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NEW YORK, June 8: The peer-to-peer-based global Internet TV platform Babelgum is now accessible to users around the world. Currently, users with a PC and broadband Internet connection can access Babelgum for free, but the service will be funded by …

LONDON, June 8: Following a better-than-expected TV subscriber performance during April and May, Virgin expects the loss of TV subscribers to stabilize for the second quarter. This announcement revises a previous statement made on May 9, when Virgin Media forecast …

NEW YORK, June 8: After 86 episodes over the course of eight-and-a-half years, The Sopranos, one of the most groundbreaking dramas in the history of television, will air for the last time on June 10. Fans of the HBO drama …

LONDON, June 8: Ocean, a new eight-part documentary series commissioned by BBC Two, will reveal the hidden stories of our planet’s oceans. The proposed team of adventurers—explorer Paul Rose, maritime archaeologist Dr. Lucy Blue and marine biologist Tooni Mahto—will journey …

LONDON, June 8: Chellomedia, the European content division of Liberty Global, Inc. has consolidated its long-standing investment in Minimax by acquiring the remaining 50 percent of the children’s channel. Chellomedia has held a 50-percent investment in Minimax since 2004. Targeted …

LOS ANGELES, June 7: Bob Barker, 83, taped his last round of The Price is Right Wednesday morning, ending his 35-year run as host of the longest-running game show in the U.S. and his five decades on network television. The …

NEW YORK, June 7: The National Hockey League (NHL) has reached an agreement to use Sling Media’s upcoming Clip+Sling technology to allow all current and future Slingbox customers to clip and share live or recorded segments of NHL programming online …

LONDON, June 7: The entertainment-rights company Entara has secured the U.K. licensing rights to the classic French children’s series The Magic Roundabout, and will be developing a comprehensive U.K. licensing program from the series. Created by Serge Danot in 1965, …

LONDON, June 7: Disney Channel has inked a deal to supply its three branded channels—Disney Channel, Playhouse Disney and Disney Cinemagic—to the IPTV platform Tiscali TV in the U.K. Starting this month, Disney Channel and the preschool channel Playhouse Disney …

LOS ANGELES, June 7: Lifetime Television has begun production on the Lifetime Original Movie The Murder of Princess Diana, which will premiere this August to coincide with the 10th anniversary of Princess Diana’s death in a fatal car crash. Produced …