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MUNICH, September 10: Beat Your Host!, which just premiered in Sweden with a 39.5-percent market share, is headed to France in a format deal between SevenOne International and TF1. The market-leading French broadcaster is slated to air its own version …

MEXICO CITY, September 10: World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) and Televisa have struck a deal that will see WWE RAW available on Galavision Canal 9 in Mexico. WWE RAW will air on Sunday afternoons beginning October 5, available to Galavision Canal …

LONDON, September 10: Former ITV chief Charles Allen has joined Virgin Media’s board of directors, as has U.S. cable veteran John Rigsby. Allen was in the news earlier this week when Goldman Sachs Capital Partners tapped him as an advisor, …

SAN FRANCISCO, September 10: Verizon Wireless has ramped up the content offerings on its V CAST mobile service, including making available full-length TV episodes from MTV Networks and NBC Universal. The MTV Networks deal includes a broad selection of titles …

PORT WASHINGTON, September 10: Revenues from toy sales worldwide hit some $72 billion in 2007, the NPD Group has revealed, with a projection of $86.3 billion by 2010. The strong growth estimates come amid a slowdown in the U.S. economy …

LONDON/SYDNEY, September 10: FremantleMedia has picked up a 19.99-percent equity stake in the Australian producer and distributor Beyond International for an undisclosed sum. Beyond, led by managing director Mikael Borglund, has built up a significant business in North America, with …

NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO, September 10: Programming from the NBC Universal bouquet of networks has returned to the iTunes Store with a flexible pricing model in which consumers can opt to pay a higher price for content in high definition. NBC …

PORT WASHINGTON, September 9: A new study from The NPD Group reveals that teens and young adults are not the only ones consuming digital media, noting that 61 percent of Internet users in the 44-to-61 demo had visited streaming or …

BEVERLY HILLS/HONG KONG/MUMBAI, September 9: Twentieth Century Fox and STAR have aligned to form Fox STAR Studios, which will produce world-class local-language films in Asia for worldwide distribution. The joint venture will make its first foray in India, with further …

NEW YORK/MOUNTAIN VIEW, September 9: NBC Universal has entered into a multiyear partnership that sees it working with Google to attract more non-traditional advertisers to its portfolio of assets, while also selling cable ad time through the Google TV Ads …