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SANTA CLARA, April 30: California-based VUDU says it has lined up content deals with seven Hollywood studios in order to offer subscribers access to more than 5,000 titles directly on their television sets, without requiring a PC or a cable …

SANTA MONICA, April 30: Ovation TV, the only 24-hour U.S. cable network devoted exclusively to the arts and personal creativity, will re-launch in conjunction with its premiere on DIRECTV on June 20, with plans to initiate an aggressive multiplatform strategy …

TORONTO, April 30: The 14th annual Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival awarded more than C$50,000 in cash prizes to six films in official competition, along with a slew of other awards, on Friday, April 27, at a ceremony at …

LONDON, April 27: The BBC has been given approval by the BBC Trust to launch a nation-wide free-to-view satellite offering, currently known as Freesat, in association with ITV. Freesat will provide standard definition and high-definition channels, beginning in the spring …

KUALA LUMPUR, April 27: Discovery Networks Asia is launching three new channels in Malaysia on the Astro platform on May 1: Discovery Science, Discovery Home & Health and Discovery Real Time. The new channels join the existing Discovery Channel, Animal …

TORONTO, April 27: Sony Pictures Entertainment has acquired the distribution rights for DVD, TV, mobile and new media, outside North America, to five feature films from Canada’s Peace Arch Entertainment Group. The films are the dramas The Good Shepherd (Christian …

NEW YORK, April 27: At its Upfront presentation, Cartoon Network’s late-night programming block, Adult Swim, announced plans to add a seventh night of programming, and introduced a lineup of new series such as Fat Guy Stuck In Internet, Lucy, the …

SANTA MONICA, April 27: ClickStar has reached a deal with AOL for the exclusive promotion of its broadband premiere of the film Lonely Hearts—featuring Salma Hayek and John Travolta—which is now available for a limited number of free downloads via …

PALO ALTO, April 27: Azureus, which aggregates and distributes long-form, high-quality video over the Internet, has reached a deal to offer up content from UNICEF on its Vuze platform worldwide. The deal, UNICEF’s first with a peer-to-peer platform, will see …

SAN FRANCISCO, April 27: Michael Hoff Productions (MHP) has announced a production slate that includes a range of programs for National Geographic Channel (NGC), Fine Living TV Network and Voom’s Equator HD. MHP inked a deal with NGC that includes …