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LONDON, April 8: BSkyB has made two new appointments for its board, with Andrew Griffith named chief financial officer and Danny Rimer as an independent non-executive director, effective immediately. Griffith was previously BSkyB’s director of group finance, M&A and investor …

CANNES, April 8: Rai Due, the youth-focused channel of Italy’s state broadcaster, has snapped up two British drama series, Life on Mars and Primeval, from BBC Worldwide. Rai Due took on the first two seasons of both dramas, which have …

MIAMI, April 8: Jacqueline Hernandez has been appointed the COO of NBC Universal-owned Hispanic broadcaster Telemundo Communications Group, based in New York. In the newly created position, Hernandez assumes responsibility for leading and unifying all sales, marketing and domestic growth …

CANNES, April 8: A&E Television Networks (AETN) and ZDF Enterprises have extended their current multifaceted programming and co-production deal for three years. The terms call for ZDF Enterprises to acquire non-fiction programming from AETN’s History catalogue for ZDF’s history-oriented programming …

LONDON, April 8: Fireworks International has made a number of appointments in an expansion of its sales operations in Toronto and London, including adding two new sales directors for its factual catalogue. Smiljka Baljozovic and Kathryn Kozanczyn join Fireworks’ Toronto-based …

CANNES, April 8: Disney-ABC International Television has licensed its Emmy Award-winning format The Amazing Race to Reshet in Israel, for a local version to be produced across Asia later this year. The new version will see contestants from Israel divided …

BURBANK/HONG KONG, April 8: Anna Woo has been promoted to the role of VP of business operations and finance for Disney Channel and Disney-ABC International Television for the Asia Pacific, based in Hong Kong. In her new role, Woo is …

LONDON, April 8: BBC Arabic, the British pubcaster’s new Arabic-language news channel, has expanded its distribution in the United Arab Emirates through a new deal with the cable TV platform E Vision. BBC Arabic is now available via Channel 41 …

CANNES, April 8: The Media Development Authority of Singapore (MDA) is aligning with Canal France International (CFI) for the launch of the France-Singapore Cross-Platform Programme Challenge to promote new multiplatform content collaboration. Supported by CFI and the MDA, in partnership …

CANNES, April 8: The Internet TV platform Brightcove has secured several distribution partnerships to syndicate content on Bebo, Meebo, RockYou, Slide and Veoh. The partnerships will make the ad-supported third-party content distributed through Brightcove available for viewing on Bebo channels, …