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AMSTERDAM, September 10: At IBC today, UBC Broadband and Sling Media unveiled plans to roll the Slingbox device out to UPC Digital TV customers in the Netherlands. The Slingbox allows UPC customers to remotely control their digital Mediabox and watch …

CUPERTINO, September 10: Apple today announced that it has sold its one millionth iPhone, just 74 days after its introduction on June 29. "One million iPhones in 74 days—it took almost two years to achieve this milestone with iPod," said …

TORONTO, September 10: Jeff Sagansky, a former top executive at Paxson, CBS and Sony, has been named the co-chairman of the board of directors for Peace Arch Entertainment Group. Sagansky will serve alongside Peace Arch’s former chairman, and now co-chairman, …

SEOUL, September 10: KBS World, the international channel operated by Korean pubcaster KBS, is now available in 250 hotels in China via SINOSAT, joining just 34 other foreign channels that have been granted access to the satellite by the Chinese …

BEVERLY HILLS, September 10: Michael Eisner’s new-media studio Vuguru has secured a raft of new distribution deals with digital media platforms like MySpace and YouTube for Prom Queen: Summer Heat, the spinoff of the Emmy-nominated broadband series Prom Queen. Vuguru …

LOS ANGELES, September 10: Showtime has ordered 12 new half-hour episodes of its hit comedy series Californication, slated for premiere in summer 2008. Californication centers on novelist Hank Moody, played by David Duchovny (The X-Files), whose obsession with telling the …

SINGAPORE/HONG KONG, September 10: Disney Channel Asia’s debut of High School Musical 2 ranked as the most-watched telecast on its premiere day in Malaysia and Singapore, defeating terrestrial and pay-TV channels among the youth demographic in both markets. In Singapore, …

LONDON, September 10: Distraction has licensed the Canadian scripted comedy format Serial Frank, nominated for seven 2007 Gemini Awards, to NBC in the U.S. Originally produced by Marc Grenier from the Locomotion Group, Distraction launched Serial Frank at MIPTV in …

LONDON, September 7: HIT Entertainment will release the new sixth season of the children’s property Fireman Sam in high-definition CGI animation, with episodes currently in production until January 2009 for delivery beginning in May 2008. Since fully acquiring Fireman Sam …

LOS ANGELES, September 7: The multiplatform kids’ channel Kabillion experienced significant growth for the month of August, with a 32-percent gain in average weekly video-on-demand orders in the third quarter of this year, along with a new digital cable carriage …