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MIAMI: Dori Media Group will be on hand at the Asia TV Forum (ATF) with a catalogue that covers telenovelas, formats and drama series for a range of audiences. Among the highlights is the romantic comedy Date Blind, a co-production of …

PREMIUM: Henry Tan, COO of Malaysian DTH platform Astro, talks about how the company is catering to its subscribers with relevant content and advanced services like HD and VOD. Celebrating its 15th anniversary in 2011, Malaysian platform Astro today reaches …

LONDON: ITV plc group revenues rose 11 percent to £1.46 billion in the first nine months of the year, driven by a recovery in ad revenues. In the third quarter alone, ITV TV ad revenues rose 16 percent, with a 10-percent rise forecast …

SAN FRANCISCO/PHILADELPHIA: The new Xfinity TV app from Comcast will serve as a TV guide and mobile video player that can be accessed directly on the iPad. The app, which was demonstrated at the Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco, …

MIAMI: The Telemundo Internacional telenovela Elena’s Ghost made its debut yesterday in Albania on Digital B. The telenovela has already debuted with much success in Latin America, where the show achieved a 31.6-percent market share in Panama. It has also …

LONDON: Thinkbox, the marketing body for commercial TV in the U.K., has found that 89 percent of on-demand TV usage is to catch up with linear TV viewing, itself up 14 percent since 2008. Catch-up services provided by broadcasters are the …

LONDON: Johnny Webb, who has served as the managing director of the LIVING TV Group for four years, is exiting the company at the end of January 2011. Webb became MD at the end of 2006, when the company was …

LOS ANGELES: A second season on Jenni Rivera Presents, a reality series that stars famed Latin recording artist Jenni Rivera, is slated for a spring 2011 premiere on Telemundo’s mun2. The show will be a spinoff of Jenni Rivera Presents …

TORONTO: Breakthrough Entertainment has started principal photography on Single White Spenny, a new original comedy starring Kenny vs. Spenny‘s Spencer Rice that is set to air on Showcase in spring 2011. Filming began yesterday and runs until December 15 in …

UNIVERSAL CITY: NBC has announced a series of changes for its midseason schedule, which will see the recently renewed 30 Rock moving to a 10 p.m. slot on Thursdays. The freshman action-drama The Cape leads off with a special two-hour premiere …