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NEW YORK, December 4: A new Nielsen study indicates that younger adult viewers are two-and-a-half times more likely than older viewers to proactively use technology such as DVRs, VOD, the Internet and MP3 players to catch up on television shows …

BEIJING, December 4: National Geographic Digital Motion has scored the rights to never-before-seen archival footage from China in a first-time agreement with China Intercontinental Communications Centre (CICC), the media production arm of China’s State Council Information Office. The deal grants …

LONDON, December 4: A co-production with HBO that retells the last week in the life of Jesus Christ is one of the key titles on BBC One’s winter schedule, unveiled today by acting controller, Roly Keating. The Passion, produced in …

SAN JOSE, December 4: Gaia Online, a social networking site for teens, has shored up content deals with Sony Pictures Television and Warner Bros. to bring a range of titles to its virtual theater, the Gaia Cinema. The more than …

SAN FRANCISCO, December 4: According to the results of a mobile usage study conducted by The Nielsen Company, 35 percent of tweens in the U.S. own a mobile phone, with many using those devices at home to access the Internet, …

NORTH HOLLYWOOD/EVANSTON, December 4: The Walt Disney Internet Group has boosted its portfolio of family-targeted web properties with the acquisition of iParenting Media, operator of an online network of more than 40 sites geared towards parents. Disney Online’s family-targeted web …

NEW YORK, December 4: Entertainment studio and new-media platform My Damn Channel has inked deals with hip-hop recording artist Coolio, comedian A.D. Miles and sketch comedy writer Steve Kerper for the rollout of new online video channels and the creation …

MEXICO CITY, December 4: The international content distribution arm of Mexico’s Grupo Televisa is changing its name, effective January 1, 2008, to Televisa Internacional. As of the beginning of next year, Televisa Estudios will be known again as Televisa Internacional. …

HALIFAX, December 4: DHX Media, the parent company of DECODE Enterprises, has acquired Vancouver-based animation house Studio B Productions for an undisclosed sum. DHX Media is the parent company of distributor DECODE Enterprises and production houses DECODE Entertainment and Halifax …

LONDON, December 4: BKN New Media SL, the Spanish subsidiary of BKN International, has announced a 1.3 million euros agreement with Italy’s Cartoon One for the co-production Stone Age. As part of the deal, Cartoon One paid 1.3 million euros …