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ATLANTA, September 5: Cartoon Network New Media has announced plans to launch Master Control, a 15-week multiplatform initiative that gives kids control over what shows will air in the after-school block on Cartoon Network and help build an online fan …

OTTAWA, September 4: Amberwood Entertainment has entered into an agreement with Mattel for toys and various other products based on the new 3-D-animated series RollBots. The 26×30-minute action-comedy series, aimed at children aged 6 to 11, is based on an …

PARIS, September 4: A Kind of Magic, the new animated comedy series from Xilam that is set to debut on France 3 in fall 2008, has already been picked up by Disney Channel in a host of markets, as well …

MUNICH, September 4: SevenOne International has announced that the German telenovela Love is in the Air has premiered in Latvia on LNT in a daily 7:30 p.m. slot. Inara Kraukle, the acquisitions manager at LNT, said of the pickup: "Traditionally, …

HILVERSUM, September 4: Endemol Polska’s Big Brother 4.1 launched on TV4 over the weekend and delivered a more than five-fold increase in audience share in its time slot. In comparison to the channel average of less than two percent for …

LONDON, September 4: Turner Broadcasting System (TBS) Europe will launch Nuts TV on Britain’s Freeview channel 42 on September 12, offering comedic live and originally produced content for young male viewers. Inspired by IPC’s men’s weekly magazine, the channel will …

MEXICO CITY, September 4: In a deal brokered by its international sales agent Comarex, TV Azteca has licensed its telenovela Love Under Construction to Caracol’s free-TV channel for premiere in Colombia tomorrow at 5:15 p.m. Love Under Construction has already …

LONDON, September 4: A new report from Screen Digest predicts that the online movie distribution market will be worth $1.3 billion in the U.S. and Western Europe by 2011. According to Online Movie Strategies: Competitive Review and Market Outlook‚ the …

BERLIN/LONDON/NEW YORK, September 4: Ulrich W. Klein has been tapped to fill the position of Nickelodeon and Viacom Consumer Products’ (NVCP) VP of consumer products for Germany, based in Berlin. While leading the consumer products team in Germany, Klein is …

MOSCOW, September 4: Russian broadcaster CTC Media has made a $65 million cash investment to take a stake in Kazakhstan’s Channel 31, and plans to launch a new station in Uzbekistan. In Kazakhstan, CTC Media gains a 20-percent interest in …