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NEW YORK, November 7: According to Nielsen Monitor-Plus, total ad spending on Spanish-language media in the U.S. for the first half of 2007 reached $2.87 billion, a 2.3-percent increase over the same time period last year. While Spanish-language network TV …

NEW YORK, November 7: In the third quarter, net revenues at Univision Communications were up 4.4 percent to $529.1 million. The results last year included $24.7 million in revenues from the 2006 World Cup; excluding that amount, the Hispanic broadcaster’s …

LONDON, November 6: Babelgum has partnered with the U.K.-based Encounters Short Film Festival to allow participants to air their short films on the peer-to-peer-based global Internet TV platform. The films will be available to a potential 300-plus million people worldwide …

NEW YORK, November 6: Film Movement, a North American film distributor of first-run independent and foreign films, has launched the Film Festival Channel (FFC), a free, ad-supported VOD movie channel that is sponsored by Stella Artois and will be available …

LONDON, November 6: FremantleMedia Enterprises (FME) and talkbackTHAMES have aligned for a digital campaign for the British police drama The Bill, including the launch of a dedicated channel on YouTube. The Bill’s YouTube offering will include sneak previews of upcoming …

LONDON, November 6: Power will attend the Asia Television Forum (ATF) this month with a portfolio of new co-productions and a diverse slate of TV series and mini-series. Power’s lineup includes the 2×2-hour action thriller XIII: The Conspiracy, which stars …

MUNICH/LONDON, November 6: TV-Loonland has inked a series of international broadcast and home-entertainment deals for its BAFTA-nominated animated preschool property Little Princess. Little Princess has been placed in more than 120 territories. Cartoon Network Spain and Canada’s TV Ontario have …

MEVASSERT ZION, November 6: Israel’s Armoza Formats has sold the reality format Revenge of the Geeks into the U.S., the U.K., France, Spain, the Netherlands and Poland. The studio reality show debuted at MIPCOM. Negotiations are still underway with several …

PALISADES PARK, November 6: Alfred Haber Distribution, Inc. (AHDI) has completed new international broadcast sales for the 2007 Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show. The one-hour special has been licensed to Televisa in Mexico, CanWest Global in Canada, Network Ten in Australia, …

MIAMI, November 6: MTV Networks Latin America has made three new appointments and two promotions as part of a continued restructuring of its creative team for VH1 and MTV. The announcement was made by José Tillán, who was recently promoted …