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NEW YORK, January 29: Frances Berwick has been named to the newly created position of general manager of Bravo Media, with expanded responsibilities to include the creative vision and direction for the American cable network. Berwick previously held the post …

LAS VEGAS, January 29: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios is at NATPE this week offering up the 90s’ kids’ competition series Gladiators 2000, featuring a young Ryan Seacrest, to the U.S. syndication market, following the success of American Gladiators on NBC. Gladiators 2000 …

SYDNEY, January 29: The Australian Broadcasting Corporation has appointed Barbara Uecker as the head of programming and acquisitions, and Carla de Jong as the commissioning and development editor. Uecker most recently served as the head of family, education and nature …

LOS ANGELES, January 29: CBS has ordered two new editions of Survivor, ahead of the February 7 premiere of Survivor: Micronesia, the series’ 16th edition. The new editions, 17 and 18, are slated for broadcast during the 2008-2009 season, and …

LAS VEGAS, January 29: Jeff Zucker, the president and CEO of NBC Universal, delivered the opening keynote as NATPE kicked off in Las Vegas today, calling for a “reengineering of our business from top to bottom.” Beginning his address, Zucker …

NEW YORK, January 29: Verizon has announced that its fiber-optic television service, FiOS TV, has surpassed one million customers since its launch in September 2005, making it the tenth-largest cable provider in the U.S. According to company figures, 2007 was …

LOS ANGELES, January 29: Twentieth Century Fox Television Distribution has inked a multi-year agreement with Allcaro Entertainment to air its stable of feature films on Canadian pay-TV network Super Channel. Fox titles such as Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver …

SANTA MONICA, January 29: Lionsgate has entered into a three-year programming deal with Viasat Broadcasting covering series, mini-series and TV movies for broadcast in Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Slovenia, including the Golden Globe-winning Mad Men. The deal covers at least …

MUNICH/LONDON, January 28: Sony Pictures Television International (SPTI) and ProSiebenSat.1 Group have signed a multi-year volume deal for current and library feature films and TV shows for the broadcasting group’s free-to-air channels in Germany, including The Tudors. The deal includes …

DUBLIN, January 29: RTE will be utilizing some creative scheduling with its stockpile of American dramas to get it through the next few months, according to Dermot Horan, the Irish broadcaster’s director of broadcast and acquisitions. “We’re lucky in a …