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MUMBAI/NEW YORK, May 22: Viacom has formed a 50-50 joint venture with India’s TV18 Group that will include the launch of a new Hindi-language general entertainment cable and satellite channel in the lucrative market within the next year. TV18’s other …

UNTERFÖHRING, May 22: EM.TV is repositioning itself to focus more on its sports business and is currently looking for a buyer for its children’s and youth content divisions, EM.Entertainment and Junior.TV. No timetable has been given for the planned sale, …

LOS ANGELES, May 22: At the L.A. Screenings, Disney-ABC International Television announced a new video-on-demand deal with TF1, and the renewal of its multi-genre deal with MediaCorp in Singapore. The deal with TF1 Vidéo’s VOD service, TF1 Vision, allows users …

MTV Networks Launches VOD Content in Latin America MIAMI, May 22: MTV Networks Latin America (MTVNLA) is rolling out video on demand content to cable operators in the region through Digital Latin America (DLA), a provider of digital content and …

NEW YORK, May 22: Creative Artists Agency (CAA) has reached a deal with Joost to assist in its efforts to secure entertaining content for distribution on the Internet TV platform. The agreement will allow Joost to obtain additional programming by …

SANTA MONICA, May 22: GSN has acquired the rights to Show Me the Money, the Endemol USA game show produced for ABC and distributed in the U.S. by Disney-ABC Domestic Television. The agreement for the show, which is hosted by …

TORONTO, May 22: The Banff World Television Festival (BWTVF) has announced that Gilbert Rozon and the Just For Laughs comedy festival will receive the Sir Peter Ustinov Comedy Award during the BWTVF Awards Show on Monday, June 11. Past Sir …

PALO ALTO, May 22: Azureus, a peer-to-peer based content distributor, has reached a deal to make a range of party and dance music-themed programming from Ministry of Sound TV (MoSTV) available on its broadband video-sharing platform Vuze. Launched in November …

LOS ANGELES, May 22: MGM Domestic Television Distribution has secured a national fall syndication launch for its half-hour improv comedy series Sports Action Team, which has cleared all ten NBC-owned and operating stations in the U.S. The ten NBC-owned and …

NEW YORK, May 22: Animators are being encouraged to submit entries to the Nicktoons Network Animation Festival—which is offering up a $10,000 prize—before the deadline on June 1. The festival, now in its fourth year, celebrates the art of the …