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NEW YORK, January 31: Profits at Time Warner rose by 35 percent in the fourth quarter to $1.75 billion, while full-year net income more than doubled to $6.55 billion. “I’m delighted that 2006 proved to be a good year for …

LOS ANGELES, January 31: The Africa Channel has promoted Shirley Neal to the newly created position of executive VP of programming and production. Neal, who has been VP of production and development at the channel since June 2005, will begin …

PARIS, January 31: Vivendi Universal’s 2006 revenues rose 2.9 percent to 20.04 billion euros, while fourth quarter revenues were up 1.2 percent to 5.55 billion euros. Canal+ Group’s 2006 revenues amounted to 3.63 billion euros, a 7.7 percent gain. Revenues …

EL SEGUNDO, January 31: The DIRECTV Group has reached a deal to acquire Darlene Investments’ 14.1 percent equity interest in DIRECTV Latin America for $325 million in cash. In addition to giving DIRECTV full equity ownership of DIRECTV Latin America, …

LONDON, January 30: MercuryMedia International has inked a deal to distribute PBS content to airlines around the world through its in-flight distribution arm. PBS titles available for participating airlines include Texas Ranch House, Ken Burns’ Jazz, Jean Michel Cousteau’s Ocean …

STOCKHOLM, January 30: Talpa Scandinavia has produced a new format, Limbo, based on the number game of the same name from Svenska Spel, the Swedish National Lottery, for broadcast on TV4. Limbo will air on the Swedish commercial network TV4 …

HONG KONG, January 30: The Cable & Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (CASBAA) will stage the seventh annual CASBAA Satellite Industry Forum in Singapore on June 18th. The forum traditionally acts as a curtain raiser for the CommunicAsia and BroadcastAsia …

LONDON, January 30: The British arm of the digital entertainment outfit Buongiorno has acquired the mobile content production firm Inventa for £1 million. Inventa was co-founded by the British digital marketing agency Profero, the marketing group Slice and BBC Radio …

SAN ANTONIO, January 30: A slate of channels from A&E Television Networks (AETN) will be made available on the AT&T U-verse TV lineup, along with a raft of video on demand programming. The deal covers carriage for A&E Network, The …

CHATSWORTH, January 30: Image Entertainment has secured the DVD and digital download rights from NBC Universal Television Distribution to 14 titles originally produced for the SCI FI Channel’s signature Saturday night movie franchise. In a multi-year agreement with NBC Universal …