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ENGLEWOOD, November 9: Third quarter profit at Liberty Global fell from $445 million to $40.4 million, on revenues of $2.26 billion, which were 39-percent up on the year-ago period. The company had 23.5 million total revenue generating units (RGUs) at …

LONDON, November 9: The FA has inked Asian broadcast deals for the FA Cup and England matches for the 2008-2012 period with ESPN Star Sports, M-League and IMG. The majority of the rights went to current partner ESPN Star Sports. …

OTTAWA, November 9: The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) is coming under fire for pulling a documentary about the Falun Gong spiritual movement from its schedule, reportedly after receiving complaints from Chinese diplomats. According to local reports, the special was pulled …

NEW YORK, November 9: 4Kids Entertainment’s net loss for the third quarter has increased from last year’s $265,000 to $4.2 million, on revenues of $12.2 million, which were down 31 percent on the year-ago period. For the nine months ended …

LONDON, November 9: Granada International has announced that the British sci-fi action TV series The Champions will be remade as a film by the Hollywood studio United Artists. Guillermo del Toro (Pan’s Labyrinth, Hell Boy, Blade II) will write, direct …

HONG KONG/BANGKOK, November 9: STAR, Thai pay-TV operator TrueVisions and multimedia group GMM Media have entered into a three-way joint venture for the music and youth entertainment network Channel [V] Thailand. STAR will hold a 49-percent stake in the joint …

LONDON, November 9: The BBC Natural History Unit is working with Discovery on the production of two new series of the Expedition strand for broadcast on BBC One in 2008. The two series are titled Expedition Guyana and Expedition New …

WASHINGTON/MUMBAI, November 9: TinselVision, an online VOD channel targeted at South Asian audiences, has inked a deal for the digital distribution of Bollywood films from India’s Yash Raj Films (YRF). Through the agreement, TinselVision has obtained the rights to distribute, …

TORONTO, November 9: The sports media and entertainment company Insight Sports has reached its first carriage agreement in the U.S. for the Canadian-based World Fishing Network (WFN), which will launch on Verizon FiOS TV. WFN will be available in 12 …

NEW YORK, November 9: My Damn Channel, an entertainment studio and new-media platform for content creators, has launched the Big Fat Brain Channel, which will roll out two new original comedy series: Itty Bitty Liddy and Tim After Tim. Located …