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STAMFORD, January 25: Televersemedia is set to produce ESPN: The Magazine at 10, a one-hour high-definition special commemorating the magazine’s tenth anniversary. The show will premiere February 17 at 8 p.m. on ESPN’s main network and will examine the last …

LONDON, January 25: A new study from WPP’s GroupM says that global advertising spending in measured media will increase 6.8 percent to $479 billion in 2008, up from an estimated 6-percent gain in 2007. The study, This Year, Next Year, …

LOS ANGELES, January 25: Moriah Films, the documentary film unit of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, has begun production on its tenth documentary feature, Refugees and Bystanders, centered on Holocaust survivors. The documentary will trace the actions and personalities of Holocaust …

LOS ANGELES, January 25: Two more independent studios, Lionsgate and Marvel Entertainment, have entered into interim agreements with the Writers Guild of America, following similar moves by United Artists, Worldwide Pants and Spyglass Entertainment, among others. Other outfits that are …

HONG KONG, January 25: AXN is gearing up for a third season of the original reality competition series The Amazing Race Asia, the pan-regional version of the hit Emmy-winning CBS show. The Amazing Race Asia 3 will once again send …

MUNICH, January 25: Rüdiger Böss, the senior VP of group programming acquisitions at ProSiebenSat.1 Group, will be looking to completed-run U.S. series and reruns to fill any possible schedule gaps. The German broadcasting group has the rights to a number …

LOS ANGELES, January 25: Lifetime Networks has named Scott Garner as its new senior VP of planning, scheduling and acquisitions, effective immediately. Based in Los Angeles, Garner will oversee all scheduling for Lifetime Television and Lifetime Movie Network, as well …

FOSTER CITY, January 25: In its first collaboration with a television content provider, Sony Computer Entertainment America (SCEA) has made MTV programming available on Universal Media Discs (UMDs), the data cartridges used by the handheld PlayStation Portable (PSP) device. The …

UNIVERSAL CITY, January 25: Allan Navarrete has been named VP, sales liaison for Latin America at NBC Universal International Television Distribution. Navarrete will oversee the free, pay and basic cable television efforts of NBC Universal programming throughout Latin America, Spain …

NEW YORK, January 25: The Nielsen Company has announced the commercial launch of a web-based measurement service that aggregates and anonymously reports on VOD usage based on real-time transactions collected from set-top boxes, with Comcast coming aboard as the first …