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MUMBAI, July 23: Swati Shetty will join Disney-ABC International Television (Asia Pacific) as the director for India, replacing Amit Malhotra, who was promoted in June to regional sales director for pan Asia, India and Singapore. Shetty will take up new …

LOS ANGELES/NEW YORK, July 23: In a letter to Forbes magazine, Viacom and CBS Corporation’s executive chairman, Sumner Redstone, criticized his daughter Shari, who serves as the vice chair of both companies. The elder Redstone sent the letter to the …

CARACAS, July 23: Gustavo Cisneros, the chairman and CEO of the Cisneros Group of Companies, has released details about a controversial meeting he had in 2004 with Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez and former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, asserting that “no …

LOS ANGELES, July 23: On Saturday night, NBC garnered the most trophies—four—at the 23rd Television Critics Association (TCA) Awards at The Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, including Outstanding Program of the Year for the drama Heroes. The awards ceremony …

MADRID, July 23: Jesus de Polanco, the founder and chairman of the Spanish media giant Grupo PRISA, passed away this weekend. He was 77. Born in Madrid, de Polanco founded Editorial Santillana in 1958 and built it into Grupo PRISA. …

LONDON, July 23: Angela Bromstad, formerly with NBC Universal Television Studios, has been named president of international television production at NBC Universal International, based in London, effective September 1. Reporting to Peter Smith, the president of NBC Universal International, Bromstad …

LOS ANGELES, July 23: FOX has renewed its successful reality shows So You Think You Can Dance and Hell’s Kitchen and has ordered 13 additional episodes of the new summer series Don’t Forget the Lyrics. So You Think You Can …

LONDON, July 23: A new report from research firm Screen Digest shows that while the number of children’s television channels has proliferated throughout the world, broadcaster spending on children’s programming has remained virtually unchanged over the last five years, decreasing …

SINGAPORE, July 20: Singapore Telecommunications has launched mio TV, a new pay-TV service featuring 24 linear channels, including new offerings from VOOM and the BBC, and video on demand content such as a host of feature films from Sony Pictures …

NEW YORK/PLAINVIEW, July 20: The National Hockey League (NHL) has tapped NeuLion to power its new online video portal, which will offer live hockey games and is scheduled to rollout at the start of the 2007-08 season. The new NHL …