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ROME, February 14: The History Channel has partnered with U.K.-based Slitherine Software and Italian-based Black Bean Games for the worldwide rollout of a new video game, The History Channel Great Battles of Rome, in the second quarter of this year. …

MINNEAPOLIS, February 14: Navarre Corporation’s FUNimation Entertainment will make some of its top-rated anime series available for immediate purchase and download on Apple’s iTunes Store starting from today. The anime series available for download include: Desert Punk, a stark and …

HARRINGTON PARK, February 14: Janson Media is offering Ocean Men: Extreme Dive, a 40-minute documentary about freedivers, on the international market. Ocean Men focuses on the story of two world champion freedivers, Cuban-born Pipin Ferreras and Italian-born Umberto Pelizzari, who …

TORONTO, February 14: Cookie Jar Entertainment has named Cathy Parks as VP of retail and promotions and Brian Gladman as director of consumer products for Canada. Parks, based in Los Angeles, will report to Kelly Elwood, the senior VP of …

MUNICH, February 14: Georg Kofler, the chief executive of Premiere, has sold more than 11.3 million shares in the German platform, wire reports indicate, representing about 12 percent of the company. According to the Associated Press, Kofler sold the shares …

NEW YORK, February 14: DIRECTV and The Nielsen Company are working together to develop a new system for measuring the usage of interactive television services. Nielsen will use aggregated and anonymous clickstream data from a new television measurement panel of …

LOS ANGELES, February 14: The arts network Ovation TV has secured carriage on DIRECTV, nearly tripling its subscriber base. The deal comes about six months since the cable network was acquired by a consortium led by Hubbard Media Group as …

NEW YORK, February 14: Viacom subsidiaries VH1 and BET are partnering on a one-hour pilot for the ensemble drama Wifey, set in the world of hip hop, which, if greenlit, would premiere simultaneously on both networks. Written and executive produced …

LONDON, February 14: Marc Conneely, the chief executive of Wedding TV, which recently launched on BSkyB in the U.K., tells World Screen Newsflash about the channel’s programming strategy and expansion plans, with rollouts slated for Russia, Poland and Romania by …

SANTA MONICA, February 14: Boosted by the success of its late-night Participation TV show Playmania, GSN has launched a programming block of the same name that will now incorporate two separate live interactive shows. The new Playmania programming block will …