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CABLEready Crea Nueva División De Producción

August 28 La compañía creo CABLEready Productions, división que ofrecerá servicios de duplicados y conversiones y que será manejada por Eric Benitez promovido especialmente para atender la nueva área. CABLEready, compañía de representación de programación con base en Estados Unidos ha lanzado una nueva división que ofrece servicios de duplicados completos y conversiones estándar desde y hacia: Formatos HDCAM 1080 60i, HDCAM 1080 50i, Digi NTSC, Digi PAL, Beta SP NTSC, Beta SP PAL, VHS NTSC, VHS PAL, VHS NTSC, VHS PAL, DVD NTSC and DVD PAL. Eric Benitez de [...]

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Executive Moves

August 26 CABLEready elevated Eric Benitez as Director/Operations for both CABLEready and CABLEready Productions. Eric will continue to help with rights management matters, work with clients pertaining to their technical needs and supervise daily operations of both entities. He reports to Lou Occhicone, SVP/Operations.

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CABLEready Launches New Unit, CABLEready Productions

August 25 CABLEready, the international TV program distribution and development company, has launched CABLEready Productions, a new division that provides complete duplication and standard conversion services from and to: HDCAM 1080 60i, HDCAM 1080 50i, Digi NTSC, Digi PAL, Beta SP NTSC, Beta SP PAL, VHS NTSC, VHS PAL, DVD NTSC and DVD PAL formats. CABLEready‘s Eric Benitez will oversee operations of the new unit.

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Anatomy Of A Hit and Development Competition Announced

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International Market

August 12 CABLEready is now in exclusive charge of the global distribution rights to several original programs from Burrud Productions. The Women in Peril high-def programming is about real women and will be unveiled at MIPCOM. It includes WOMEN IN FEAR (1×60-minutes), WOMEN OF THE OCCULT (1×60-minutes), WOMEN ADDICTED TO SEX (1×60-minutes), WOMEN BEHIND BARS SEASON 2 (12×60-minutes) and WOMEN ON DEATH ROW (Episodes 3+4, 2×90-minutes).

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Gary Lico de CABLEready: Ofreceremos Women in Peril de Burrud Productions en Mipcom

August 12 CABLEready tendrá los derechos internacionales exclusivos de varios programas originales sobre mujeres reales compilados en la colección Women in Peril de Burrud Productions. La programación en HD será ofrecida, por primera vez, para programas de licencias internacionales en Mipcom. Gary Lico, presidente y CEO de CABLEready, aseguró: “Muy a menudo la televisión ofrece un singular punto de vista sobre las mujeres en la sociedad. Estos programas proporcionan elementos multidimensionales en la vida cotidiana de mujeres verdaderas, no actrices, quienes luchan con temas que típicamente no son revelados”. La [...]

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CABLEready Secures Rights To “Women In Peril” Collection

August 11, 2008 CABLEready, the international television program distribution and development company, has secured the exclusive international rights to several original programs about real women from Burrud Productions. Packaged under the “Women in Peril” collection banner, the HD format programming will be offered for international licensing deals for the first time during MIPCOM in October. The collection includes “Women in Fear,” “Women of the Occult,” “Women Addicted to Sex,” season two of “Women Behind Bars” and a couple of episodes of “Women on Death Row.”

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Jail Birds

June 27 A fresh take on a well-worn genre makes for a compelling series available to view in US distributor CABLEready‘s C21screenings suite, writes Emily Brookes. In a fairly well saturated genre, CABLEready president Gary Lico (left) believes he has a crime and investigation series on his slate that offers something different from the rest. Asked what elements make WOMEN BEHIND BARS a successful format, Lico deadpans: “It’s women-slash-jails.” CABLEready has been in the crime content game for about 15 years now, and its catalogue includes titles like MEDICAL DETECTIVES, [...]

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Steadfast, CABLEready in transatlantic link-up

June 26 UK indie Steadfast International, the sales arm of Steadfast TV, has entered into a reciprocal distribution arrangement with US factual house CABLEready. Under the deal, Steadfast will distribute CABLEready ‘s programming in the UK, Ireland, the Netherlands, Scandinavia and parts of Eastern Europe. In turn, CABLEready will represent Steadfast’s titles in the US and Latin America. Sally Cronin, MD of Steadfast International, said she saw the deal as “a perfect partnership in terms of focusing our efforts in Western and Eastern Europe and benefiting greatly from CABLEready ‘s [...]

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UK Network Finds Love Behind Bars

June 25 US distributor CABLEready has pre-sold its upcoming crime documentary pilot LOVE BEHIND BARS to a UK pay-TV network. Crime and Investigation UK, carried on the BSkyB platform, is likely to air the show some time in 2009, CABLEready‘s president Gary Lico told C21. LOVE BEHIND BARS, a planned series about women who fall in love with incarcerated men, is produced by Canada’s CMJ Productions, the company behind CABLEready titles such as STUNT STARS and ACCIDENT INVESTIGATOR. Lico said that Crime and Investigation pre-bought the LOVE BEHIND BARS pilot [...]

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International Market

June 24 Following DISCOP, CABLEready inked a distribution agreement with the U.K.’s Steadfast International to sub-distribute the former’s programs in the U.K., Ireland, Netherlands, Scandinavia and areas of Eastern Europe. In turn, CABLEready will distribute Steadfast’s programs in the U.S. and Latin America. Those shows include the CCTV CITIES action/reality show (8×60-minutes), observational series DOCTORS AND NURSES AT WAR (3×60-minutes) and SKY COPS (10×60-minutes) and the EARTHSHOCKS (7×60-minutes) documentaries.

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International Market

June 13 CABLEready brought in Central and Eastern European deals ahead of the DISCOP market. Makedonia TV (Greece and Macedonia) – IT COULD HAPPEN TOMORROW (22×30-minutes, 1×60-minute), BILLION DOLLAR DISASTERS: SURVIVOR STORIES (5×60-minutes), SILKAIR 185: PILOT SUICIDE (1×60-minutes/pilot) and HEAD ON AIR CRASH (1×60-minutes) TVN (Poland) – DEALFLOW (13×30-minutes) Kuchnia.tv (Poland) – A COOK’S TOUR (33×30-minutes) Nonstop Television (Scandinavia and Eastern Europe) – INSIDE THE ACTOR’S STUDIO (36×60-minutes), TIMES TALKS (13×60-minutes) and HOLLYWOOD 411 (200×30-minutes) Spektrum Television (Hungary and the Czech Republic) – EPIC CONDITIONS (15×30-minutes, high-def)

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