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TORONTO, June 16: Peace Arch Entertainment Group has concluded ten licensing agreements in eight territories on 17 motion pictures and television series, including a broadcast deal with GloboSat/Globo for five dramas. The new licensing agreements were inked with distributors in …

LONDON, June 16: The MediaGuardian Edinburgh International Television Festival (MGEITF) has unveiled the shortlist for the seventh annual Channel of the Year awards, which will be announced on Saturday, August 23. The six channels nominated in the Best Non Terrestrial …

SEATTLE, June 16: CreateSpace, part of the Amazon.com group of companies, has reached an agreement with HBO Video to make a selection of documentaries from HBO and Cinemax available for purchase online through its DVD on Demand service. The service …

HONG KONG, June 16: Channel [V] International has signed an exclusive deal to premiere the new reality series Paris Hilton’s My New BFF, which follows the heiress as she searches for a new gal pal, shortly after its U.S. debut …

MUMBAI, June 16: Taj TV’s Ten Sports has secured the exclusive broadcast rights through 2014 to more than 450 hours of first-run content from World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) in the Indian sub-continent. WWE content presented on Ten Sports across India, …

CULVER CITY, June 16: Sony Pictures Entertainment and its online video network, Crackle, have agreed to support a set of collaborative principles that enable the growth and development of user-generated content online while respecting the intellectual property of rights owners. …

SÃO PAULO, June 16: Globo TV International has renewed its volume deal with Mozambique’s STV-Soico Televisão to provide its telenovelas, documentaries and comedy and drama series to viewers in Africa until 2011. Beginning in 2009, more than 700 hours of …

LONDON/BUDAPEST, June 16: MTV Networks International (MTVNI) will debut Comedy Central Hungary in October, with the fully localized local-language channel becoming available to 1.5 million households via cable and satellite. The channel will broadcast a mix of locally produced and …

CHICAGO/CULVER CITY, June 16: Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo Productions and Sony Pictures Television (SPT) will debut a new series centered on Dr. Mehmet C. Oz, the bestselling author, educator and surgeon who is a regular on The Oprah Winfrey Show, in …

NEW YORK, June 16: Herb Scannell is relinquishing the CEO role at Next New Networks, the online entertainment company he co-founded after serving as the president of Nickelodeon and vice chairman of MTV Networks, but will remain as the executive …