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LONDON: In its survey on the communications markets in 12 major territories, Ofcom found that TV viewing in the U.K. rose by 3 percent last year, the biggest gain out of all the countries featured in the report. The British …

BURBANK: Roy Edward Disney, who helped revitalize the animation division of the company founded by his uncle, Walt Disney, has passed away at the age of 79. The son of Disney Studios co-founder Roy O. Disney passed away yesterday at …

MUMBAI/NEW YORK: Time Warner is further expanding its business in India—where it already operates Cartoon Network, Pogo and WB, among other channels—taking a majority stake in the Hindi-language general-entertainment channel NDTV Imagine. Turner Asia Pacific Ventures has reached a deal …

LOS ANGELES: Among the executives set to participate in the 2010 NATPE Market & Conference are Shine Group’s Elisabeth Murdoch—in a session moderated by World Screen‘s Anna Carugati—Discovery’s David Zaslav and Tornante’s Michael Eisner. Zaslav, the president and CEO of …

MILAN: A court in Rome has ordered YouTube to immediately remove all Mediaset content that was illegally uploaded to the site. In July 2008, the Italian media giant filed a 500 million euros lawsuit against YouTube for the illegal commercial …

LONDON: Endemol Germany is teaming up with Quirin Berg and Max Wiedemann, the producers behind the Academy Award-winning film The Lives of Others, to set up Wiedemann Berg Television, which will specialize in drama programming. Wiedemann Berg Television will operate …

  NEW YORK: David Ellender, the global CEO of FremantleMedia Enterprises (FME), talks in this video interview about the company’s reputation as a consistent supplier of quality content, and how the business of managing brands is changing.    Earlier this month, …

ORLANDO: This spring, a new six-part celebrity reality series from Donald Trump is headed to Golf Channel. Donald J. Trump’s Fabulous World of Golf will give viewers a behind-the-scenes look at Trump’s golf empire, which includes properies from West Palm …

TORONTO: Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, author of the international bestseller Hitler’s Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust, has been named as keynote speaker at the 2010 History Makers Conference, being held in New York City from January 27 to 29. …

HONG KONG: ITV Studios Global Entertainment is to launch the general-entertainment channel Granada TV on Astro in Malaysia. The channel offers a lineup of contemporary dramas, comedy, reality programming and talk and entertainment shows. Programs available to Astro viewers as …