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SINGAPORE: Malaysia’s Secretary General for the Ministry of Information, Communication and Culture, Datuk Wira Kamaruddin bin Siaraf, spoke to World Screen Newsflash at Asia TV Forum about the country’s efforts to ramp up its content-creation initiatives. Announced at the ATF …

SANTA MONICA: The new online video destination MOVIECLIPS.com, which launched today in beta, features more than 12,000 two-minute streaming clips from the libraries of 20th Century Fox, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios (MGM), Paramount, Sony Pictures, Universal Pictures and Warner Bros. Pictures. The …

AMSTERDAM: The Dutch premium sports channel Sport1 has renewed its exclusive broadcast rights to the English Premier League for another three seasons. The deal covers live or highlight rights for television, the Internet and mobile phones. Kees Jansma, the managing …

LONDON: Outright Distribution has established a significant new fund, available from the beginning of 2010, that is to be invested in a combination of first-look deals and advances, primarily for content generated from within the U.K. and U.S. Outright is …

BURBANK: ABC’s Ugly Betty is moving to Wednesday nights beginning January 6, complementing the network’s comedy block, with Shark Tank filling its Friday 9 p.m. slot. Ugly Betty, based on the Colombian novela, will air Wednesdays at 10 p.m. The …

LONDON: Jane Rogerson has been appointed to the newly created role of director of commissioning at UKTV. Rogerson is currently the director of factual and factual entertainment commissioning. She now takes on sole responsibility for managing UKTV’s in-house commissioning team …

MILAN/CAMBRIDGE: SKY Italia is using Brightcove’s Internet TV platform for its online video initiatives on SKY.it. The Brightcove platform will be used to by the satellite TV operator to deploy ad-supported, customized video players for its sports, news and lifestyle …

TORONTO/LONDON: DHX Media has made personnel appointments within its senior team, as well as within key operating divisions. Anne Loi has been upped from senior VP of finance and operations at DECODE Entertainment to senior VP of finance and operations …

SINGAPORE: IPTV platform mioTV in Singapore is set to launch the Sundance Channel and the female-targeted lifestyle network WE tv. The deal with SingTel’s pay-TV platform marks the first Asian carriage for the two Rainbow Media-operated channels, and the first …

SINGAPORE/MANILA: Disney Channels Southeast Asia will begin selling ad time on its feeds in Singapore and the Philippines, working with StarHub and SkyCable, respectively. The cable platforms will serve as the local advertising sales representatives for Disney Channels in each …