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MIAMI, June 25: From the producers of the Billboard Latin Music Awards comes Levántate, a new morning show that combines news, world entertainment and viewer interactivity, to be produced live from Telemundo’s WKAQ Studios in Puerto Rico. The two-hour live …

LONDON, June 25: According to data from the comScore Video Metrix service, 27.4 million British Internet users viewed 3.5 billion videos online in March 2008, with almost half seen on YouTube. Google sites, including YouTube, took a 48-percent share of …

PARIS, June 25: Production & Partners Multimedia (PPM) has appointed RMP as the French licensing agency for its animated series Panshel, airing on Piwi and Gulli in France. RMP will develop a licensing and merchandising program, excluding books and interactive …

LONDON, June 25: Despite a rapid take-up of high-definition television sets across Europe—with a penetration of 18 percent of the region’s 165 million TV households at the end of 2007—there is still a dearth of HD content available to watch, …

DUBLIN, June 25: A raft of new broadcasters have signed on for Monster Distributes’ animated non-dialogue series Gazoon, including NRK in Norway, Cartoon Network in Japan and TV2 in Denmark, among others. Further sales for the series include YLE in …

TORONTO/LOS ANGELES, June 25: Oasis International has signed an 11-title deal with Hallmark International for the U.K., Poland, Hungary, Turkey, Benelux and feeds in the Middle East and Russia. Included in the deal are the Lifetime/CTV movie Murder on Her …

LONDON, June 25: Channel 4 International (C4i), part of the Digital Rights Group, has sold a host of documentary programming to Belgian broadcaster VRT, as part of a continuing output deal. The package includes My Boyfriend the Sex Tourist, Teenage …

TORONTO, June 25: Family Channel in Canada has commissioned a third season of 26×11-minute episodes of the preschool series Franny’s Feet from DECODE Entertainment. The series, which follows the adventures of a little girl and her magical shoes, was recently …

LONDON, June 25: FremantleMedia Enterprises (FME), in conjunction with its production and broadcast partners, has presented the first-look lineup for Spectacle: Elvis Costello with…, a new talk/music series slated to premiere later this year. Sir Elton John, Tony Bennett, Lou …

LONDON, June 25: Turner Broadcasting in the U.K. and MySpace have sealed a deal for the male-skewing channel Nuts TV and the adult animation brand Adult Swim to have dedicated content channels on the social-networking site’s video platform, MySpaceTV. Launched …