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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 …

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 …