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LONDON, August 18: BBC Worldwide has launched a 24/7 channel on YouTube for its hit Top Gear franchise, featuring highlights from the show as well as celebrity interviews. The channel will also feature content from the presenters' other shows, including …

NEW YORK, August 18: According to a new survey from the Pew Research Center, fewer Americans are reading newspapers and instead getting their news online, while television still holds strong as the leading source for news in the U.S. Pew …

NEW YORK, August 18: This September, World Screen and TV Latina will launch daily video news bulletins, in English and Spanish, in partnership with Reed MIDEM, the organizer of the international content industry’s biggest annual events, MIPTV and MIPCOM. Featured …

NEW YORK, August 18: Robert Traub will replace Pamela Ferris Muller as the VP of licensing for the Americas for Chorion. Traub will be responsible for all aspects of licensing and merchandising campaigns for Chorion’s properties in the U.S., Canada …

STOCKHOLM, August 18: Manfred Aronsson has been named the new CEO of TV3 and TV6 Sweden, replacing Hasse Breitholtz, who regains his position as the executive VP of the Modern Times Group (MTG). Aronsson also retains his position as the …

PARIS/AMSTERDAM, August 18: Mezzo, a European classical music and jazz channel, will launch a Dutch service in December to be available to all distributing partners in the Netherlands and Flanders. The Dutch channel will be the first fully localized version …

OTTAWA, August 15: Poland’s HAGI has licensed 39 half-hour episodes of the animated series The Secret World of Benjamin Bear from Amberwood Entertainment for various additional European territories. A fourth season of the series was recently commissioned by Canada’s Playhouse …

LONDON, August 15: Chorion has signed a worldwide licensing agreement with Slitherine Strategies to develop games based on Scholastic’s Horrible Histories for platforms such as PCs and Nintendo’s DS and Wii. The deal, brokered by Chorion’s new-media consultants, AT Brands, …

LOS ANGELES, August 15: Fox Reality Channel has named ShineReveille International as its distribution partner to license the format and finished episodes of its original series Solitary, which will return to the network for a third season. Solitary 3.0 is …

MOUNTAIN VIEW, August 15: TVU Networks, a provider of live Internet TV, has added a Telemundo channel dedicated to the hit series Decisiones to its lineup, available worldwide outside of the U.S. and Mexico. An original Telemundo production, Decisiones features …