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BANGKOK, March 2: Beleaguered Thai broadcaster ITV is set to be run by the government-owned media company MCOT, which currently operates the Channel 9 station and the Thai News Agency. According to local press reports, Chulayuth Hirunyavasit, the permanent secretary …

NEW DELHI, March 2: Sony Pictures Television International’s AXN brand is back on the air in India, with the government lifting its ban on the action-adventure network for broadcasting allegedly lewd content. The ban was imposed in late January, for …

LONDON, March 2: Bollywood giant Eros International has signed an agreement for a range of its feature films to air on the Indian entertainment channel Sony Entertainment Television, including the recent hit Salaam-E-Ishq. The package deal also covers Lage Raho …

BURBANK, March 2: A new Spider-Man animated series, tentatively titled The Amazing Spider-Man, from Sony Pictures Television’s Culver Entertainment, is scheduled to premiere on Kids' WB! on The CW in the early part of 2008. Greg Weisman (Gargoyles, The Batman) …

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 …