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NEW YORK, October 26: Viacom's MTV Networks has upped Tina Imm to the role of senior VP and general manager for VH1 Digital and has promoted Tony Carbone and Deb Kadetsky to VP of digital production and programming and VP …

BOULOGNE, October 26: Group revenues at the market-leading French broadcasting group TF1 rose 4.5 percent in the first nine months of the year to 1.97 billion euros. Net advertising at the main TF1 channel was relatively flat at 1.23 billion …

LOS ANGELES, October 26: The Troll Company has responded to DIC Entertainment’s $20-million lawsuit filed earlier this week, calling the allegations of fraud and negligent representation “baseless.” On Wednesday, DIC Entertainment lodged a suit against the Troll Company (TC), alleging …

LOS ANGELES, October 26: The American Film Market (AFM) has unveiled its schedule of seminars and conferences, a total of 16 panel sessions addressing topics such as distribution, budgeting, production incentives, digital distribution, film adaptation and mobile. The panel sessions …

NEW YORK, October 26: Spike TV and the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) organization have agreed to a new, three-year extension of their partnership, which will see the male-skewing network remain as the basic-cable home of the mixed martial arts brand …

NEW YORK, October 26: SCI FI Channel has greenlit a new two-hour dramedy pilot from Universal Media Studios, Warehouse 13. The new one-hour dramedy is slated to begin production in December for rollout in summer 2008. Warehouse 13 is based …

BURBANK, October 25: Through a deal with the Associated Press, NBC Universal has tapped AP Images as the exclusive third-party distribution outlet in the U.S. and Mexico—and a non-exclusive outlet throughout much of the world—for its archival television photos. Under …

BURBANK, October 25: Beginning this Saturday, October 22, Disney Channel will debut High School Musical: The Music In You, an unscripted short-form series of 12 interstitials following a student theatre company in Fort Worth, Texas, as they learn to express …

LONDON, October 25: HIT Entertainment has licensed its popular preschool property Fireman Sam to Five and Turner Broadcasting’s Cartoonito in the U.K., for broadcast in spring 2008. Five has licensed the first five seasons and a 20-minute special of Fireman …

HONG KONG, October 25: Sony Pictures Television International’s youth-skewing anime channel Animax will roll out its new monthly subscription-based mobile service Animax Mobile in Hong Kong and Taiwan. Animax Mobile has already debuted to consumers in Hong Kong through the …