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SINGAPORE, January 30: StarHub Digital Cable will launch five new channels on February 1, including FX, taking the platform’s number of offerings to a total of 102. StarHub’s “Family Plus” tier customers will be able to access the new channels …

LOS ANGELES, January 30: Kevin MacLellan, E! Networks' senior VP of international, has been upped to the newly created role of president of Comcast Entertainment Group, International, a new division created to oversee Comcast’s international entertainment properties. MacLellan’s new role …

ATLANTA, January 30: CNN International has teamed up with London-based Journeyman Pictures to launch World’s Untold Stories, a new weekly 30-minute documentary strand launching on February 17. The series will be broadcast each weekend to more than 200 million households …

LONDON/NEW YORK, January 30: The History Channel will debut in Scandinavia on February 1, reaching approximately one million households in Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland. The deal was inked with Norway’s Canal Digital by The History Channel U.K., a joint …

NEW YORK/MUMBAI, January 30: U.S. private equity firm Blackstone has made a $275 million investment in India’s Ushodaya Enterprises (UEL), parent company of the South Indian broadcasting group Eenadu TV. The investment—India’s largest ever private-equity deal—is expected to give Blackstone …

LOS ANGELES, January 30: Gail Berman and Lloyd Braun, two former network TV executives who were most recently seen at Paramount and Yahoo!, respectively, are teaming to launch a new venture targeted to producing TV, film and online content, the …

BERLIN, January 30: Alexey Lazarenko has been named managing director for Gala Media & Film Intl., the recently founded subsidiary of Germany’s A Company Consulting & Licensing that is focused on distributing titles to the Russian and CIS markets. Lazarenko …

GENEVA, January 30: In Geneva, Switzerland, today, Bob Wright, the chairman and CEO of NBC Universal and the vice chairman of GE, addressed the Third Global Congress on Combating Counterfeiting and Piracy, organized by the World Intellectual Property Organization. Read …

UNTERFOEHRING, January 30: EM.Entertainment has expanded its distribution team with the appointments of Corinna Renkawitz and Nils Juhl to senior sales executive positions. The recent additions to EM.Entertainment’s distribution team are part of the company’s ongoing restructuring program. Renkawitz, as …

LOS ANGELES, January 30: Former Classic Media executive Sandrine Pechels de Saint Sardos has been appointed as the VP of distribution for Bejuba! Entertainment. Reporting to Tatiana Kober, Bejuba!’s president, Pechels de Saint Sardos, based in New York, will assist …