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NEW YORK: 60 Minutes has become the first prime-time news magazine to have its own stand-alone app for the iPad. The 60 Minutes iPad app delivers high-quality video and text versions of the show’s content, including weekly previews, segments, web …

BETHPAGE: Cablevision Systems Corporation is looking into spinning off Rainbow Media Holdings, its division encompassing AMC and Sundance Channel, among other businesses, to stockholders in a tax-free transaction. The company’s board has approved filing the necessary documents with the Internal …

LONDON: Cineflix Studios has hired Nick Witkowski, a founder of Alchemy, to work with the company in a consultant role on international financing and sales for scripted programming. He reports to Glen Salzman, Cineflix’s CEO. Witkowski will be based in …

MONTEREY: The number of people subscribing to pay-TV services in the U.S. fell by 119,000 customers in the third quarter, as compared with the 346,000 additions in the year-ago period. The new data from SNL Kagan comes amid increasing concerns about cord-cutting—customers canceling …

LONDON: DRG has picked up the international distribution rights for the ITV2 special Kate & Wills: A Royal Love Story, which spotlights the recently engaged royal couple. The one-hour special, produced by ITN Productions, charts the highs and lows of …

NEW YORK/LONDON/BARCELONA: 41 Entertainment (41e) has hired a new sales executive, Michèle Dal Cin, who will serve as the VP of licensing and home entertainment. Dal Cin was most recently with Spectra Animation, where she established a new sales division …

LOS ANGELES: The Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) has filed a lawsuit against Dick Clark Productions (DCP), accusing the outfit that produces the annual Golden Globe Awards ceremony of breach of contract. The organizer of the Globes alleges that DCP, which …

NEW YORK: A&E Television Networks (AETN) has appointed Ian Jones as the managing director for content distribution and commercial development for its international business. Jones, to be based on New York, will be responsible for managing the growth of AETN’s …

NEW YORK: Actor Luke Perry talks to World Screen about the inspiration for the TV movie Goodnight for Justice, the potential to develop a series of projects with the character he plays in the film and the appeal of the …

WASHINGTON, D.C.: A number of leading media executives, including News Corporation’s Chase Carey and Univision’s Joe Uva, appeared before the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation yesterday to discuss retransmission consent and faced some tough opening remarks from Committee …