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NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO, May 15: CBS Corporation is further expanding its new-media business, reaching a deal to acquire CNET Networks for $1.8 billion, in a deal that will make it one of the ten most popular Internet companies in the …

LOS ANGELES, May 15: PBS KIDS Sprout has secured the U.S. broadcast rights to the CGI-animated preschool series Dive Olly Dive! from Taffy Entertainment. The show is set to debut June 7 in Sprout’s original weekend morning block, The Let’s …

LONDON, May 15: ITV plc, which today announced the acquisition of Scandinavian producer Silverback, has released its first quarter results, with group revenues up 3 percent to £492 million, led by gains in its global content division. Broadcasting revenues at …

LONDON, May 15: ALL3MEDIA’s positive-parenting format I Want My Mummy has been renewed by CTC in Russia, bringing the total number of episodes produced around the world to more than 100. Other networks to air the format are Italy’s SkyVivo, …

BURBANK, May 15: FOX has announced plans to air a two-hour prequel for 24 ahead of the seventh-season launch, which was disrupted this year as a result of the writers’ strike. Season seven of 24 was due to launch in …

LONDON, May 15: National Geographic Television International (NGTI) has secured broadcast deals with RTP in Portugal and La Sexta in Spain for a range of its factual programming, spanning the wildlife, science and history genres. RTP has acquired a package …

NEW YORK, May 15: At a presentation in New York City, U.S. Hispanic broadcasting giant Univision unveiled its 2008-09 programming slate and touted its 360-degree marketing solutions for advertisers. “This year’s Upfront is not about marketing to Hispanics, but about …

LOS ANGELES, May 15: Mena Suvari and Golden Globe-winner Matthew Modine are set to star in the new Lifetime original movie tentatively titled Sex & Lies in Sin City, based on the true story of the death of a wealthy …

NEW YORK/LOS ANGELES, May 15: CBS has partnered with EQAL, founded by the creators of the hit online series lonelygirl15 and KateModern, to create and produce multiplatform television, online and mobile entertainment for existing and future CBS TV shows. The …

LONDON, May 15: BKN International will deliver two new films later this spring that are based on its animated kids’ properties Zorro: Generation Z and Dork Hunters from Outer Space. The two new films are Zorro and Scarlet Whip: Revealed! …