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BURBANK, February 14: Disney Channel viewers across the world had their say on certain elements that would appear in the sequel to High School Musical, with a total of 45 million votes cast in the interactive online poll “High School …

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 …

LONDON, February 13: Ofcom has begun its review of kids’ programming on the U.K.’s public-service broadcasters. The Ofcom review will look at the BBC, ITV, Channel 4, S4C and Five, assessing “the availability within those services of a suitable quantity …

LONDON, February 13: Random House Children’s Books has acquired the worldwide publishing rights to S4C’s preschool animation Hana’s Helpline, with the first books from the series launching in the spring. The deal with S4C International includes all English rights for …

ENGLEWOOD, February 13: Liberty Media Corporation has agreed to exchange its stake in CBS Corporation for a TV station in Green Bay, Wisconsin, and $170 million in cash. Liberty Media holds about 7.6 million CBS common shares—equivalent to just 1 …

NEW YORK, February 13: On behalf of Rainbow Media, London-based iD Distribution has inked deals to bring a range of Women’s Entertainment (WE tv) content into markets around the world. Among the latest round of sales of WE tv programs …

NEW YORK, February 13: Garth Ancier, the former chairman of The WB Television Network, has joined BBC Worldwide Americas as its president of U.S. operations, a newly created post. Ancier will be responsible for developing the BBC brand in the …

BURBANK, February 13: Marc Gareton, formerly senior VP of business decision support for Warner Bros. Home Video, has been promoted to the senior VP of international, Europe, at Warner Bros. Digital Distribution. In this newly created post, Gareton, based in …