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WARSAW: More than 5 million households in Poland have at least two TV sets, according to a survey by TGI MillwardBrown, while 1 million have three or more. The number of households with at least three TV sets has doubled …

MADRID: The Spanish TV series The Boat (El Barco) from Globomedia production for Antena 3 has been sold by Imagina International to channels in Latin America and Eastern Europe. The series will be available in 23 countries in the coming …

ISTANBUL: The Turkish media conglomerate Doğan Media Group has sold its Star TV station to the Doğuş Media Group. Dogan sold the entertainment channel to Dogus, owners of one of the country’s largest banks, Garanti. Dogus paid $327 million for …

LONDON: Jon Mountague has been named DLT Entertainment’s executive editor in a newly created position. Mountague will report to Don Taffner Jr., the president of DLT. He is tasked with growing DLT’s production interests out of London in a new …

SILVER SPRING: Discovery Networks International is launching Travel & Living Channel (TLC) in Latin America, set to go live on November 1 in 38 countries across the region. Formerly Discovery Travel & Living, TLC will reach 26 million subscribers in Latin …

LONDON: Children’s indie Darrall Macqueen has been commissioned by CBeebies to produce a second season of the preschool series Baby Jake. Production has begun on 26 new episodes of the series, which first launched in July 2011 on CBeebies and …

LOS ANGELES: ¡Q’Viva! The Chosen, the new Latin-focused talent show from Simon Fuller’s XIX Entertainment, Jennifer Lopez, Marc Anthony and Jamie King, has been picked up by Univision for the U.S. market, along with deals in Mexico and Colombia. The show …

STOCKHOLM: Modern Times Group (MTG) has taken on the exclusive distribution rights for the National Hockey League (NHL) in Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland. The deal with Medge Consulting gives MTG the exclusive rights for live coverage on free and …

HONG KONG: Sony Pictures Television (SPT) has sold its ’60s-set period drama Pan Am to STAR in India and TVNZ in New Zealand. The show will launch in India on STAR in early 2012, followed by a premiere in New …

ISMANING: The German broadcaster SPORT1 has secured a rights package from Dorna Sports for MotoGP racing coverage through 2014. The motorcycle racing series will also be available in Austria and Switzerland on the pay-TV channel SPORT1+. With the current season, SPORT1 …