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LONDON, August 8: An impairment charge of £366.2 million on its mobile business has led to Virgin Media posting a second quarter operating loss of £333.1 million, as compared with the year ago’s profit of £3 million. Revenues, meanwhile, were …

BEIJING, August 8: NBC Olympics has surpassed $1 billion in advertising for the Beijing Olympic Games, which kick off today and run through August 24. Sales were boosted by NBC Universal’s prime-time coverage of the U.S. Olympics Trials for swimming, …

LONDON, August 8: Shorts International’s The Sci Fi Collection of Shorts is now available on the iTunes Stores in the U.S., the U.K. and Canada, featuring 21 titles ranging from drama to thrillers to animation. The features include Eli, a …

BURBANK, August 8: Production has begun on the live-action original series Aaron Stone for premiere in February, which will coincide with the launch of the newly re-branded kids’ entertainment channel Disney XD. The single-camera production, filmed in high definition in …

NEW YORK, August 8: Sundance Channel has greenlit production on Eco-Trip: The Real Cost of Living, an eight-part series hosted by eco-adventurer David de Rothschild. Slated to premiere in 2009, each half-hour episode will trace the origins and environmental impact …

NEW YORK, August 8: SCI FI Channel will air the final ten episodes of Battlestar Galactica in 2009, followed by a two-hour special that portrays the events before the series begins. Directed by series star Edward James Olmos and written …

LONDON, August 7: BBC Motion Gallery, the archive sales arm of BBC Worldwide, has signed a deal to add footage from the International Tennis Federation (ITF) to its library of some 70,000 hours of BBC Sports content. The five-year, global …

LONDON, August 7: ALL3MEDIA International has inked a first-look deal with British independent doc producer Gecko Productions. Best known for its human-interest documentaries and doc series, U.K. indie Gecko Productions was launched in October 2006 by Vivian McGrath, the former …

LOS ANGELES, August 7: Target Entertainment’s Glamour’s 50 Best Dressed 2008, a countdown of the most stylish women of the year and their best outfits, will debut on The Style Network in the U.S. on August 9, airing in a …

MIAMI, August 7: Next week in Beijing, the Cisneros Group of Companies is set to enter into a strategic media partnership with Chinese broadcasting behemoth CCTV. The deal, to be signed August 11, will see both companies pooling their resources …