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NEW YORK, July 15: Showtime Networks has entered into an exclusive seven-year film distribution agreement with The Weinstein Company (TWC) for up to 95 films, including Nine, Inglorious Bastards and Scream 4. The new output deal is effective with TWC’s …

TORONTO, July 15: Michael A. McLaughlin is set to become a part owner of High Fidelity HDTV, an independent Canadian broadcaster with a suite of four channels. As the head of sales and sponsorship, McLaughlin also will serve as the …

NEW YORK, July 15: Google will be able to strip user details from the YouTube visitor data that it has been compelled to provide Viacom as part of a $1-billion copyright infringement suit. Earlier this month, a U.S. court ruled …

LOS ANGELES/ALEXANDRIA, July 15: The two-part four-hour documentary Latin Music USA is set to air in January 2009 on PBS during a multimedia event celebrating the influence of Latin American roots on American music. The program, produced by WGBH and …

BURBANK, July 15: A total of 815 minutes of full-length episodes were viewed on ABC.com’s video player in May, a 53-percent rise on April and a 110-percent increase on the year-ago period. Drivers for the online gains were season finales …

HARRINGTON PARK, July 15: Janson Media has released Quest for Kaitiakitanga, the second episode in the series Richard Bangs Adventures with Purpose, to international television, VOD and DVD/video markets. In this episode, Richard Bangs visits New Zealand as he travels …

NEW YORK, July 15: News Corporation has sold eight owned-and-operated FOX-affiliated TV stations to Oak Hill Capital Partners for about $1.1 billion. The deal covers stations in Denver, Salt Lake City, St. Louis, Birmingham, Kansas City, Greensboro, Milwaukee and Cleveland. …

NEW YORK, July 15: Don Most and Anson Williams, who starred as Ralph and Potsie, respectively, in the long-running sitcom Happy Days, have reunited to produce a new series, Take 2, which brings together iconic duos of the past and …

LOS ANGELES, July 15: Microsoft has inked an exclusive deal with Netflix that will allow access to more than 10,000 movies and TV episodes from the Xbox 360 gaming console. Xbox 360 will be the only game system that allows …

LOS ANGELES/TORONTO, July 15: Canadian animation network TELETOON has given Blueprint Entertainment the go-ahead for 26 half-hour episodes of the live-action tween comedy Go-Girl. Go-Girl tells the story of 15-year-old Becky Smith being elected as her town’s mayor after completing …