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NEW YORK, August 8: Cartoon Network Enterprises, the global branding and merchandising arm of Cartoon Network, has reached a two-year deal with E.S. Originals for a range of products, including bags, shoes and watches, based on the Emmy Award-winning original …

LONDON/BANGKOK/HONG KONG, August 8: MTV Networks and the MTV Europe Foundation, a registered charity in the U.K., have launched MTV EXIT (End Exploitation and Trafficking) across the Asia Pacific, in a bid to raise awareness about human trafficking. The youth-focused …

ATLANTA, August 8: Cartoon Network and VIZ Media have announced a new slate of action and anime programming for their free broadband ad-supported streaming video site Toonami Jetstream, which celebrated its one-year anniversary in July. Toonami Jetstream is the online …

LOS ANGELES, August 8: Si TV, the U.S. English-language cable network targeted to the 18 to 34 demographic in the Hispanic market, has partnered with Maria Perez-Brown and her production company, Dorado Entertainment, to develop and produce multiplatform content. Perez-Brown …

LUXEMBOURG, August 8: Users of the online telephony service Skype can now share videos with each other, via the company’s new partnerships with Dailymotion and Metacafe. Skype 3.5 for Windows lets users download videos from these sites and add them …

NEW YORK, August 8: According to a new report released by private equity firm Veronis Suhler Stevenson (VSS), total communications spending expanded in the 2001-2006 period to a record $885.2 billion, driven by gains in spending on alternative advertising, as …

LONDON, August 8: ITV has posted a 5-percent fall in advertising revenues for the first half of this year to £717 million, with total revenues down 7 percent to £1,004 million, resulting in a 31-percent fall in net profit to …

LONDON, August 8: Virgin Media announced its second quarter results today, revealing a loss of 70,300 subscribers in its cable segment, with 40,000 of those having left because of the cable operator’s dispute with BSkyB. Virgin Media’s ongoing spat with …

BEIJING, August 8: NBC Universal’s various assets are gearing up for more than 3,600 hours of coverage of next year’s Olympics in Beijing, 1,000 more hours than the combined total of every Summer Olympics ever televised in the U.S. The …

SILVER SPRING, August 8: For the three months that ended June 30, 2007, Discovery Communications recorded an 11-percent increase in revenues to $812 million, led by a 10-percent increase in ad revenues. The company also recorded a 4-percent rise in …