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HONG KONG: Google, Skynindo and Telstra are among the new digital players to recently join CASBAA as corporate members. The Bollywood content provider Hungama Digital Media, Australian satellite services provider NewSat and tech company Ali Corporation in Taiwan are newly …

TORONTO: Celebrity designer Jason Dussault and his partner, the entrepreneur/model/actress Mashiah Vaughn, star in the new Citytv original series Dussault Inc., represented by Cineflix International. The show will debut on Citytv on September 24. Celebrity guest stars will also be …

WASHINGTON: HISTORY and the National Park Foundation are partnering for a live webcast of the memorial dedicated to Flight 93 on September 10, almost ten years after the terrorist attacks of 9/11. The dedication will be broadcast on Flight93Dedication.org and …

SINGAPORE: mio TV is set to launch Jia Le, a new 24-hour Asian entertainment channel with content in Hokkien dialect and Mandarin from top producers in Taiwan and Singapore, starting August 29. Jia Le On-Demand will also be available to …

NEW YORK: Psychiatrist and media personality Janet Taylor is on board to lead the guest support services team on The Jeremy Kyle Show, a new conflict-resolution talk show from distributor Debmar-Mercury and producer ITV Studios America. Jeremy Kyle, the U.K.’s …

LONDON: By 2016, 94 percent of U.K. households will have an HD-ready TV set, according to the latest forecasts from Informa Telecoms & Media. The worldwide average is 48 percent, putting the U.K. third globally, behind Canada and New Zealand, …

LUXEMBOURG: RTL Group posted a net profit of 324 million euros for the first half of the year, up 26.1 percent from half-year 2010, with revenue up 3.4 percent to 2.75 billion euros, reflecting higher TV ad revenues in Germany, France …

BOGOTÁ: Caracol TV Internacional has hired Roberto Corrente to lead the company’s efforts in Europe and Asia, serving the company’s clients from the offices in Spain. “My main objective is to extend Caracol Televisión’s product in the international marketplace, in …

OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network is debuting the special Life 2.0 tomorrow as part of its monthly feature-documentary strand. As Lisa Erspamer, the executive VP of production and development at the channel, tells TV Real, the OWN Documentary Club is focused …

SCOTTSDALE: HDTVs were cited as the second most-desired device for consumer-electronics purchases in the Asia Pacific, according to ABI Research, with smartphones ranking as the top pick. ABI Research conducted a trio of surveys on the Asia-Pacific consumer-electronics markets. Among …