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NEW YORK, September 10: The removal of RCTV from the terrestrial airwaves in Venezuela has not increased the ad revenues of other broadcasters in the market, according to a report released exclusively to World Screen Newsflash by the Cisneros Group …

NEW YORK, September 10: Spike TV has announced a two-year extension of its partnership with TNA Entertainment, keeping it as the exclusive cable television home of TNA (Totally Nonstop Action) Wrestling’s weekly athletic entertainment series, iMPACT!, which will expand to …

COLUMBIA/SANTA MONICA, September 10: Lionsgate has acquired the independent production and distribution company Mandate Pictures, whose credits include Stranger Than Fiction, starring Will Ferrell; the upcoming Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium with Dustin Hoffman and Natalie Portman; and Harold & Kumar …

NEW YORK, September 7: The international media publishing group World Screen, in partnership with Brightcove, the leading Internet TV service, has launched a virtual marketplace where users can view video clips from the leading program suppliers. The new one-stop site, …

NEW YORK, September 7: MTV Networks (MTVN) has unveiled a development slate of two dozen targeted websites, expanding its global online portfolio to more than 300 sites by the end of this year. The move furthers MTVN's commitment to its …

LONDON, September 7: KidsCo, the joint venture channel owned by Sparrowhawk Media, DIC Entertainment and Corus Entertainment’s Nelvana Enterprises, has launched across Central and Eastern Europe in Romania, Hungary, Russia, Turkey and Poland after carriage deals were secured with cable …

NEW YORK, September 7: To celebrate its fourth annual Worldwide Day of Play global initiative on September 29, Nickelodeon, along with its sister digital networks including Nicktoons Network and Nick G.A.S., will go off the air for an afternoon from …

LOS ANGELES, September 7: TLC has greenlit six one-hour episodes of a new talk show series hosted by What Not to Wear’s Stacy London, titled Fashionably Late with Stacy London, to air in a 10 p.m. slot beginning November 23. …

BURBANK, September 7: Disney Channel’s High School Musical 2, whose U.S. premiere last month became the most-watched cable telecast in history, will roll out on Disney Channels around the world beginning this weekend. The global rollout of High School Musical …

LONDON, September 7: Fireworks International will make its 22×1-hour vampire crime thriller series Blood Ties available for viewing on video on demand via Virgin Media Digital Television’s On Demand platform. Blood Ties premiered on Virgin Media’s LIVING on August 16 …