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SILVER SPRING, March 29: Discovery Communications has signed a non-binding letter of intent to redeem Cox Communications’ 25-percent stake in the company in a $1.275 billion deal that sees Discovery giving up its ownership of Travel Channel. In the proposed …

REDMOND, March 29: Content from A&E Network, ADV Films, National Geographic and TotalVid.com have all joined the Xbox LIVE content lineup, while Paramount Pictures and Warner Bros. Home Entertainment have added HD movie titles to the service. The new partners …

WASHINGTON, D.C., March 29: As debates continue on the topic of childhood obesity, a new study on TV food advertising released by the Kaiser Family Foundation shows that TV shows specifically designed for children under 12 have the highest proportion …

NEW YORK/BURBANK, March 29: NBC has renewed its agreement with Donald J. Trump and the Miss Universe Organization to broadcast the Miss Universe and Miss USA competitions for three more years, beginning in 2008. As part of the deal, Telemundo …

BUENOS AIRES, March 29: Just a few months after being launched as a three-hour block on Fox Life Channel, in Latin America, Fox Latin American Channels will launch Baby TV, the first 24-hour commercial-free channel designed for infants and toddlers …

NEW YORK, March 29: Bolstering its “Characters Welcome” brand, USA Network has announced a new development slate for the 2007/2008 season, including five new pilot scripts. USA Network’s upcoming slate includes The Negotiator (working title), featuring a crisis negotiator for …

UNTERFOEHRING/LONDON, March 29: As part of a far-reaching reciprocal distribution arrangement, EM.Entertainment and Sparrowhawk Distribution have agreed to pool their distribution capabilities and their extensive children’s, youth and family catalogues. A combined distribution team helmed by John Morris, the MD …

SANTA MONICA, March 29: GSN, the network for games, has ordered 40 half-hour episodes of Camouflage, a new hidden word puzzle and trivia game show, from Disney's Buena Vista Productions. Camouflage marks the first collaboration between Buena Vista Productions and …

LONDON, March 29: The Japanese video-on-demand company Gakken Index has secured the broadband VOD rights to more than 400 hours of Granada International programming and will supply that content, branded Granada Broadband, to all major IPTV services in Japan. Titles …

LONDON, March 29: Virgin Media Television-owned entertainment channel LIVING has reached a new agreement with Buena Vista International Television (BVITV) for the exclusive U.K. rights to two U.S. dramas, the supernatural drama Ghost Whisperer and the procedural drama Criminal Minds. …