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SINGAPORE: Discovery Networks Asia-Pacific (DNAP) has expanded its channels on PT Karyamegah Adijaya (Aora TV Satelit), one of Indonesia’s leading pay-TV operators, with the launch of TLC, Turbo and Discovery HD World. The TLC lifestyle channel is now available on …

PARIS: For the first nine months of 2011, consolidated revenue at TF1 was relatively flat, up 0.7 percent, to 1.8 billion euros, though net profit was down 26.2 percent to 125.2 million euros. TF1 saw its profit slide 93.1 percent …

BURBANK: The Walt Disney Company reported a 30-percent year-on-year gain in net income for its fourth quarter, reaching $1.09 billion, while revenue was up 7 percent to $10.4 billion. Revenues at the Media Networks segment increased 9 percent in the …

HONG KONG: The CASBAA Convention, which wrapped last week, shined a light on the rapidly changing business models and technological shifts taking place in the TV landscape across the Asia Pacific. “The new models provide huge opportunity,” said Simon Twiston …

NEW YORK: Tom Zappala, who previously served as the executive VP of acquisitions and scheduling at Disney/ABC Cable Networks Group, has been hired by Spike TV as its executive VP of programming. Zappala will oversee the scheduling and media planning for …

NEW YORK: Fourth-quarter revenues at Viacom were up 22 percent to $4 billion, while profit gained 33 percent to $614 million. Media Networks contributed $2.29 billion in revenues, up 8 percent. Worldwide and domestic advertising were up 7 percent in …

LONDON: Production company Darlow Smithson has been commissioned by Channel 4 in the U.K. to produce the one-hour documentary Vulcan Bomber: Mission Impossible (working title). Vulcan Bomber: Mission Impossible is set to air this fall. Julian Ware, the creative director …

BURBANK: Disney Channel has ordered a fourth season of the Emmy Award-winning kids’ series Phineas and Ferb, with new episodes rolling out through 2014. The Disney Television Animation production is created and executive-produced by Dan Povenmire and Jeff "Swampy" Marsh. …

NEW YORK: Film Annex is to promote and distribute content from Metan Development Group via its online platform. Film Annex is currently the online distributor of Metan’s flagship series Hello! Hollywood, a Chinese entertainment news program that gives viewers around …

BARCELONA: Imira Entertainment has secured sales in Latin America and Iberia for the animated series The Smurfs from distributor IMPS, including a deal with Cartoon Network in Spain. Cartoon Network picked up 104 episodes of The Smurfs, comprised of 256 …