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ALVISO/ENGLEWOOD: DISH Network and EchoStar have agreed to pay $500 million to TiVo to settle their long-running patent dispute. TiVo, DISH Network and EchoStar have agreed to dismiss all pending litigation between the companies with prejudice and to dissolve all …

BUENOS AIRES: Artear’s Showmatch is set to debut its 2011 season on Chilean and Ecuadorian broadcast stations. The entertainment show, which is hosted by Marcelo Tinelli, can also be found on ATV Red Nacional in Bolivia and Canal Sur in …

BOGOTÁ: Caracol Television has promoted Lisette Osorio from international director to senior director of international sales. In her current position, Osorio, who has been with Caracol for five years, has managed the commercialization of content in Latin America and a …

HOLLYWOOD: HIP Brands, the third-party licensing banner within The Jim Henson Company, has scored the global licensing rights, excluding the Philippines, to the multiplatform product Psyclops. Psyclops, which is targeted at teens and tweens, features one-eyed characters that embrace the …

SAN DIEGO: Suzy’s Zoo Studios is set to create a new interactive website this summer, which will feature the company’s brands in a range of games, books, fan clubs, blogs and more. The web environment and social media platforms are …

NEW YORK: Kees Abrahams, the president of international production at Sony Pictures Television (SPT), talks about what the company is offering the market in terms of light entertainment, and gives an overview of SPT’s business in emerging format markets like Asia …

CULVER CITY: Bullproof, a first-of-its-kind native 3D "sportumentary" series documenting professional bullfighters, has scored a weekly slot on 3net starting May 5. The hour-long weekly series spotlights the cowboys of the Championship Bull Riding (CBR) circuit: Matt Baldwin, Cody Sosebee, …

TORONTO: Dan Cutforth and Jane Lipsitz, the founders of Magical Elves Productions, are to deliver the Non-Fiction keynote at this year’s Banff World Media Festival. The pair will speak about the state of the reality phenomenon on TV and the …

TORONTO: The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) has given its approval for Knowledge West Communications’ acquisition of the BBC Kids specialty channel. The license was previously owned through a joint venture between BBC Worldwide and Shaw Media. The new ownership is …

TORONTO: Hot Docs has set up a special one-off charity screening of Restrepo, in memory of co-director Tim Hetherington, who was killed in an explosion in the Libyan city of Misrata last week. The screening will be held at the …