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VANCOUVER, March 17: Nerd Corps Entertainment’s 3-D animated series Storm Hawks has been picked up by the U.K.-based free-to-air broadcaster GMTV. The 52×30-minute series will launch mid-March, starting with back-to-back episodes each weekday morning on GMTV’s Action Stations block and …

LONDON, March 17: News Corporation has appointed Matthew Anderson as the group director of strategy and corporate affairs for Europe and Asia, effective April 15. In his new role, Anderson will pursue a wide remit supporting the operations of the …

NEW YORK, March 17: Lifetime Networks has named OMD’s managing director, Debbie Richman, to the position of executive VP of ad sales. Beginning April 1, Richman will oversee all ad sales for Lifetime Television, Lifetime Movie Network, Lifetime Real Women …

LONDON, March 17: Channel 4 International (C4i) has bulked up its sales and acquisitions teams with several new hires and the promotion of Patrick Roberts to VP of international sales. Roberts will be responsible for sales to the U.S. and …

NEW YORK/MEXICO CITY, March 17: Grupo Televisa has reached an exclusive agreement to distribute content from NBC Universal's Telemundo across multiple platforms in Mexico, including broadcast TV, pay TV and emerging digital platforms. Beginning in April, Televisa's Channel 9 will …

WILMINGTON, March 14: Barry Diller, the chief executive of IAC/InterActiveCorp, took the witness stand in a Delaware court yesterday, defending his plan to break up the company. Diller is at odds with longtime business partner John Malone, the chairman of …

PARIS, March 14: Twenty-seven projects for interactive and multiplatform content have been chosen as finalists for the third international Content 360 festival competition, part of the 45th MIPTV featuring MILIA, which takes place in Cannes from April 7 to 11. …

BURBANK, March 14: Warner Bros. Pictures announced that the screen adaptation of J.K. Rowling's final book in the hit series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, will be released in two parts. The first part of Harry Potter and the …

CULVER CITY, March 14: After serving as the president of the digital division at Sony Pictures Entertainment for nearly ten years, Yair Landau is planning to leave the studio in April. Landau, who has been with Sony Pictures for 17 …

RESTON, March 14: Digital research firm comScore’s most recent Video Metrix report has revealed that Google’s video-sharing site YouTube accounted for one-third of the 9.8 billion videos viewed online in the U.S. during January. The firm also noted that the …