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NEW YORK, March 8: According to the Financial Times, News Corporation is in “active negotiations” with other content owners to license titles that it would distribute through its social networking site MySpace. Peter Levinsohn, the president of Fox Interactive Media, …

LONDON, March 8: Andrew Hall has been appointed to the newly-created role of senior VP of legal at NBC Universal International, effective immediately. In his new role, Hall will lead legal strategic corporate initiatives for NBC Universal International, including coordinating …

NEW YORK, March 8: CBS Corporation has taken its first step towards setting up a film unit, naming former Paramount Pictures executive VP Bruce Tobey as COO of the CBS Feature Films division. In addition to being charged with establishing …

EL SEGUNDO, March 8: DIRECTV has promoted Derek Chang to executive VP of content strategy and development and Dan Hartman to senior VP of programming acquisition. In his new role, Chang will oversee all programming strategy, development and acquisitions for …

LOS ANGELES/MUNICH, March 7: Private equity firms KKR and Permira have competed their purchase of German Media Partners’ majority interest in ProSiebenSat.1 Media. The holding company Lavena Holding 4 GmbH now owns approximately 88 percent of the voting common stock …

TORONTO, March 7: CHUM Television will deliver content from its MuchMusic, SPACE and FashionTelevision channels to the new broadband content platform Joost. “CHUM has always been on the front lines of the multiplatform experience,” said Roma Khanna, the SVP of …

NEW YORK, March 7: Private equity firm Palladium Equity Partners has made an investment in Todobebe, which produces the Spanish-language parenting show Todobebe TV that airs on Hispanic broadcaster Telemundo. Headquartered in Miami, Todobebe provides parenting information through television, radio, …

LOS ANGELES, March 7: Fox Soccer Channel and its sister network, Fox Sports en Español, have secured the exclusive U.S. English- and Spanish-language rights to Serie A Italian football matches, beginning this August and running through 2009/2010. The rights were …

LOS ANGELES, March 7: Lifetime Television has ordered production on 13 episodes of the new one-hour comedic drama series Side Order of Life, scheduled to premiere this July on the network. The new drama joins Army Wives and State of …

LONDON, March 7: BBC Worldwide has reached a deal with Wanda Films in Spain to co-produce Earth’s Great Events, a new six-part series on global climactic phenomena from the BBC Natural History Unit. The deal marks BBC’s first co-production deal …