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SINGAPORE: ESPN STAR Sports has renewed its partnership with Eurosport Group for the ICC World Twenty20 and also to launch the What is Cricket? educational campaign. The campaign will feature five-minute promotional clips that introduce key elements of the sport. The …

MEXICO CITY/NEW YORK: A 13th season, consisting of 65 half-hour episodes, of the Latin American version of Sesame Street, Plaza Sésamo, is in the works from co-producers Sesame Workshop and Televisa. The new season will spotlight conflict resolution and emphasize …

HONG KONG: Cartoon Network Enterprises (CNE) has named Ilissa Howard as the director of North and South Asia CNE and Asia Pacific production development. Based in Hong Kong, the newly created post will see Howard take on responsibility for the …

STRASBOURG: The 12 main European broadcasting groups—operating a total of 534 channels—saw their revenues fall just 1.9 percent in 2009, as compared with 3.3 percent in 2008, according to new data from the European Audiovisual Observatory. The Observatory analyzed the …

LOS ANGELES: The four-day LATV Fest, which takes place from July 12 to 15, is to host participants from a cross-section of industries, boasting top-level TV and digital content producers, development executives, agents, advertising and brand executives, software solutions, technology …

LONDON: Starting this month, KidsCo will be aired in Malta and Gozo on the the cable provider Melita’s Digital Medium tier 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The channel will air programming such as The Wiggles, Inspector Gadget, …

WASHINGTON, D.C.: National Geographic Channel has tapped Darlow Smithson Productions to produce three new engineering specials that spotlight Abu Dhabi and Dubai to be featured in its Megastructures strand. The new episodes will be aired as part of Megastructures internationally …

SINGAPORE: The Media Development Authority of Singapore (MDA) is boosting funding for television, film, animation, games, interactive media, publishing and music projects that have international appeal and can roll out on multiple platforms. At its annual Media Business Forum, the …

NEW YORK: Comedy Central has ordered seven further episodes of the animated comedy Ugly Americans, which has averaged 2 million total viewers over the course of its first season. The additional episodes will premiere this October. The series follows a …

NEW YORK: BBC Worldwide has promoted Gareth Williams, formerly the director of new programming, to senior VP of content and production for South America. Williams will be working closely with GP Media in Argentina and Mixer in Brazil, in which …