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SINGAPORE, July 11: Mark Burnett Productions has partnered with Singaporean company Imagine OmniMedia to produce a version of the U.S. reality boxing series The Contender in Singapore, to be broadcast on the AXN network throughout Asia from October. Entitled The …

HO CHI MINH CITY, July 11: At a seminar in Vietnam co-organized by the Cable & Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (CASBAA), the industry association hailed the gains made in that market, but stressed that regulations needed to be put …

NEW YORK, July 11: With limited carriage in the U.S. on Cablevision and Verizon’s FiOS TV, BBC World News is embarking on a new advertising campaign to create awareness of the global news network stateside. The consumer marketing campaign launched …

LONDON, July 11: In a speech at the QE2 Conference Centre in London, the BBC’s director-general, Mark Thompson, said public-service broadcasting in the U.K. would be more necessary than ever by 2012 as a result of “market failure” in comedy, …

TORONTO, July 11: The Canadian multi-faith and multicultural broadcaster VisionTV is set to broadcast the complete first season of the comedy series Little Mosque on the Prairie, beginning August 6 at 9 p.m. The first season of eight half-hour episodes …

BRUSSELS, July 11: The European Commission has sent Spain a letter of formal notice for failing to comply with Television Without Frontiers rules on spot advertising and tele-shopping. The Commission said that a report by an independent consultant revealed numerous …

LONDON, July 11: Ahead of the launch of the fourth season of The X Factor on ITV in the U.K., FremantleMedia Enterprises (FME) has lined up a host of new licensees for the show. ScentUps UK has been licensed rights …

LOS ANGELES, July 11: Disney-ABC Domestic Television has reached an agreement to make a number of new and classic feature films from The Walt Disney Studios available to U.S. members of Microsoft’s online video download service, Xbox LIVE Marketplace, starting …

KNOXVILLE, July 11: After serving as the senior VP of Scripps Networks Interactive, Beth Higbee is taking on a new role with the company as senior VP and general manager of Emerging Ventures. Higbee will focus on the creation of …

SANTA MONICA, July 11: Lionsgate has made an investment in Break.com, an online video destination targeted at 18- to-34-year-old men that reaches more than 17 million monthly unique visitors. Financial terms were not disclosed. The deal allows the independent studio …