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LOS ANGELES, June 18: DreamWorks SKG is in early negotiations for a joint venture with a division of India’s Reliance ADA Group as Steven Spielberg and David Geffen look to exit their alliance with Paramount Pictures, according to published reports. …

LOS ANGELES, June 18: Generate, a youth-targeted multiplatform entertainment studio headed up by ex-The WB chief Jordan Levin, has opened its New York office, and has made two new executive appointments to its sales and branded-entertainment teams. Peggy Mansfield has …

MUNICH, June 18: Guillaume de Posch, the CEO of the ProSiebenSat.1 Group, will step down from his post “at his own request” at the end of this year. De Posch has been at the helm of the German-based company for …

NEW YORK, June 18: Nickelodeon Kids and Family Group has formed a new division for games and another for virtual worlds, naming Dave Williams and Kyra Reppen to lead them, respectively. Williams will serve as the senior VP and general …

BUDAPEST, June 18: DISCOP kicked off in Budapest today with some 1,750 attendees, up from the 1,522 who attended last year, led by a boom in thematic channels across the Central and Eastern European region, according to the event’s general …

STOCKHOLM, June 18: film2home.com, an electronic-sell-through and VOD movie portal based in the Nordic region, has launched a new peer-to-peer file-sharing service, film2home P2P, which is based on bittorrent technology. With the rollout of this new service, film2home aims to …

NEW YORK, June 18: CBS is offering a sneak peek at the new website for the daily syndicated news show The Insider, which will enable users to interact with each other as well as with the content itself. Located at …

KUALA KUMPUR, June 18: The Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU) has launched a new award to honor reporting on HIV/AIDS in the Asia-Pacific region. The ABU Prize for HIV/AIDS Programs is open to all ABU member organizations. Entrants may submit up …

MUNICH, June 18: Studio100 Media has reached a five-year broadcast agreement with the pan-Arabian Al Jazeera Children’s Channel (JCC) for its CGI-animated and live-action preschool series Bumba The Clown. Studio100 Media has granted JCC the exclusive free-TV and pay-TV rights …

NEW YORK/BUDAPEST, June 18: Czech TV is among several Central and Eastern European broadcasters that have picked up content from AETN International, the distributor announced as DISCOP opened in Budapest today. Czech TV picked up a package that includes the …