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NEW YORK, January 12: Verizon has reached retransmission-consent and program-carriage deals to bring a range of CBS programming to its television and wireless customers. With the retransmission consent deal for CBS’s owned and operated stations, Verizon will continue to offer …

LONDON, January 12: The European venture-capital firm Balderton Capital, whose investments include Setanta Sports, has raised $430 million for its new technology and media fund. This is the company’s fourth fund, after having raised $550 million in December 2006, $375 …

STAMFORD, January 12: In a move that will result in annual savings of about $8 million, World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) is cutting about 10 percent of its staff. The cuts will be made across all areas of its global operations. …

SAN FRANCISCO, January 12: The CBS Corporation-owned TV.com is positioning itself as a competitor to Hulu, announcing a slate of content partners today—among them Showtime, Endemol USA and MGM—that increase its slate to more than 38,000 videos. The content partnerships …

WASHINGTON D.C./SAN BRUNO, January 12: Members of the U.S. House and Senate will each be able to create and control channels on YouTube, in an effort to give users of the video-sharing site insight into the happenings on Capitol Hill. …

HOLLYWOOD, January 12: HBO received a number of honors at last night’s Golden Globe Awards, while AMC’s Mad Men took home the statuette for best drama series for the second year in a row, and NBC triumphed in the comedy …

MUNICH, January 12: Studio100 Media/EM.Entertainment has secured new licensees for its properties Maya the Bee, Heidi and Tabaluga. Santex Moden secured the rights for Maya the Bee and Heidi for a broad-reaching portfolio of licensed products in the textile area. …

LONDON/NEW YORK, January 12: Nickelodeon and Viacom Consumer Products (NVCP) has closed a licensing deal with Spain’s IMC Toys to develop a new line of electronic musical instruments and walkie talkies inspired by Nickelodeon’s hit preschool property Dora the Explorer. …

LOS ANGELES, January 12: Production is under way in New York on a second season of HBO’s Emmy Award-winning half-hour drama In Treatment, slated to launch this April. Gabriel Byrne, who picked up a Golden Globe win for best actor …

LAREN, January 9: Maarten Meijs, who has been handling worldwide sales of all Talpa Media's catalogue for the past year through Endemol International, is returning to Talpa Content to take up the post of director of sales. Meijs is currently …