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MIAMI, July 26: Venevision International Films has reached a deal to distribute a large selection of Spanish-language movies through the digital video download service Amazon Unbox, starting today. Customers can access the Venevision titles through the new “Spanish Language" section …

NEW YORK, July 26: Disney Channel’s High School Musical 2 will be made available on Verizon’s FiOS TV's video on demand library prior its worldwide premiere on August 17. Verizon also will launch a public sweepstakes in the Kids area …

SINGAPORE, July 26: Asian content management company Six-Six-Eight (6-6-8) and preschool channel provider Zebra TV Channels have launched Luli, the 24/7 channel targeted at babies, in Singapore on SingTel’s new pay-TV platform MioTV. Luli is aimed at babies from a …

TOKYO, July 26: At Sony Corporation, profit for the first quarter doubled to $540 million, on revenues of $16.1 billion, a 13.3 percent rise on Q1 2006, driven in part by strong sales of the company’s digital cameras, as well …

LONDON, July 26: In a two-year distribution deal, Belgian public broadcaster VRT will have an exclusive first look at Channel 4 International’s programming catalogue, and has agreed to acquire a minimum of 45 hours of programming each year for representation …

WASHINGTON, July 26: According to the results of a survey from the Pew Internet & American Life Project, the use of online video continues to proliferate through social networking features, with 57 percent of online video viewers sharing links with …

NEW YORK, July 26: KPI, a unit of Lightworks Producing Group (LPG), has been granted exclusive television access to document the newly discovered sunken Roman forts of Meols, on the north Wirral Coast off England, with diver and deep sea …

BURBANK, July 26: The Walt Disney Company has announced that it will ban cigarette smoking in all of its branded family-friendly features, and will “discourage” the practice in all other movie titles from the studio, including those from Touchstone and …

LA PLAINE SAINT DENIS, July 26: AB International Distribution has unveiled two highlights for its MIPCOM slate: the 8×52-minute thriller The Avignon Prophecy and the 12×52-minute detective series The Rookies. The Avignon Prophecy will air on France 2 beginning in …

PHILADELPHIA, July 26: Comcast Corporation’s triple-play bundle helped drive its second quarter results, with revenues up 31 percent to $7.7 billion and net profit up 28 percent to $588 million. Comcast Cable’s revenues were up 12 percent to $7.3 billion. …