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MIAMI, November 17: Telemundo will unveil its newly refreshed website on January 1, following a deal closed with MSN that includes distribution of the new Telemundo.com through MSN Latino and other international MSN portals, as well as use of MSN …

LOS ANGELES, November 17: IM Global and Platinum Studios are teaming up to develop a live-action TV series based on the comic book Hero By Night, created by DJ Coffman. IM Global will handle the worldwide distribution for the project, …

MUNICH, November 17: sportsman media group has closed a deal that sees Lufthansa airlines providing highlights from the German Bundesliga for the current match day on all its intercontinental flights. The program, which runs about 15 minutes in length, will …

MAINZ, November 17: ZDF.archive has been appointed as the exclusive agent to distribute the British Movietone newsreel footage archive in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. British Movietone's archives date back to 1929 and contain newsreel footage from a handful of major …

BURBANK, November 17: NBC has signed actress and singer Hilary Duff to a one-year exclusive talent and development deal to star in her own series as well as guest-star or appear in multiple story lines in various current NBC series. …

LONDON, November 17: Customers of the BT Vision digital TV service will soon have access to a raft of on-demand content from ITV. BT Vision's TV Replay catch-up service, beginning next month, will deliver episodes of Coronation Street, Emmerdale, X …

SINGAPORE, November 17: ESPN STAR Sports (ESS) has renewed a multi-year exclusive agreement for multiplatform rights to the UEFA Champions League for Malaysia and Brunei, and secured English-language pay-TV rights for the UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League for …

UNIVERSAL CITY, November 17: From executive producers Nigel Lythgoe and Simon Fuller, who are behind such hits as American Idol and So You Think You Can Dance, comes Superstar Dancers of the World (working title), which is slated for broadcast …

MUNICH, November 17: ProSiebenSat.1 Group has landed the exclusive German free-TV rights to the upcoming Star Trek and Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen, among other features, as part of an extended output deal with Paramount Pictures. The deal also …

HONG KONG, November 17: For the 1,700-plus attendees of the CASBAA Convention in Hong Kong, a key theme was the continued growth of Asia's pay-TV market in the face of the global economic downturn. The event, organized by the Cable …