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LONDON: The BT Vision Kids channel has become the first service to offer children on-demand access to the hit show The Wiggles. Viewers can watch, pause or rewind the show whenever they want. The series made its debut on BT Vision …

LONDON: Anthony Rose, the chief technology officer of YouView, the yet-to-launch IPTV joint venture formerly known as Project Canvas, after serving less than six months. Rose, one of the architects of the BBC iPlayer, will continue to work with the company …

NEW YORK: Richard Propper, the founder and president of Solid Entertainment, discusses his business strategy in this video interview, along with talking about WESTDOC, the conference he co-founded for the nonfiction arena.   Through its extensive and diverse catalogue, Solid …

LONDON/AUCKLAND: BBC Worldwide has planned to relaunch the Documentary Channel in New Zealand as BBC Knowledge next year, joining BBC World News and UKTV on the Sky platform. The factual channel has already found success in more than a dozen …

SINGAPORE: The Asia TV Forum opened here in Singapore today with an overall 15-percent increase in attendance, reports Reed Exhibitions, including an 18-percent rise in buyer participation, for a total of 2,600 attendees. Under the theme "Above and Beyond," ATF also reports …

DOHA: India’s Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has given Al Jazeera English a license to launch its 24-hour news and current-affairs network in the country. The channel has been given the go-ahead to downlink its feed in India, following a …

BEVERLY HILLS: Starz Entertainment has given a ten-episode order to Magic City, a new series from Mitch Glazer that is set in a Miami hotel in the early 1960s. Written and produced by Glazer and exec-produced by Geyer Kosinski and Tony To, …

SÃO PAULO: Globo TV International has sold its drama series City of Men and Internal Affairs to Poland’s Polcast Television for launch on Tele 5 at the beginning of 2011. City of Men is a spin-off of the Academy Award-nominated City …

BUENOS AIRES: TF1 Productions has shot two pilots for a French version of the Telefe International game show Just in Time. The TF1 pilots, called Apres L’heure c’est plus l’heur, were shot last month on a 1,100-meter set using nine cameras. Another …

MUNICH: The ProSiebenSat.1 Group has purchased 1&1 Internet’s 50-percent stake in maxdome, giving it full ownership of the VOD portal. maxdome was founded in July 2006 as a joint venture between the two companies, each of which holding a 50-percent …