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NEW YORK, February 22: Rainbow Media’s IFC Entertainment has made its catalog of independent theatrical films available on Apple’s iTunes Store, including all of its films nominated for this year’s Independent Spirit Awards. Priced at $9.99 each, 13 IFC films …

LOS ANGELES, February 22: Cookie Jar Entertainment has licensed its original 2-D animated series Magi-Nation to Kids’ WB! in the U.S. and to CBC in Canada. The networks will broadcast the first 26 episodes of Magi-Nation, which is the newest …

LONDON, February 22: Virgin Media’s LIVING channel has acquired the rights to the new 8×30-minute reality series Tori and Dean: Inn Love from World of Wonder. The reality series follows Tori Spelling, the former star of Beverly Hills 90210, as …

LONDON, February 22: Granada International has licensed more than 30 classic feature films from the Rank, ITC and Romulus libraries to ProSiebenSat.1 Media’s pay-TV channel kabel eins classics for broadcast this year. Titles acquired for the channel, which launched last …

SAN FRANCISCO, February 22: Eric Schmidt, the CEO of Google, told Reuters yesterday that YouTube is “committed to” implementing anti-piracy technologies “very soon.” The news comes amid reports that negotiations have broken down between CBS Corporation and YouTube over adding …

NEW YORK, February 22: Spike TV and online video-gamer site GameTrailers.com, both divisions of Viacom-owned MTV Networks, have partnered for the enhanced version of the video game series Game Head, launching on the network tomorrow. The collaboration is the first …

LONDON, February 22: Time Warner is number one on ZenithOptimedia’s new ranking of the top 30 global media owners, followed by News Corporation in the number two spot. The top 30 companies collectively generated $215 billion in media revenues. The …

MUNICH, February 22: ProSiebenSat.1 Group, which today announced its acquisition of the German online shopping resource Solute, has reported 2006 revenues of 2.1 billion euros, a 6-percent gain on 2005, with profits up 9 percent to 240.7 million euros. “The …

HILVERSUM, February 22: Driven by strong gains in its American and British operations, Endemol has reported 2006 revenues of 1.12 billion euros, a change of 24.1 percent from 2005, with net profit increasing by 17.3 percent to 101.3 million euros. …

LONDON, February 22: British media regulator Ofcom has concluded that it is “appropriate and necessary” to adopt restrictions on the television advertising of junk food products to kids under 16. Ofcom’s co-regulatory partners, the Broadcast Committee on Advertising Practice (BCAP) …