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LONDON, September 7: KidsCo, the joint venture channel owned by Sparrowhawk Media, DIC Entertainment and Corus Entertainment’s Nelvana Enterprises, has launched across Central and Eastern Europe in Romania, Hungary, Russia, Turkey and Poland after carriage deals were secured with cable …

NEW YORK, September 7: To celebrate its fourth annual Worldwide Day of Play global initiative on September 29, Nickelodeon, along with its sister digital networks including Nicktoons Network and Nick G.A.S., will go off the air for an afternoon from …

LOS ANGELES, September 7: TLC has greenlit six one-hour episodes of a new talk show series hosted by What Not to Wear’s Stacy London, titled Fashionably Late with Stacy London, to air in a 10 p.m. slot beginning November 23. …

BURBANK, September 7: Disney Channel’s High School Musical 2, whose U.S. premiere last month became the most-watched cable telecast in history, will roll out on Disney Channels around the world beginning this weekend. The global rollout of High School Musical …

LONDON, September 7: Fireworks International will make its 22×1-hour vampire crime thriller series Blood Ties available for viewing on video on demand via Virgin Media Digital Television’s On Demand platform. Blood Ties premiered on Virgin Media’s LIVING on August 16 …

LONDON, September 7: FremantleMedia Enterprises (FME) has announced the sale of season three of The Martha Stewart Show to the CBC, which acquired a total of 180 one-hour episodes. The Martha Stewart Show spotlights Stewart’s sense of humor with celebrity-studded …

LONDON, September 7: HIT Entertainment will release the new sixth season of the children’s property Fireman Sam in high-definition CGI animation, with episodes currently in production until January 2009 for delivery beginning in May 2008. Since fully acquiring Fireman Sam …

LOS ANGELES, September 7: The multiplatform kids’ channel Kabillion experienced significant growth for the month of August, with a 32-percent gain in average weekly video-on-demand orders in the third quarter of this year, along with a new digital cable carriage …

PARIS, September 7: France’s Novavision has bagged deals with RTL Germany, FOX Italy and Air Canada for its hidden camera gags ZeZe Candid Camera. The gags in ZeZe Candid Camera are between one and three minutes in length. They are …

NEW YORK, September 6: CBS Corporation has reached an agreement to acquire SignStorey, which distributes video programming and advertising content to retail stores, for $71.5 million in cash. Upon completion of the transaction, slated for the fourth quarter of this …