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NEW YORK/BEAVERTON, December 6: The Nielsen Company and Digimarc Corporation are launching Nielsen Digital Media Manager, which aims to provide media companies with a reliable way of tracking their content online. The system will enable media companies, social networks, peer-to-peer …

PHILADELPHIA, December 6: Comcast has announced that its signature On Demand service has ratcheted up more than 6 billion views in less than four years, with more than 1 billion hours of on-demand content watched this year alone. Additionally, the …

NEW YORK, December 6: The Paley Center for Media, formerly The Museum of Television & Radio, has partnered with Springboard Enterprises for the creation of ALLTHINGSMEDIA, the first venture capital forum to showcase media companies led by women. The ALLTHINGSMEDIA …

NEW YORK, December 6: Sesame Workshop has launched The Joan Ganz Cooney Center, named after Sesame Street’s founder, which will explore the educational potential of digital media in kids’ literacy development. Based at Sesame Workshop, The Joan Ganz Cooney Center …

LONDON, December 6: Sony Pictures Releasing International and Arts Alliance Media (AAM) have reached a non-exclusive long-term agreement for digital cinema deployment in Europe. Under the agreement, Sony Pictures has committed to supply its films to certain European countries in …

DOHA, December 6: The Media Development Authority has granted Al Jazeera English, the Middle East-based English-language news and current affairs channel, permission to broadcast in Singapore. The Media Development Authority approved SingTel's application for Al Jazeera English early this month, …

PARK RIDGE/NEW YORK, December 6: Nickelodeon has teamed up with car rental company The Hertz Corporation for the rollout of Nick on the Go, a portable touch-screen media player pre-loaded with more than 40 hours of Nickelodeon and Nick Jr. …

NEW YORK/LONDON, December 6: Discovery Kids Latin America has picked up new seasons of HIT Entertainment’s Barney, Bob the Builder and Thomas & Friends. Discovery Kids will air never-before-seen episodes of Barney, Bob the Builder and Thomas & Friends in …

TORONTO, December 6: 9 Story Entertainment has secured a raft of international sales for its comedy-action adventure series Futz! The first 26×3-minutes episodes of the series have been acquired by Australia’s ABC, Luk Internacional in Spain, HBO in Asia, Finland’s …

TORONTO, December 6: Playhouse Disney in Canada will premiere the new 26-episode half-hour preschool series Bunnytown on January 13, 2008, at 7:30 a.m. The series will air subsequently on Saturdays and Sundays at 7:30 a.m., 11:30 a.m. and 5 p.m. …