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BURBANK, February 8: The Disney Channel mega hit High School Musical will get a big-screen treatment in 2008 with Haunted High School Musical, it was announced today by the Walt Disney Motion Pictures Group. High School Musical has reached more …

LOS ANGELES, February 8: Cookie Jar Entertainment has appointed Ann Austen as the senior VP of development and television/video sales. In her new position, Austen will be responsible for developing Cookie Jar’s original properties and for television/video sales within the …

BRISTOL, February 8: ESPN is relaunching its shuttered mobile service in deals announced today with Verizon Wireless and MediaFLO. The sports broadcaster shut down its mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) last year after failing to attract enough subscribers. In the …

NEW YORK, February 8: Pokémon USA has appointed former 4Kids Entertainment executive Caryl Liebmann as its director of retail development and promotions. Liebmann’s responsibilities include developing and implementing retail promotions such as feature shops, gift with purchase programs, coupon redemptions, …

LOS ANGELES, February 8: Just a day since announcing the launch of its new CBS Mobile division, CBS has launched three websites for mobile users: a CBS Mobile Store and two new advertising-supported WAP sites for sports and news. The …

PARIS/MADRID, February 8: Telefónica is working with Alcatel-Lucent on a pilot service in Spain delivering interactive TV, radio and music to mobile handsets. The tests started in early October 2006 and are scheduled to run for six months. The service …

MELBOURNE, February 8: Seven Network, Network Ten and FOXTEL today announced the rights-sharing agreement to carry matches from the Australian Football League on free- and pay-TV from 2007 to 2011. In January 2006, Seven and TEN accepted the AFL's terms …

TORONTO, February 8: In its second straight deal with Mark Burnett Productions, CTV has acquired the Canadian broadcast rights to the new reality series Pirate Master: The Adventure Begins, for premiere this summer. CTV’s deal with Mark Burnett Productions comes …

SYDNEY, February 7: Mark Scott, the managing director of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), today unveiled a new digital media strategy as well as a restructure of its international broadcasting division and a new commercial arm. Scott announced that ABC’s …

LONDON/NEWBURY, February 7: Fox Interactive Media’s lifestyle portal MySpace.com has partnered with Vodafone for the launch of MySpace Mobile, which will initially be offered to millions of Vodafone customers in the U.K. Vodafone customers in the U.K. will now be …