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MIAMI: Broken Heart, produced by Telemundo and Argos, premieres today in Serbia on Fox in a 3:30 p.m. time slot. The telenovela, which stars Danna Garcia, Jose Angel Llamas, Saby Kamalich and Carlos Torres Torrija, is directed by Moises Ortiz …

UNIVERSAL CITY: Jean-Briac Perrette has been named president of digital and affiliate distribution and content distribution strategy for NBC Universal. Perrette had previously been president of digital distribution, and will continue to report to Jeff Gaspin, the president and COO …

LOS ANGELES: At the L.A. Screenings, Dirk Schweitzer, the senior VP of program acquisition and sales for the RTL Television & Media Group, RTL Germany, found the dramas and comedies he viewed to be of very high quality, but saw …

NEW YORK: The results of a new poll show that only 22 percent of the "Generation Y" demographic—defined here as 18- to 24-year-olds—use Twitter, while 99 percent have a profile on a social-networking site. Conducted by Participatory Marketing Network and …

LONDON: ITV is said to have opened discussions with BSkyB about moving its free-to-air digital channels to a subscription model. The move would take ITV’s three digital channels—ITV2, ITV3 and ITV4—off Freeview. Switching the digital channels to pay would mean …

LOS ANGELES: Microsoft has plans to make its Xbox 360 game console into a portal for movies, TV and social networking, announcing new relationships with Facebook, Twitter and Sky. In harnessing the popularity of social networking, Facebook users would be …

CHICAGO: Playboy Enterprises has announced Scott N. Flanders as its new CEO, also to serve as a member of the board of directors. Flanders is responsible for Playboy’s strategic direction and business operations. He joins the company from Freedom Communications, …

TORONTO: BBC Worldwide Canada and SPACE have firmed up an agreement for the four new specials from the long-running Doctor Who franchise and the third installment of the hit spin-off series Torchwood: Children of Earth. The deal sees SPACE take …

SYDNEY: LMNO Productions has named Southern Star International as the exclusive distributor for all its product outside of the U.S., covering both new titles and the existing catalogue of more than 950 hours of content. The first program announced under …

SILVER SPRING: ITV Global Entertainment has wrapped up its largest deal to date with Acorn Media U.S., in a move that sees more than 300 hours of its programming released on DVD and Blu-ray in North America over the next …