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Flying Bark hires marketing manager from parent company
PEOPLE MOVES / TVAustralian animation studio Flying Bark Productions has named former Studio 100 Media exec Raphaela Faetkenheuer as marketing manager. Her move is timed with Fying Bark’s enhanced focus on marketing, licensing and merchandising of its key properties.
Operation Ouch booked for ABC Australia
TVABC TV Australia has acquired Operation Ouch from London, UK-based Serious Lunch. The series, which starts airing today on kids channel ABC3, is produced by Maverick Television for CBBC.
Jake leads band of Disney content headed for Netflix
INTERACTIVE / TVNetflix has taken its relationship with Disney one step further by picking up the US rights to a total of five Disney Junior and Disney XD shows, including Jake and the Never Land Pirates.
Ratings Watch Global – Italy
KID INSIGHT / TVThis week Eurodata TV has provided us with the ratings for the top-five program broadcasts with kids four to 14 in Italy between April 1 and April 28, 2013.
Five kids content companies among first paid YouTube channels
BROADCASTING / CONSUMER PRODUCTS / INTERACTIVE / TVHalifax-based DHX Media, The Jim Henson Company, Nat Geo Kids, Corus and BabyFirst Plus are among the first creators of paid YouTube channels.The move puts the Google-owned online platform closer to acheiving an affordable a-la-carte lineup of premium content and in a better position to compete on the SVOD front.
With Doc’s help, Disney Junior extends mobile offerings
INTERACTIVE / TVDisney is amplifying its preschool mobile offerings with a new Doc McStuffins iOS app, as well as new additions to the Disney Junior Appisode lineup.
SDI Media grows service offerings with new executive hire
TVL.A.-based post-production service provider SDI Media has named Doug Roberts as VP and GM of Access Services, following an increased demand for live and offline closed captioning and subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing, as well as audio description services.
Adam Bonnett upped to EVP role at Disney Channels Worldwide
PEOPLE MOVES / TVDisney Channel has upped development exec Adam Bonnett, who has spearheaded such shows as Hannah Montana and Shake it Up, to the newly created role of EVP of original programming at Disney Channels Worldwide.
More European partners for Poppy Cat
CONSUMER PRODUCTS / TVThree European licensees have joined Coolabi’s Poppy Cat program. Northern Leisure Group and Art You Grew Up With in the UK and Ireland, and Karto in Finland now belong to a growing list of partners for the preschool brand.
Global Disney XD channels buy Almost Naked Animals
TVToronto, Canada’s 9 Story Entertainment has sold the first season of its children’s comedy Almost Naked Animals to Disney XD in The Nordics, Central and Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa.
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