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PARIS, August 1: A variety of movies from Disney-ABC International Television are now available on CANAL+ Group’s VOD platform CanalPlay, including recent releases like Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest and 170 library titles. The contract began in July …

TOKYO/SINGAPORE/HONG KONG, August 1: Viacom International Japan has launched myMTV, the first mobile entertainment social networking service in Japan, which will be free of charge to consumers and available on three mobile operators: NTT DoCoMo, KDDI and Softbank Mobile. The …

BASKING RIDGE/ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS, August 1: NBC Universal (NBCU) has reached a deal to make a range of short-form video content from its suite of channels available on demand through Verizon Wireless’ mobile V CAST service. V CAST customers with select …

SINGAPORE, August 1: Following the recent launch of its Football Channel, dedicated to Barclays English Premier League programming, StarHub will add two more offerings—Goal TV and Goal TV 2—to its digital cable TV Sports Group package, bringing the total number …

DALLAS, August 1: Mark Cuban’s HDNet has acquired the high-definition rights to the first 26 episodes of the BBC’s science-fiction series Torchwood. Set in Cardiff, Wales, Torchwood focuses on a renegade group of investigators who scavenge alien technology to solve …

CENTENNIAL, August 1: AZN Television, the Comcast-owned channel for Asian Americans, has acquired a number of new titles specifically for its Ghost Fest summer programming stunt, which commemorates the traditional Chinese Ghost Festival holiday. AZN has acquired films such as …

LONDON, August 1: Edward Galton, previously with the French animation company Xilam, has been named the managing director of Cake Distribution. In his new role, Galton will be focused on steering the distribution company to further heights. His roles will …

NEW YORK, August 1: News Corporation has succeeded in its $5.6-billion takeover bid for Dow Jones & Company, with the Bancroft family, holding 37 percent of the publisher’s voting stock, agreeing to the buyout following the board’s approval last month. …

NEW YORK, August 1: Time Warner’s second-quarter revenues grew 5.2 percent to $1.1 billion, on revenues of $11 billion, a 6-percent gain, driven in part by the cable segment. Consolidated subscription revenues for the company were up 10 percent to …

BOULOGNE, August 1: For the first half of this year, TF1’s revenues grew 3.2 percent to 1.4 billion euros, delivering a net profit of 185.7 million euros, an 8.3 percent gain on the same period last year. French broadcasting revenues …