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LOS ANGELES, February 7: Cookie Jar Entertainment has appointed Josette Bonte to the newly created position of VP of digital media. Based in Cookie Jar’s Los Angeles offices, Bonte will report to Ken Locker, the senior VP of digital media. …

ALVISO/SEATTLE, February 7: TiVo has teamed up with Amazon.com for a soon-to-be-launched service that will allow subscribers to rent and purchase movies and television shows from the Amazon Unbox download platform and download them directly to a TiVo box for …

SALT LAKE CITY, February 7: Move Networks, which facilitates the provision of long-form video over the Internet, has received $11.3 million in first-round venture capital funding. This funding round, led by Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, will be used to expand …

MIAMI, February 7: Sony Pictures Television International (SPTI) have reached a deal for SPTI Advertising Sales, Latin America, to handle advertising sales for HBO and Cinemax in Brazil, the only territory where both channels air advertising. Headquartered in Miami, SPTI …

LONDON/NEW YORK, February 7: Nickelodeon has partnered with a range of animation producers from around the world to develop five projects that will comprise Nickelodeon’s first-ever international development slate: Hiro, Oasis, Bacon and Bunk, Super Charlie and Super Lauren and …

NEW YORK, February 7: Sesame Workshop is partnering with NDR and Ki.Ka in Germany and Five’s preschool block Milkshake! in the U.K. to produce two seasons of The Adventures of Bert and Ernie, a claymation spin on two of Sesame …

PALO ALTO, February 7: Facebook, a California-based social networking site, and Comcast Interactive Media’s Ziddio.com, a multiplatform user-generated video site, have partnered to allow Facebook users to create and share user-generated videos and possibly be a part of a new …

NEW YORK, February 7: Despite revenue growth of 18 percent, News Corporation’s second quarter profits dropped 23.5 percent to $822 million from $1.08 billion last year, when the company recorded a one-time gain of $381 million. The company delivered consolidated …

NEW YORK, February 7: Nickelodeon’s new mockumentary series The Naked Brothers Band reached a total of 4.7 million viewers on February 3, making it the network’s highest-rated series premiere with kids 6-11 since the launch of Caitlin’s Way in 2000. …

MUNICH, February 7: Germany’s Commission on Concentration in the Media (KEK) has cleared the purchase of ProSiebenSat.1 Media by the private equity firms Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co (KKR) and Permira. The greenlight from the German competition authorities follows yesterday’s …