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LONDON: SBS Australia, Living in New Zealand and BBC Worldwide Channels are among the companies to have signed up for programming from Electric Sky. Living has picked up the new HD series A Place in the Sun: Home or Away …

BURBANK: Rita Ferro has been promoted to executive VP of Disney Media Sales and Marketing, effective June 28. Ferro will relocate from Miami to New York. Ferro has been working in Miami with Disney and ESPN’s Latin American business since …

NEW YORK: A newly released Ernst & Young report found that 73 percent of CFOs from the world’s largest media and entertainment companies are optimistic about revenue opportunities presented by online and mobile platforms. Ernst & Young surveyed CFOs from …

LONDON: Endemol’s The Money Drop has been picked up for a broadcast pilot by FOX, following the company’s ABC deal on 101 Ways to Leave a Gameshow. Production starts this summer for Endemol USA’s The Money Drop pilot, based on Endemol …

HONG KONG: VTC Multimedia Corporation’s newly launched Vietnamese DTH platform is adding six channels from Turner Broadcasting System Asia Pacific to its lineup. VTC will distribute CNN International, Cartoon Network, HLN, Boomerang, TCM Turner Classic Movies and truTV, beginning July …

LOS ANGELES: The hit ABC reality series Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, produced by Endemol USA, will be honored with NATPE’s third annual Innovator Award at the LATV Fest on July 13. Endemol USA’s Caroline Baumgard, the senior VP of development, …

SANTA MONICA: Debmar-Mercury and ITV Studios have teamed up for the new talk show The Chefs, with Debmar-Mercury acquiring the worldwide ownership rights to the series, while ITV Studios handles the international distribution. Debmar-Mercury will likely offer a multi-week on-air test …

TORONTO: Breakthrough Entertainment heads into DISCOP East with a number of deals already secured in Central and Eastern Europe. Battlefield Mysteries and Greatest Tank Battles were picked up by Czech TV. Greatest Tank Battles has also been licensed to CODI …

LOS ANGELES: New DTH platforms in Taiwan and Vietnam have added The MGM Channel to their lineups. The MGM Channel launches on the DishHD platform in Taiwan today, following on a launch of The MGM Channel on the K+ platform, operated …

BANFF: Canada’s W Network has a slate of nine new original series in production for its fall and winter schedules, among them Come Dine With Me Canada. For the fall, series in production include All for Nothing, which follows two …