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FID Shores Up Israeli Deals

August 10, 2006

LONDON, August 10: Fremantle International Distribution has licensed a number of factual titles from Sundance Channel and Atlantic Productions to Noga in Israel. Titles from the Sundance portfolio included in the deal are the 6×1-hour Iconoclasts; Transgeneration, which explores the …

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Ripe Digital Unveils On-Demand Network for Car Buffs

August 10, 2006

LOS ANGELES, August 10: Ripe Digital Entertainment (RDE) is set to launch OctaneTV, an on-demand network targeted to the youth car culture lifestyle and motor enthusiast, on Comcast and Time Warner Cable VOD platforms, as well as on the Internet …

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Profits, Revenues Drop at 4Kids Entertainment

August 10, 2006

NEW YORK, August 10: 4Kids Entertainment’s second quarter saw revenues fall 9 percent to $16.7 million, while profits fell 94 percent to $34,000. For the six months ended June 30, 2006, net revenues totaled $35.9 million compared to $37.6 million …

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GSN Sued by Ultimate Blackjack Tour

August 10, 2006

LOS ANGELES, August 10: Ultimate Blackjack Tour, the entertainment company whose eponymous TV series debuts on CBS Sports this fall, has filed suit against cable network GSN over its show World Series of Blackjack for “breach of contract, breach of …

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SCI FI Renews Doctor Who

August 10, 2006

NEW YORK, August 10: SCI FI Channel in the U.S. has secured a deal with BBC Worldwide Americas for the second season of Doctor Who, slated to return to the NBC Universal-owned network this September. The second season kicks off …

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C4 Online Show Secures Film4 Commission

August 10, 2006

LONDON, August 10: Movie Rush, the film review show developed for Channel 4’s website, has been re-commissioned for launch on Film4. Channel 4 New Media, working with Film4, has commissioned content production agency Zone to produce a TV version of …

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NGCI Rolls Out New Wildlife Channel

August 10, 2006

WASHINGTON, D.C., August 10: National Geographic Channels International will launch its new wildlife channel, National Geographic Wild, in Hong Kong this month, with further markets expected to come on board in the coming months. Effective August 21, National Geographic Wild …

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EchoStar Profit Down 80 Percent

August 10, 2006

ENGLEWOOD, August 10: Net income at EchoStar Communications Corporation for the second quarter plummeted 80 percent to $169 million, on revenues of $2.46 billion, a 17 percent increase on last year. The company attributed the fall in profit to a …

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BVITV Signs German IPTV Deal

August 10, 2006

MUNICH, August 10: Lost and Desperate Housewives will soon be available for online VOD broadcast in Germany, up to a week before their free-TV airings, on ProSiebenSat.1 Media’s broadband platform maxdome. The deal between Buena Vista International Television (BVITV) and …

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Lionsgate Narrows Loss

August 10, 2006

SANTA MONICA, August 10: Despite an 11-percent drop in revenues to $172.5 million, independent studio Lionsgate has narrowed its first quarter 2007 loss to $3.6 million from last year’s loss of $21.8 million. "We are continuing to grow the business …