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TORONTO: Breakthrough Entertainment has firmed up sales on a number of its factual programs with broadcasters in Europe, Italy and Australia.  The Re-Inventors went to Discovery in Italy, ABC in Australia, Nord in Poland, Ananey in Israel, Spektrum in Hungary …

HONG KONG: Subhash Chandra, the chairman and founder of Zee Entertainment Enterprises in India, will be a keynote participant in the Cable & Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (CASBAA) Convention in Hong Kong on November 4th. A pioneer in India’s …

LONDON: ALL3MEDIA International has picked up the global rights for Discovery’s U.S. version of the hit factual-entertainment property WA$TED!, for which the company has already secured an agreement for France and French-speaking Europe and Africa with Odysee and Ushuaia TV. …

NEW YORK: Axis3 Apps has taken the exclusive rights to develop and distribution games and applications for iPhones for FitzRoy Media’s Heathcliff and Funny Face properties. As part of the four-year agreement, Axis plans to release the first games this …

  NEW YORK: Recovery is in sight for the global broadcast industry, with forecasts predicting that revenues will increase by 4.8 percent next year, according to Strategy Analytics and D. I. S. Consulting. As Douglas Sheer, the CEO and chief …

LONDON: As part of a wide-ranging review of its businesses, top management at the BBC is considering a partial privatization of its commercial arm, BBC Worldwide. The review, as BBC director-general Mark Thompson told The Guardian, would include listing BBC …

LONDON: The British media regulatory agency Ofcom has announced it will regulate VOD services, including those provided on the Internet by the end of this year. Ofcom is consulting all interested parties on its plans to hand over day-today regulation …

LOS ANGELES: The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation has launched EmmyTVLegends.org, a new video portal that offers free, public access to the Archive of American Television, a collection of videotaped interviews with more than 600 influential figures that …

LONDON: CBS Studios International and Chellomedia have formed a joint venture that will create CBS branded channels in the U.K. The CBS branded channels will be formed from six of Chello Zone’s [Chellomedia’s international broadcast arm] existing portfolio of TV …

ANAHEIM: The Walt Disney Studios has struck a deal with The Beatles’ Apple Corps to develop a new 3-D adaptation of the 1968 classic animated film Yellow Submarine, to be written and directed by Robert Zemeckis. The film will be …