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HARRINGTON PARK, April 21: The new lifestyle travel series Travel With Kids, which shares tips and tricks for traveling on family vacations, is now available for the first time to television, VOD, DVD/video and new-media markets worldwide through Janson Media. …

LONDON, April 21: PPC Enterprises has licensed the pan-European merchandising rights for Pinky & Perky, a CGI children’s comedy series that is a modern update of a classic brand, to toy manufacturer Martin Yaffe. Martin Yaffe will produce a series …

LYON, April 21: The international European news network EuroNews is airing two English-language news blocks to more than 15 million households in the U.S. via independent non-commercial broadcaster MHz Worldview. The 30-minute newscasts are featured on MHz Worldview at 8:30 …

PARAMUS, April 21: The Italian American Network (I A Net), a new ad-supported multiplatform media company, has been created to provide Americans with a daily window into the Italian and Italian-American experience. The new company has just launched its English-language …

LONDON, April 21: ITV’s stock price peaked at 70.2 pence today, rising some 9.7 percent during the day, following a weekend report that the RTL Group and Haim Saban are eyeing the acquisition of a stake in the commercial broadcaster. …

LONDON, April 21: Nuts TV will broadcast the 2008 PDC U.S. Open on May 17-18 as part of a package of darts programming on the male-skewing channel. In May, Nuts TV’s coverage will focus on live darts at the Mohegan …

BOSTON, April 18: A new report from Strategy Analytics says that total spending on mobile media services by consumers and advertisers will jump from nearly $47 billion in 2007 to more than $102 billion by 2012, driven by web access, …

UNIVERSAL CITY/LONDON, April 18: Universal Pictures and British Telecommunications have secured an agreement to launch the PictureBox subscription on-demand service on BT Vision in the U.K. on May 5. The PictureBox service provides a selection of current and library feature …

TORONTO, April 18: Global Television and NBC have struck a deal with Howie Mandel, host of the game show Deal or No Deal, for an unscripted comedy series tentatively titled Howie Do It, which he will star in and produce, …

RIO DE JANEIRO, April 18: TV Globo has closed a deal with IPTV operator Clix SmarTV to distribute its premium international channel in Portugal. Through the month of April, Clix SmarTV subscribers will have free access to the channel. TV …