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MONTREAL, August 31: Bubbles Television’s Paquet Voleur (Trade Up) will become the first large-scale televised game show in Quebec to offer contestants the opportunity to win up to C$1 million. French-Canadian broadcaster Société Radio-Canada has already commissioned Bubbles Television to …

MIAMI, August 31: Alvaro Paes de Barros has been promoted to senior VP of distribution for MTV Networks Latin America (MTVNLA) and general manager of Viacom Networks Brazil. A seven-year veteran at MTVNLA, Paes de Barros, most recently VP of …

SANTA MONICA, August 31: Lionsgate has announced the expansion and promotion of key executives in its international sales division under Craig Cegielski, its senior VP of programming and sales. Amanda Cordner has been upped to VP of international television sales; …

SEATTLE, August 31: ReelTime Rentals, which operates the VOD broadband network ReelTime.com, has promoted Beverly Zaslow from her previous role as executive VP of business development to president and COO. In her new role, Zaslow will oversee content acquisitions and …

PARIS, August 31: Vivendi’s revenues for the first half of the year rose 6.4 percent to 10.2 billion euros, but net earnings of 2.2 billion euros were down 12 percent on the previous period. Announcing the results, Jean-Bernard Lévy, chairman …

NEW YORK, August 31: NBC Universal is reportedly not renewing its deal to make some of its content available for download on the iTunes Store, according to published reports, after disagreeing with Apple over pricing. The New York Times reports …

NEW YORK, August 31: The Nielsen Company has revealed that Hispanic and Asian viewers are the fastest-growing national segments of the population, with U.S. television households increasing by 4.4 percent among Hispanics to 12.1 million and 3.9 percent among Asians …

LONDON, August 31: The U.K.’s Football Association has issued a tender invitation to content platforms worldwide for the broadcast rights to the FA Cup and England international matches, among others, for a four-year period from 2008 to 2012. The FA …

NEW YORK, August 31: MTV is ramping up its digital efforts for the 2007 MTV Video Music Awards, with a virtual recreation of the awards show and plans to offer the first mobile simulcast of the event on Sunday, September …

BERLIN, August 30: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment’s (SPHE) Blu-ray Disc sales in Europe have reached the 250,000 mark, while North American sales are nearing the 1-million mark. Meanwhile, sales of the high-definition format in six emerging markets, including Hong Kong, …