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NEW YORK, February 20: Rainbow Media is rebranding its Mag Rack video-on-demand service as LifeSkool and is planning to launch additional VOD services under the Skool brand, including MusicSkool, to join the already established SportsSkool. The Skool brand is being …

SILVER SPRING, February 20: Explorer, author and wilderness educator Josh Bernstein will host and produce specials and series exclusively for the Discovery Channel, beginning this April. Bernstein’s programs will focus on subjects ranging from anthropology and archaeology to environmental issues. …

NEW YORK, February 20: Lightworks Producing Group has inked a partnership deal with the environmentally conscious website Ecorazzi.com for Ecorazzi.tv, a weekly television series dedicated to news on celebrities who support environmental and humanitarian causes. Two-time Emmy Award winner, veteran …

ATLANTA, February 20: NASCAR.com, a division of Turner Sports New Media, will make video highlights of this year’s Daytona 500 available for download on Apple’s iTunes Store the day after the race. The expanded highlights, which are available for $1.99, …

LONDON, February 20: Warner Bros. will deliver more than 500 episodes from several current and classic dramas and comedies, including Nip/Tuck, The OC, Friends and ER, to Virgin Media’s TV-on-demand (TVoD) service. The deal will make the Warner Bros. content …

VANCOUVER, February 20: France 3 has added Nerd Corps Entertainment’s 3-D animated series Storm Hawks, targeted at kids aged 6 to 11, to its fall lineup. A total of 52 half-hour episodes are currently in production by Nerd Corps Entertainment. …

NEW YORK, February 20: Nickelodeon yesterday launched ME:TV, a new programming block, airing Monday through Friday from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m., featuring user-generated content. Viewers can visit www.nick.com/metv to submit their own original content, and then watch, rate or …

SYDNEY, February 20: Kanal 2 Estonia has acquired from Southern Star International seasons 16 to 20 of Home & Away and seasons 4 to 8 of McLeod’s Daughters, as well as securing a five-year output deal with the Australian distributor. …

MILAN, February 16: Mediaset’s deputy chairman, Piersilvio Berlusconi, has said that the Italian media giant is interested in acquiring Endemol, “but the price remains a fundamental variable,” he told the Corriere della Sera newspaper. Berlusconi noted that the purchase of …

LOS ANGELES, February 16: ABC’s Lost fell to a ratings low for a new episode this week, delivering 12.8 million viewers versus the time slot’s winner, CBS’s CSI: NY with 14.63 million viewers. This week’s viewership was down on the …