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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 …

HOLLYWOOD, July 23: The Emmy-Award winning FOX series 24 has announced that it will make significant environmentally-friendly changes to its production practices during the seventh season in an effort to educate and inspire its viewers to take climate change and …

LONDON, July 23: Channel 4 is working with Emap to create a leading music TV provider, with the British broadcaster acquiring 50 percent of Emap’s music TV business, Box Television, for £28 million. The joint venture will operate and expand …

SINGAPORE, July 23: StarHub has partnered with Hong Kong’s Goal TV and Ten Sports in Dubai for the launch of Football Channel, a new sports channel dedicated to 24-hour Barclays Premier League programming. The new channel will be available to …

NEW YORK, July 23: A&E Television Networks (AETN) has reached a deal to launch two made-for-mobile channels, A&E Mobile and The History Channel Mobile, in the U.S. on mobile content provider MobiTV. Available on the mobile channels will be acclaimed …

LONDON/PARIS, July 23: Nearly six months since its launch, the on-demand Japanese animation channel GONG is now available to 20 million individuals via the Internet or mobile in 36 countries across Europe and North America. On the peer-to-peer-based Internet TV …