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DOHA, December 6: The Media Development Authority has granted Al Jazeera English, the Middle East-based English-language news and current affairs channel, permission to broadcast in Singapore. The Media Development Authority approved SingTel's application for Al Jazeera English early this month, …

PARK RIDGE/NEW YORK, December 6: Nickelodeon has teamed up with car rental company The Hertz Corporation for the rollout of Nick on the Go, a portable touch-screen media player pre-loaded with more than 40 hours of Nickelodeon and Nick Jr. …

NEW YORK/LONDON, December 6: Discovery Kids Latin America has picked up new seasons of HIT Entertainment’s Barney, Bob the Builder and Thomas & Friends. Discovery Kids will air never-before-seen episodes of Barney, Bob the Builder and Thomas & Friends in …

TORONTO, December 6: 9 Story Entertainment has secured a raft of international sales for its comedy-action adventure series Futz! The first 26×3-minutes episodes of the series have been acquired by Australia’s ABC, Luk Internacional in Spain, HBO in Asia, Finland’s …

TORONTO, December 6: Playhouse Disney in Canada will premiere the new 26-episode half-hour preschool series Bunnytown on January 13, 2008, at 7:30 a.m. The series will air subsequently on Saturdays and Sundays at 7:30 a.m., 11:30 a.m. and 5 p.m. …

BELFAST, December 6: Green Inc. Film and Television has been commissioned to deliver a second extended season of the music-entertainment series Deis Roc to Irish broadcaster TG4. Hosted by TG4’s Síle Ní Bhraonáin, Deis Roc is an eleven-week battle-of-the-bands style …

CHICAGO, December 6: The first and second seasons of Towers Productions’ improv comedy TV series Sports Action Team will be available on Apple’s iTunes Store and the digital video download service Amazon Unbox, beginning December 11. Thirty-two episodes in total …

LOS ANGELES, December 5: News Corporation-owned Fox Entertainment Group (FEG) has acquired the faith and spirituality website Beliefnet. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Beliefnet will become part of Fox Digital Media, spearheaded by president Dan Fawcett. Fox …

NEW YORK, December 5: CBS is looking to its sister cable network Showtime for content to help fill its prime-time schedule as the writers strike continues in the U.S. Speaking at the UBS Annual Global Media & Communications conference yesterday, …

LONDON, December 5: Britain’s High Court has ruled that the BBC’s director-general, Mark Thompson, cannot be sued for blasphemy over the pubcaster’s controversial Jerry Springer—The Opera in 2005. Stephen Green of the Christian Voice group had been seeking to sue …