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MELBOURNE/LOS ANGELES, December 11: The high-definition CGI-animated fantasy-adventure children’s series Animalia, produced by Australia’s Animalia Productions in association with PorchLight Entertainment, will premiere in the U.S. on PBS KIDS GO! in January 2008. PBS KIDS GO! has made a 40-episode …

MEXICO CITY, December 11: Televisa International, previously known as Televisa Estudios, is bringing six new telenovelas to NATPE, as well as a wide variety of other content. Among the six novela titles is the 130×1-hour tentatively-titled I Will Forever Love …

NEW YORK, December 11: Univision Communications has named Tonia O’Connor to the position of executive VP of distribution sales and marketing for the Univision Networks. Based in New York, O’Connor will take up her post on January 2, 2008, reporting …

NEW YORK/LONDON, December 11: AETN International has appointed Mark Taylor as its VP of international ad sales, based in London. Taylor will be charged with developing international ad-sales strategies for AETN channels, including The History Channel, The History Channel HD, …

LONDON, December 11: As part of an effort to expand its output of entertainment programming, Zodiak-owned Bullseye Television has appointed producer Martin Oxley as its head of entertainment development. In his new role, Oxley will be tasked with the development …

MUNICH, December 11: Axel Springer is set to sell its 12-percent stake in ProSiebenSat.1 Media to private-equity firms KKR and Permira for 509.4 million euros. KKR and Permira acquired 50.5 percent in the European broadcasting group from Haim Saban’s German …

ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS/MILPITAS, December 11: NBC Universal is set to make a slate of current and library TV content available for download from Fanfare, a web-based offering from SanDisk Corporation, a developer of portable audio/video players. The deal covers current TV …

LONDON, December 11: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) has inked a multi-year agreement to provide a range of films from its catalogue on demand to subscribers of Orange’s digital television service in France, Spain, Poland and the U.K. MGM is the fifth American …

NEW YORK, December 10: Roger M. King, the CEO of King World and CBS Television Distribution, passed away this weekend after suffering a stroke on Friday. He was 63. King was the chief executive of CBS Television Distribution at the …

LUXEMBOURG, December 10: Gunter Thielen, the outgoing chairman and CEO of Bertelsmann, and Ewald Walgenbach will step down from the Board of Directors of the RTL Group, effective December 31. Thielen has been a member of the RTL Group Board …