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Globo Offers Brazilian Fare to Asian Broadcasters

November 30, 2006

SINGAPORE, November 30: Globo TV International is at the Asia Television Forum this week with three novelas—America, Student’s Heart and Capital Sin—and one mini-series, Seven Women. “Asia is a strategic market for TV Globo International,” said Rafael Corrêa, the sales …

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LAT TV Launches “Cybernovela”

November 30, 2006

HOUSTON, November 30: U.S. Hispanic broadcaster LAT TV (LatinAmerica Broadcasting) has launched AlamoHeightsSA, a telenovela designed for multiplatform broadcast. The show, from Alamo Heights SA Holdings, is being billed as the industry’s first “royalty-free, cross-cultural, Tex-Mex cybernovela.” Available in Spanish …

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Channel 4 Exec Joins FremantleMedia

November 30, 2006

LONDON, November 30: FremantleMedia Licensing Worldwide (FLW), the licensing division of FremantleMedia, has made a series of new appointments and promotions within its U.K. licensing team. Robert Marsh has been named the VP of interactive and telephony for the U.K., …

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BSkyB’s Murdoch Lashes Out at BBC and Regulators

November 30, 2006

LONDON, November 30: In a speech hosted by the British media regulator Ofcom, James Murdoch, the chief executive of BSkyB, criticized the British broadcasting industry, the BBC and Ofcom itself. Murdoch appealed for less regulation and a free market. “The …

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Liberty Global to Sell Belgian Cable Platform

November 30, 2006

DENVER, November 30: Liberty Global has entered into a non-binding letter of intent to sell its Belgian cable business to Telenet Group Holding—in which Liberty owns a 28.07 percent controlling interest—for 187 million euros ($246 million). The closing of the …

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NBC Showcases Midseason Lineup

November 30, 2006

BURBANK, November 30: NBC’s midseason schedule will see the launch of new shows like Paul Haggis’s The Black Donnellys and the talent search series Grease: You’re the One That I Want, as well as the return of The Apprentice and …

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BitTorrent Expands Content Offerings

November 30, 2006

SAN FRANCISCO, November 30: BitTorrent has announced a slew of deals to ramp up its digital download offerings, including agreements with 20th Century Fox, MTV Networks, Lionsgate, Paramount and Starz Media. Deals have also been signed with cable network G4, …

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Singapore’s MDA Announces International Partnerships

November 29, 2006

SINGAPORE, November 29: In its bid to expand the reach of Singaporean produced content around the world, the Media Development Authority today announced alliances with Canada’s National Film Board (NFB), Italy’s Finanziaria Laziale de Sviluppo (FILAS) and Thailand’s Software Promotion …

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MDA, Korean Broadcasting Institute to Fund HD Titles

November 29, 2006

SINGAPORE, November 29: The Media Development Authority of Singapore is teaming with the Korean Broadcasting Institute (KBI) to co-finance three HDTV co-production projects by Singaporean and Korean producers, it was announced at the Asia TV Forum today. The three co-production …