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MEXICO CITY, July 5: Televisa Networks’ Cinema Golden Choice Latin America cable channel is expanding its offerings and is gearing up to launch a host of high-definition Mexican productions later this month. The shows start rolling out on the channel …

TORONTO, July 5: Canadian animation house Cuppa Coffee has begun production on Life’s a Zoo, its new stop-motion show for viewers aged 18 and above that is accompanied by a website featuring original content. “The response since MIP has been …

LONDON, July 5: Granada International’s George Sakkalli is joining Power as VP for Asian sales and distribution. Sakkalli spent a number of years as VP of sales for Asia at Granada International, prior to the opening of the company’s office …

BRUSSELS, July 5: The European Commission has levied a fine of more than 151 million euros against Spanish telco giant Telefónica for five years of unfair pricing in the broadband market. The fine, of 151.9 million euros, is for what …

CANBERRA, July 5: The newspaper publisher Fairfax Media and Macquarie Media Group (MMG) have reached a deal to buy Australia’s Southern Cross Broadcasting, the parent company of Southern Star, for A$1.08 billion (US$924 million). Fairfax will take control of Southern …

MUNICH, July 5: The newly enlarged ProSiebenSat.1 Group is acquiring the Austrian free-TV broadcaster PULS TV for an undisclosed sum. ProSiebenSat.1 is taking 100-percent control of the station, which services the Vienna metropolitan area, from a group of private investors. …

CARACAS, July 5: With its main competitor, RCTV, yanked off the air in Venezuela, Venevision is employing a new strategy in dealing with President Hugo Chávez, Gustavo Cisneros, whose media empire owns the broadcast outlet, told the New York Times. …

PARIS, July 5: India will be the country of focus at this year’s MIPCOM, with Zee’s Subhash Chandra and UTV’s Ronnie Screwvala set to deliver keynotes on India Day on October 8. India Day, in partnership with the Federation of …

LONDON, July 3: According to the Guardian, BSkyB is in discussions with Microsoft to make its proposed digital terrestrial television pay-TV service available on PCs. Sky is looking to launch a pay service on Freeview early next year; the proposal …

LONDON, July 3: Speaking at the Royal Television Society, Michael Grade, the executive chairman of ITV, called on broadcasters to remember that maintaining audiences’ trust is key, stating that the call-in scandals that have hit the U.K. reflect a “casual …