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NEW YORK/LITTLE ROCK, August 9: Alltel Wireless has reached a deal to offer its customers a suite of mobile content from Viacom’s MTV Networks (MTVN), including on-demand video, WAP sites, games and personalization features. MTVN will begin offering video from …

STOCKHOLM, August 9: Viasat Broadcasting has secured the exclusive rights to broadcast in Hungary and Slovenia the next five seasons of EHF Champions League in handball, beginning this September. From the start of the 2007-2008 season in September, Viasat3 in …

LONDON, August 9: HIT Entertainment has appointed Orchard Books as its publishing partner in the U.K. for the girl-skewing animated property Rainbow Magic. Over a five-year period, Orchard Books, who published the original Rainbow Magic books, will publish all English-language …

NORWALK, August 9: CABLEready has finalized deals for a wide variety of its non-fiction programming in Australia, Asia and the Middle East, including a significant package going to Crime & Investigation Network in Australia. In the deal with Crime & …

LONDON, August 9: Turner Broadcasting System (TBS) has tapped wireless entertainment provider GlobalFun as the pan-European distributor for mobile games based on the Adult Swim series The Brak Show and the Cartoon Network series Johnny Bravo. The deal follows a …

LONDON/NEW YORK, August 9: Darlow Smithson Productions, an IMG Media company, has appointed A&E Television Networks veteran Didi O’Hearn as VP of U.S. productions, based in IMG’s New York offices, to support the company’s continued growth in the American market. …

NEW YORK, August 9: Fourth-quarter profit at News Corporation rose 4.5 percent to $890 million, while full-year net income jumped 48 percent to $3.4 billion. For the quarter, revenues were up 9 percent to $7.4 billion and for the year …

SAN FRANCISCO/NEW YORK, August 9: According to The New York Times, the private equity firm Providence Equity Partners has acquired a 10-percent stake in the new online video venture from NBC Universal and News Corporation for $100 million. The as-yet-unnamed …

ENGLEWOOD, August 9: Despite a 37-percent increase in revenues to $2.18 billion, Liberty Global has recorded a second-quarter net loss of $129.7 million, versus its $24.2 million profit a year ago. For the first half of the year, meanwhile, revenues …

DALLAS, August 9: DVD rental giant Blockbuster is angling for a foothold in the content download market, announcing the acquisition of Movielink, the online movie service established by a number of Hollywood studios. Movielink offers customers the ability to legally …