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LOS ANGELES/NEW YORK, October 19: CBS Corporation, NBC Universal, Viacom, Fox Entertainment Group and The Walt Disney Company have aligned with new-media players Dailymotion, Veoh Networks, Microsoft Corp. and MySpace for a set of guidelines to protect copyrighted content online. …

BURBANK, October 19: CBS has given full season orders to its freshman comedy The Big Bang Theory and the returning drama The Unit. The Big Bang Theory, from Warner Bros. Television, becomes the first new comedy to receive a full …

VIENNA/MUNICH, October 19: The Austrian banking group BAWAG has sold its 42.44 percent interest in ATV to Tele München Group’s Concorde Media Beteiligungs, which already holds a stake in the Austrian broadcaster. The exact purchase price was not revealed; a …

LONDON, October 19: In a deal with Disney-ABC International Television, the U.K.’s Channel 4 will make ABC series available for viewing on a free, ad-supported basis on its video-on-demand channel, 4oD, for up to 30 days following their initial linear …

NEW YORK, October 19: Jon Stewart has reached an agreement with Comedy Central to extend his contract as the host of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart through 2010. The news came on the heels of the network announcing that …

NEW YORK, October 19: SCI FI Channel has greenlit a two-hour action drama pilot from CBS Paramount Network Television titled Revolution, which will begin production in January 2008. Revolution is the story of “New America,” a distant colony on an …

LOS ANGELES, October 19: MarVista Entertainment has granted the Japanese free-TV and home-entertainment rights for the teen drama Beyond the Break to Japanese distributor Twin Co. Twin Co. will license the rights to the 17 one-hour episode series within Japan, …

LONDON, October 19: Independent British drama producer Carnival Films has been commissioned by ITV1 to produce Midnight Man, a 3×1-hour conspiracy thriller mini-series starring James Nesbitt. Written by David Kane (Sea of Souls), Midnight Man tells a story of a …

TORONTO, October 19: marblemedia and Blueprint Entertainment have partnered to produce 13 half-hour episodes of the animated series The Dating Guy, scheduled to air in late 2008 as part of The Detour on TELETOON, the Canadian animation station’s teen/adult programming …

LOS ANGELES, October 19: Kabillion, the multiplatform kids’ program service, has launched a new user avatar system, as well as a variety of Halloween-themed programming. The new avatar system will enable users to personalize their Kabillion experience by creating their …