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LOS ANGELES: Ahead of its October 10 launch, The Hub—the Discovery/Hasbro joint-venture kids’ channel—has announced new additions to its programming slate, including the acquisition of BBC Worldwide’s In the Night Garden. “In the Night Garden has enchanted preschoolers and their families across …

LONDON: RDF Rights has signed a deal with two Italian broadcasters, Rai Yoyo and DeAKids, for the acquisition of 100 episodes of the preschool hit Waybuloo. These sales bring the total number of territories that Waybuloo airs in to 79 …

LOS ANGELES: Engine Entertainment, founded earlier this year by ex-Power executive Chris Philip, has entered into a 50/50 joint venture with Mexico’s Bross Al Cuadrado to produce and distribute Spanish-language programming. The new venture, Engine Latino, will be run out of …

SILVER SPRING: Long-time Discovery executive Bill Goodwyn has been promoted to president of global distribution and CEO of Discovery Education. Goodwyn, a 23-year veteran at Discovery, most recently served as president of domestic distribution and enterprises. He has overseen the …

NEW YORK/LOS ANGELES: The mobile-content joint venture established in April by 12 major broadcast groups has named Fox Networks Group’s Erik Moreno and NBC Universal’s Salil Dalvi as interim co-general managers. Mobile Content Venture (MCV) was established by Belo Corp., Cox Media Group, …

NEW YORK: Two new appointments have been made within BBC Worldwide’s licensed consumer products division: Carla Peyton and Ian Wickham. Peyton is to become the senior VP of licensed consumer products for BBC Worldwide Americas. Wickham becomes head of retail development …

LOS ANGELES/MILAN: After viewing pilots in Los Angeles, Francesco Mozzetti, the head of acquisitions and sales at Italy’s leading commercial broadcaster, Mediaset, noted, “this was the year of procedurals, after vampires and doctors had monopolized last year’s Screenings.” Mozzetti and …

BANFF: The Banff World Television Festival will present awards in three special achievement categories during a luncheon on June 14, to Temple Street Productions, Panavision and director Louie Psihoyos. Temple Street Productions is being honored with the Lionsgate/Maple Pictures Innovative …

LONDON/SYDNEY/CULVER CITY: Sony Pictures Entertainment’s multiplatform video network Crackle is now available in the U.K. and Australia, in addition to its U.S. destination. Crackle is available in the U.S. at crackle.com, as well as at AOL, Bebo, Boxee, Break, Dailymotion, …

LONDON/MOSCOW: The science-fiction channel AXN SCI-FI is now available in more than 3 million households across Russia and the countries of CIS, with Sony Pictures Television (SPT) having notched up a slew of carriage agreements since the network’s December 2007 …