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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 …

SILVER SPRING, August 8: For the three months that ended June 30, 2007, Discovery Communications recorded an 11-percent increase in revenues to $812 million, led by a 10-percent increase in ad revenues. The company also recorded a 4-percent rise in …

STUDIO CITY, August 8: Crown Media Holdings today announced that it reduced its second-quarter net loss from last year’s $227.4 million to $43.7 million; and unveiled plans to launch a high-definition version of the Hallmark Movie Channel in the first …

NEW YORK, August 8: USA Network has unveiled plans to launch Didja.com, a new website focused on advertising content that includes a social networking application and a free online archive of current and classic television commercials, movie trailers and other …