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NEW YORK, February 20: Lightworks Producing Group has inked a partnership deal with the environmentally conscious website Ecorazzi.com for Ecorazzi.tv, a weekly television series dedicated to news on celebrities who support environmental and humanitarian causes. Two-time Emmy Award winner, veteran …

ATLANTA, February 20: NASCAR.com, a division of Turner Sports New Media, will make video highlights of this year’s Daytona 500 available for download on Apple’s iTunes Store the day after the race. The expanded highlights, which are available for $1.99, …

LONDON, February 20: Warner Bros. will deliver more than 500 episodes from several current and classic dramas and comedies, including Nip/Tuck, The OC, Friends and ER, to Virgin Media’s TV-on-demand (TVoD) service. The deal will make the Warner Bros. content …

VANCOUVER, February 20: France 3 has added Nerd Corps Entertainment’s 3-D animated series Storm Hawks, targeted at kids aged 6 to 11, to its fall lineup. A total of 52 half-hour episodes are currently in production by Nerd Corps Entertainment. …

NEW YORK, February 20: Nickelodeon yesterday launched ME:TV, a new programming block, airing Monday through Friday from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m., featuring user-generated content. Viewers can visit www.nick.com/metv to submit their own original content, and then watch, rate or …

SYDNEY, February 20: Kanal 2 Estonia has acquired from Southern Star International seasons 16 to 20 of Home & Away and seasons 4 to 8 of McLeod’s Daughters, as well as securing a five-year output deal with the Australian distributor. …

PARIS, February 20: Jana Bennett, the director of BBC Vision, and Ashley Highfield, the director of future media and technology at the BBC, will give a joint keynote address at MIPTV featuring MILIA. The pair is scheduled to open MIPTV’s …

AMSTERDAM/LONDON, February 20: Jetix Europe has acquired the European pay-TV rights to the adventure comedy Iggy Arbuckle, produced by Blueprint Entertainment in association with National Geographic Kids’ Entertainment, for launch across its network this August. Jetix Europe has also acquired …

TORONTO, February 20: The Banff World Television Festival, taking place from June 10 to 13 at the Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel in Banff, Alberta, has added three more speakers to its Master Class sessions: CSI’s Carol Mendelsohn, documentary filmmaker Antony …

BUENOS AIRES, February 20: Telefe International has shored up a range of new deals on key titles like Montecristo, and has added a new title to its slate: Romeo and Juliet, a telenovela adaptation by Wild Angel’s Raul Lecouna of …