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LOS ANGELES, June 9: Adness Entertainment has licensed Kamen Rider Dragon Knight to 4Kids Entertainment to air in the U.S. on its Saturday morning kids’ block on The CW, and has named Bandai America as the master toy licensee for …

SÃO PAULO, June 9: Globo TV International has renewed a volume agreement to supply up to a 1,000 hours of programming per year to Ecuadorian broadcaster Ecuavisa until 2011, a 10-percent volume increase on the current agreement between the two …

LONDON, June 9: After extensive focus-group research, HIT Entertainment has announced plans to produce two of its signature brands, Thomas & Friends and Bob the Builder, in CGI. Christopher Skala, executive producer and senior VP of production and programming at …

TORONTO, June 9: JumpTV, a Canadian-based online streaming broadcaster of sports and international television, has reached an agreement to merge with NeuLion, a New York-based provider of web-based IPTV services to customers such as the National Hockey League and the …

LONDON, June 9: FIVER has secured the rights to two celebrity-based observational reality series from E! in the U.S.: Living Lohan and Denise Richards: It’s Complicated. Living Lohan, from E! Entertainment Television, stars celebrity mom and manager Dina Lohan as …

TORONTO/BANFF, June 9: Shaftesbury Films has acquired Smokebomb Entertainment, a developer of original multiplatform digital content, with Smokebomb’s executive producers, Daniel Dales and Jarrett Sherman, heading up the newly created digital-media division. Smokebomb’s name remains intact and the company will …

AMSTERDAM/LONDON, June 9: Jetix Europe has inked an agreement with an affiliate of its majority shareholder, The Walt Disney Company, for the distribution of its channels and digital content across Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), effective July 1. …

LONDON, June 6: Wadah Khanfar, the director general of Al Jazeera Network, will give the Worldview Address at this year’s MediaGuardian Edinburgh International Television Festival (MGEITF), which takes place from August 22 to 24. In his Worldview Address, which offers …

SANTA CLARA/NEW YORK, June 6: Macrovision Solutions Corporation announced today that News Corporation has sold off its 19-percent stake in the company, which recently merged with Gemstar-TV Guide International. The move marks the end of a saga that stretches back …

HOLLYWOOD, June 6: Jorge Camara was re-elected to a sixth term as the president of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) for the 2008-2009 year. A member of the association for 43 years, Camara covers entertainment (print and television), for …