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NEW YORK: Veria TV is to provide health and wellness programming to U.S. troops stationed around the world via a three-year distribution deal with the American Forces Network. The American Forces Network (AFN) is operated by the Department of Defense, …

LONDON: Amid a continued phone-hacking scandal that is threatening its proposed takeover of BSkyB, News Corporation has announced that the 168-year-old U.K. tabloid News of the World will print its last issue this weekend. The announcement was made today by …

HONG KONG: The 24-hour general-entertainment network WarnerTV has secured carriage on PCCW’s now TV platform in Hong Kong, offering up series like The Closer and a slate of feature films. Operated by Warner Bros. International Branded Services, the linear channel …

MELBOURNE: On the heels of announcing its brand-new content distribution division, Inverleigh Media Holdings has launched an in-house production company, Intrepid Production | by Inverleigh, with programming to be represented exclusively by the newly established DSI. Intrepid Productions, based in …

BUENOS AIRES: Endemol Polska has started production on the Polish version of Telefe International’s The Successful Mr. and Mrs. Pells, which will launch in the fall on TVP. TVP will launch the show under the local title Informacje 2 Drugiej …

LOS ANGELES: The third season of the TLC series Hoarding: Buried Alive is to premiere Sunday, July 10, at 9 p.m. The new season features nine hour-long episodes, each of which highlight someone with an out of control hoarding problem, …

ENGLEWOOD: Starz Entertainment has added Michael Thornton to its executive team as the executive VP of business and legal affairs of programming, digital and worldwide distribution. As executive VP, Thornton will develop the strategic direction of business and legal affairs …

LONDON: Freeview has dedicated a four-hour prime-time block for airing Food Network UK programming, including hits such as Ace of Cakes. In the U.K., the channel is already available on Sky and Freesat. The Freeview block adds a further 22.6 …

MIAMI: Telemundo Internacional’s novela The Queen of the South (La Reina del Sur) premiered on July 4 on the Antenna TV channel in Cyprus during the 10:10 p.m. time slot. The Queen of the South has seen success in Mexico, …

NEW YORK: GroupM has lowered its forecast for global adspend in 2011 from 5.8 percent to 4.8 percent as a result of the economic ramifications of the Japanese earthquake and tsunami and political unrest in the Middle East. “It’s highly unusual …