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MEXICO CITY: Televisa Internacional is heading to the Asia Television Forum with a slate of telenovelas, series and reality contests to present to buyers, with titles such as Wild Heart.  The 150×1-hour HD telenovela Wild Heart follows two individuals who fall …

LONDON: The winners were unveiled for the British Academy Children’s Awards, with Nick Jr. taking home the win for channel of the year and Richard Hammond being named best presenter. Nick Jr. beat out CBBC, CBeebies and Cyw for the …

LONDON: World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) has extended its relationship with BSkyB for another five years, taking the partnership into its 25th year. BSkyB continues to hold the exclusive British broadcast rights of WWE’s weekly programming and special events, providing content …

LONDON: The BBC’s director of global news, Richard Sambrook, is leaving the company after 30 years.   Sambrook has said he is leaving to pursue a project "outside of journalism." He will be replaced by Peter Horrocks, who will combine being director of …

LONDON: ITV has acquired the remaining 25-percent stake in GMTV from The Walt Disney Company, giving it full ownership in the breakfast-time channel. ITV, which had already owned a 75-percent share, said the acquisition is part of its strategy to …

SINGAPORE: The 24-hour English-language channel Russia Today is launching on SingTel’s mioTV platform on December 1. The channel will be offered free to all mioTV subscribers. Its topics span five main categories: news and headlines, which provides interviews with newsmakers …

RESTON: Twenty-eight billion videos were viewed online during the month of October by more than 167 million U.S.-based web users, according to ComScore, with Google sites accounting for 38 percent of all videos viewed online. Videos watched on YouTube accounted for …

LONDON: LIVING has commissioned the newly created prime-time entertainment format My Ugly Best Friend from ITV Studios. The hour-long series will premiere in December on LIVING. The show will transform women who find themselves living in the shadow of their …

  LONDON: Optomen International has closed new deals across seven different territories on two series featuring the famed British chef Gordon Ramsay. Deals have been firmed up for the fifth season of Gordon Ramsay’s F Word, currently airing on Channel …

LONDON/LISBON: Chello Multicanal and ZON Multimédia have entered into a partnership for the production, marketing and distribution of children’s, movie and entertainment channels in Portugal and Portuguese-speaking Africa. The new company, Dreamia: Serviços de Televisão, is owned equally by both partners. Eduardo …