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CAMBRIDGE, November 6: Growth in the IPTV pay-TV market will come at the expense of cable TV operators, according to Pyramid Research, which predicts IPTV's share of the market will rise to 14 percent in 2013 from 3 percent today. …

TORONTO, November 6: Julie Sultan has been upped to the newly created role of president of international motion picture acquisitions and sales for Peace Arch Entertainment, and has made a number of promotions within her new team. Sultan joined Peace …

PARIS/NEW YORK, November 6: Reed MIDEM and the International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences have opened the call for entries for the fourth International Digital Emmy Awards at MIPTV, which will take place from March 30 to April 3. …

LONDON, November 6: Diane Rankin is joining Cineflix International as its head of acquisitions, tasked with increasing the company's library of indie titles and negotiating representation agreements with leading producers and program-makers. Rankin joins Cineflix from Brunico Communications, where she …

ATLANTA, November 6: Coverage of the U.S. presidential election on Tuesday night was viewed by more than 71.5 million people, with ABC taking the lead in prime time (8 p.m. to 11 p.m. EST) with 13.1 million viewers. CNN came …

LONDON, November 6: BT Vision in the U.K. has added offerings from BabyTV to its range of on-demand programming. BabyTV On-Demand features edited half-hour segments that are categorized into themes such as first concepts, imagination and creativity, nature and animals, …

LUXEMBOURG, November 6: In the midst of a number of media companies reporting weaker results, the RTL Group's financials for the first nine months show it holding steady, with revenues of 4.05 billion euros and an improved operating profit of …

LONDON, November 6: African pay-TV network GTV is launching Discovery World on its service on November 10. Discovery World will kick off on GTV with the premiere of the documentary Expedition Alaska, which looks at the wildlife of the Arctic …

NEW YORK, November 6: A weakened U.S. ad market, a smaller theatrical release slate and a write-down of its investment in German pay-TV platform Premiere were all cited by News Corporation as factors in the 29.6-percent first-quarter profit fall to …

LONDON, November 6: Killer Couples, a 4×1-hour series from British indie True North Productions that looks at the relationship between deadly partners in crime, has joined Passion Distribution's catalogue. In each episode, international best-selling crime novelist Mark Billingham looks at …