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MIAMI: Venevision International is launching the world premiere of the telenovela Salvador de mujeres (Salvador: A Knockout Lover) at NATPE. The novela stars Ruddy Rodriguez, Carlos Guillermo Haydon and Alejandra Sandoval. It tells the story of Salvador, a boxer who …

LONDON: David Abraham, who currently heads up UKTV, has been appointed as the new chief executive of Channel 4, succeeding Andy Duncan, who stepped down in November. Channel 4 has not yet announced a start date for Abraham. The British broadcaster’s …

ATLANTA: Robot Chicken is returning to Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim, scoring a two-season, 40-episode pickup for a fifth and sixth run. The series is the highest rated original on Adult Swim. Robot Chicken is created and executive produced by Seth …

BETHPAGE/CINCINNATI: Food Network and HGTV are back on Cablevision, after being pulled by Scripps Networks Interactive in a carriage dispute. The two parties have been embroiled in a very public feud since the end of 2009 over how much the cable platform …

LOS ANGELES: NATPE has announced the newly elected members to its 2010 board of directors, with Kevin Beggs, the president of programming and production for Lionsgate Television, to serve a third term as chair. Newly elected members include Normal 0 …

LONDON: Robert Nashak is joining BBC Worldwide as executive VP of digital entertainment, to oversee the company’s gaming strategy and find new opportunities across a range of gaming platforms. Nashak will be based in Los Angeles and will report to …

TORONTO: The new Mexican free-to-air multichannel platform Hi-tv, operated by Group Salinas, has inked a licensing deal with Cookie Jar Entertainment covering 1,200 library titles. Grupo Salinas—the parent company of Mexican broadcaster TV Azteca—secured clearance to launch Hi-TV from Mexico’s …

SYDNEY: Former Disney and Nickelodeon producer Jim Ballantine has been named managing director of Flying Bark Studio, the Australian animation studio of Studio 100. He succeeds Eric Claeys, who left to carry out a one-year reorganization assignment. Ballantine previously held …

LAUSANNE: The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has granted the broadcast rights for the 2010 and 2012 Olympic Games to Televisión Nacional de Chile (TVN) and Corporación de Televisión de la Pontificia Universidad Católica (Canal 13) in Chile. TVN and Canal …

ATLANTA: TNT has given the go-ahead to three new original shows, one of which is an alien-invasion series from DreamWorks Television and Steven Spielberg. The as-yet-untitled series stars Noah Wyle (ER) as the leader of a rag-tag group of soldiers …