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LONDON, June 19: BBC Worldwide has outsourced the collection of its secondary and tertiary rights revenues to Compact Collections in a four-year deal. Compact Collections will collect revenue for international cable and satellite retransmission, educational copying, public performance levies and …

LOS ANGELES/LONDON, June 19: Twentieth Century Fox Television and British commercial broadcaster ITV have inked an international programming partnership that includes the creation of local versions of select titles in each other’s libraries. A British version of Dharma and Greg …

LONDON, June 19: According to PricewaterhouseCooopers (PwC), the global entertainment and media market will be worth some $2.2 trillion in 2012, with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 6.6 percent over the next five years. A key trend going …

NEW YORK, June 19: Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia (MSLO) has named Orlando Reece as its senior VP of broadcast sales, building integrated programs for clients and leading the sales efforts for all the company’s broadcast properties. Reece comes to MSLO …

MONTREAL, June 19: Distraction is at DISCOP with a catalogue of comedy, game-show and talk-show formats, seven of which are nominated for a total of 23 Gemini Awards. The scripted comedy format All About Me, which centers on the lives …

TORONTO, June 19: Season one of the animated half-hour comedy Lil’ Bush will makes its Canadian broadcast debut on The Comedy Network on July 13 at 9:30 p.m., with season two launching on the network’s website on June 30. Lil’ …

SAN FRANCISCO, June 19: VIZ Media has licensed the North American trading-card game rights for its animated property Blue Dragon to Konami Digital Entertainment (KDE). Under the agreement, KDE will exclusively manufacture and distribute a Blue Dragon-branded trading-card game and …

MIAMI, June 19: Nickelodeon Latin America is launching a refreshed image campaign for the family-programming block Nick at Nite, complete with new promos, IDs, fillers, bumpers and classic series. The logo for Nick at Nite has been changed to orange …

NEW YORK, June 19: The N has teamed up with Reveille for a new one-hour teen reality series, The N’s Student Body, premiering July 11 at 10 p.m. with a simulcast launch on Nick at Nite. Hosted by famed athlete …

HILVERSUM, June 18: Endemol International has been commissioned by an undisclosed network in the Middle East for a local version of its obstacle-course format Wipeout. The series will be produced by Endemol Middle East at the international set for Wipeout …