style Star.

    E!News already airs on Zee Cafe at 11 pm from Monday-Friday, a day after being screened in the US. It repeats at 5:30 pm the next day. This gives viewers news about celebrities and the latest happenings in Hollywod. It aims at bringing stars closer to the viewers everyday. In Style Star, viewers can see how the most fashionable celebs turn heads on and off the red carpet.

    E! Networks has also signed a deal with Jupiter Entertainment in Japan. Jupiter has picked up 46 hours of red carpet event programming to air on its Movie Plus Channel, including coverage of the 2006 Academy Awards, The E! True Hollywood Story, Behind the Scenes and Extreme Close-up.

  • Infront Sports signs deal with German mobile content provider for football world cup

    MUMBAI: Sports marketing firm Infront Sports & Media has signed a non-exclusive broadcast agreement with German mobile operator O2 for all 64 matches of 2006 football World Cup.

    The license also includes access to all archive video material of the 2002 Fifa World Cup. The broadcast rights granted are in the category of mobile telephony that will give O2 the right to offer up to four minutes of video footage per match for “near-live” and post-match highlight coverage on mobile phones to its subscriber base.

    O2 is the first mobile operator to acquire the mobile telephony broadcast rights of the 2006 World Cup in Germany. In India, the event will air on ESPN Star Sports.

    Infront executive director Oliver Seibert said, “This is a key deal for Infront and O2. We are convinced that our broadcast partner O2 Germany will offer a state-of-the-art mobile video service of the 2006 Fifa World Cup to German soccer fans. It will be very interesting to see what impact it makes on the development of the mobile entertainment industry.”

  • China signs deal with Motion Picture Association for copyright protection

    MUMBAI: This is an important step towards the checking of movie piracy in China. Chinese film authorities and the Motion Picture Association (MPA) have signed a memorandum of understanding on the crackdown on pirated US home video products for the protection of copyrights of Hollywood movies.

    The MPA says that the move is an important step in the fight against the rampant piracy in China that costs Hollywood hundreds of millions of dollars in lost revenues. The deal was signed between the MPA and China’s Ministry of Culture and the State Administration for Radio, Film and Television (SARFT)

    The MPA will send Chinese regulators a list of movies scheduled for release in the country every three months. The agreement provides for stricter policing of counterfeit films and stricter prosecution, the film association said in a statement.

    Meanwhile, media reports indicate that pirated DVDs are often available in China before their theatrical release and sometimes cost as little as one dollar. Earlier Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) president and CEO Dan Glickman was quoted in a company release saying that agreements reached during US-China trade talks represented steps in the right direction. He expressed hope that they would yield better enforcement of intellectual property rights in China.

    “The agreements reflect modest progress in our ongoing efforts to improve enforcement of intellectual property rights in China. I hope China is vigorous in its implementation. That will be a greater measure of success” he said.

    The MPAA states that currently 95 per cent of DVDs sold in China are pirated. Also of concern is the limitation China places on access to American movies in theaters. China’s quasi-monopoly on film distribution, on top of an annual quota of 20 major films, results in very limited and unpredictable access to the Chinese market for American filmed entertainment.

    Glickman says, “It is impossible to fight piracy effectively when there are so many barriers to legal product entering the market. We have a long way to go in both these areas, but these are steps in the right direction and we welcome them.”

  • WWE signs deal with Fox8 for Raw content

    LOS ANGELES: Australian channel Fox8 and World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) have announced the addition of WWE’s sports entertainment franchise Raw to the channel’s programme line-up.
    In India viewers can catch WWE action on Ten Sports. Raw will premiere on Fox8 on 3 October. An official release informs that this will precede WWE Smackdown! which airs on the channel on Saturday evenings. In India the shows air on Monday and Tuesday on Ten Sports at 5 pm.
    Fox8 claims to be Australia’s leading subscription television entertainment channel. Fox8 is available on the Foxtel, Austar and Ooptus television platforms.
    Meanwhile in Australia pay per view (PPV) Raw events will continue to be screened on the Main Event channel. This will consolidate the channel’s existing PPV wrestling calendar which includes WrestleMania XX and Summerslam the release states.