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LONDON, February 9: Factual distributor TVF International has licensed more than 20 hours of programming into Spain via Televisió de Catalunya and Sogecable’s travel channel Viajar. The deals include the sale to Televisió de Catalunya of the 4×56-minute acclaimed environmental …

TORONTO, February 9: Solutions 2 GO Inc, a Canadian-based provider of electronic entertainment products, has reached a deal with 20th Century Fox Licensing and Merchandising to develop a line of video game accessories in North America based on FOX’s hit …

NEW YORK, February 9: News Corporation’s chairman and CEO, Rupert Murdoch, told attendees at McGraw-Hill’s Media Summit in New York yesterday that while he finds YouTube “hypnotic,” he questioned the user-generated content site’s ability to deliver significant ad revenues. According …

ATLANTA, February 9: Jim Samples, the executive VP and general manager of Cartoon Network, resigned today over the cable network’s marketing ploy that caused a bomb scare in Boston last week. Cartoon Network has not yet formally announced Samples’ exit, …

BURBANK, February 9: Stephen Slesinger Inc.’s (SSI) long-running battle against The Walt Disney Company over Winnie the Pooh rights is back in the news with the company petitioning the U.S. Patent Office to cancel several of Disney’s trademark registrations from …

NEW YORK, February 9: According to The Nielsen Company, the average commercial aired during the Super Bowl on CBS last Sunday received a 32.1 rating with a viewership of 92.8 million. The average viewer rating for the Super Bowl program …

MONACO, February 8: A third ballroom has been added to the exhibition space at the Miami Beach Resort and Spa for SPORTELAmerica 2007, taking place March 12-14. Among the registered exhibitors for the three-day affair are Fox Sports International, Globo …

MIAMI/NEW YORK, February 8: Nickelodeon Latin America has picked up the rights to two animated properties from Breakthrough Entertainment: Captain Flamingo and Jimmy Two Shoes. Captain Flamingo is set for a spring premiere, followed by Jimmy Two Shoes in the …

SEOUL, February 8: Sony Pictures Television International has appointed Soojin Chung as the executive director of licensing in Korea, heading up a new office in Seoul that opens this month. Chung, previously the head of sales for Korea at Buena …

HILVERSUM, February 8: John de Mol’s Talpa Media Group has set up an international distribution division to exploit its completed productions and its formats. The launch of Talpa Content follows the recent American deal on the format The Golden Cage …