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SAN ANTONIO/WEST PALM BEACH, March 5: ION Media Networks’ suite of channels, including the flagship ION Television and the kids’ service qubo, will be made available as part of the AT&T U-verse TV lineup. AT&T will carry ION Television, featuring …

UNTERFOEHRING, March 2: EM.Entertainment is making a selection of its kids’ programming available on ProSiebenSat.1’s VOD portal maxdome, including titles such as Vicky the Viking, Pippi Longstocking and Heidi. Starting from today, viewers may access nearly 100 EM.Entertainment titles on …

TORONTO, March 2: Broadband IPTV service JumpTV, which delivers a slate of foreign-language content, has inked a deal to make a “significant portion” of its VOD offerings available on the new Joost platform. JumpTV currently broadcasts news, entertainment, music and …

LONDON, March 2: Entara has reached a global deal with Nickelodeon for its new CGI series Those Scurvy Rascals, a 26×3.5-minute show that is slated to begin airing this spring. The deal covers the on-air, online and digital mobile rights …

SYDNEY/BRIGHTON, March 2: At the BBC Showcase in Brighton, BBC Worldwide announced that it had secured a deal with Korean mobile television broadcaster TU Media for Top Gear and had licensed more than 300 hours of lifestyle content into New …

SYDNEY, March 2: Paramount Home Entertainment has secured the Australasian DVD rights for the 130×30-minute preschool series Raggs from Southern Star International. Paramount will release the Raggs DVD to complement the recent rollout of Universal Music’s Raggs audio CD Let’s …

BURBANK, March 2: Kevin Reilly has signed a new, multi-year deal to continue as president of NBC Entertainment, a position that he has held for nearly three years. Reilly, who was named president of NBC Entertainment in May 2004, was …

TOKYO, March 2: Harry Tanaka has been promoted to VP of sales at Buena Vista International Television Japan (BVITV-J), reporting to Paul Candland, the SVP and MD of Walt Disney Television International Japan. In his new role, based in Tokyo, …

NEW YORK, March 2: Viacom saw traffic to its MTV, Comedy Central and Nickelodeon websites increase over the past few weeks, since it ordered YouTube to remove about 100,000 of its clips after the two companies failed to reach a …

LONDON, March 2: A slate of clips from the BBC’s entertainment and news content will be made available online via deals announced today with the Google-owned content sharing site YouTube. Financial terms were not disclosed for the non-exclusive partnerships inked …