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LOS ANGELES, August 4: Fox International Channels (FIC) and The Wall Street Journal Digital Network have secured a deal to jointly promote and sell The Wall Street Journal Americas, the company’s Spanish- and Portuguese-language online section that focuses on Latin …

TOKYO, August 4: The online video platform Brightcove has named a general manager for its Japanese subsidiary, as well as announced its first customer in this lucrative Asian market, inking a deal to power local web coverage of this year’s …

MUNICH, August 4: Starting October 4, Fox International Channels’ (FIC) FOX brand will be available on Premiere in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, with hit series such as Lost, Entourage and The Wire broadcast without commercials in both German-language and original …

STOCKHOLM, August 4: TV7, Broadcast Management Sweden’s (BMS) entertainment channel launched in 2006, has been acquired by NonStop Television, which plans to relaunch the network this fall across Scandinavia. NonStop has picked up 100 percent of the company from BMS, …

LAUSANNE, August 4: The International Olympic Committee (IOC) will launch an online channel on YouTube to broadcast clips from the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games in 77 territories across Africa, Asia and the Middle East. The Olympic Broadcasting Service (OBS)—a subsidiary …

HONG KONG, August 4: Barry Diller, the chairman and CEO of IAC/InterActiveCorp., has been added to the keynote lineup at this year’s Cable & Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (CASBAA) conference. Additional headlining speakers include Anne Sweeney, the president of …

LONDON, August 1: Former Sparrowhawk Media executive Neil Ross Russell is taking over from Gill Pritchard as the new managing director for children’s at BBC Worldwide, effective August 11. Russell will be responsible for the cross-media, international exploitation across BBC …

LONDON/LOS ANGELES, August 1: ITV, through its U.S.-based production arm, Granada America, has acquired a 10-percent interest in Electric Farm Entertainment, the digital studio founded by Stan Rogow, Brent Friedman and Jeff Sagansky. Electric Farm is at work on a …

NEW YORK, August 1: ABI Research has concluded that there is “widespread reluctance” on the part of consumers to purchase a Blu-ray DVD player in the near future. The research firm surveyed 1,000 respondents and found that more than half …

HONG KONG, August 1: Beijing Netmovie has inked a deal to distribute 662 Shaw Brothers films and 170 hours of original TV dramas from Celestial Pictures through a slew of Internet cafés in China. Netmovie has licensed the rights to …