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SINGAPORE, November 18: ESPN STAR Sports (ESS) has been appointed as the long-term global TV production partner for cricket's Champions League Twenty20 tournament. ESS recently acquired the exclusive global commercial rights for the league for a period of ten years. …

SACRAMENTO, November 18: A new unscripted drama series from Mark Burnett Productions and Maloof Television will follow the Sacramento Kings basketball team as it undergoes a reformation. Rebuilding the Kingdom will not only profile the team on its comeback trail, …

SINGAPORE, November 18: The Asia Media Festival (AMF), a range of events taking place this December, led by the flagship Asia TV Forum, will put a spotlight on collaborations between Singaporean and Chinese content companies. The two countries signed several …

SANTA CLARA, November 18: Yair Landau, the former president of Sony Pictures Digital, is calling on artists around the world to animate segments of a short film he is directing and producing, in an initiative dubbed Mass Animation, backed by …

LOS ANGELES, November 18: Tom Rogers, the president and CEO of TiVo, will deliver the NATPE 2009 Newsmakers Address on January 28 at 9 a.m. at the association's annual conference in Las Vegas. His speech, entitled "Avoiding the Demise of …

SINGAPORE, November 18: SPE Networks—Asia has named three new executives to its head office in Singapore, including Kim Sang-Im taking up the newly created position of director for Korea and new media. Kim joined SPE Networks—Asia in September and already …

WINNIPEG, November 18: Peter Viner is coming out of retirement to take up the post of interim president of Canwest Global Communications' broadcasting division, replacing Kathy Dore. In August, Dore announced her intention to leave the company when her contract …

MUNICH, November 18: Michael Bütow, the senior VP of international production for ProSiebenSat.1, has been tapped to lead the group’s efforts in producing German productions and co-productions outside of Germany. Bütow will be responsible for both fiction and non-fiction programming …

NEW YORK, November 18: Entrepreneur Mark Cuban, the cofounder of HDTV and the owner of the Dallas Mavericks basketball team, has been charged with insider trading by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). According to published reports, the SEC alleges …

MUNICH, November 17: Telepool signed a number of deals at AFM, including sales from its catalogue of family entertainment films. The feature Lilly the Witch: The Dragon and the Magic Book was sold to various countries in South America as …