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LONDON, July 23: Channel 4 is working with Emap to create a leading music TV provider, with the British broadcaster acquiring 50 percent of Emap’s music TV business, Box Television, for £28 million. The joint venture will operate and expand …

SINGAPORE, July 23: StarHub has partnered with Hong Kong’s Goal TV and Ten Sports in Dubai for the launch of Football Channel, a new sports channel dedicated to 24-hour Barclays Premier League programming. The new channel will be available to …

NEW YORK, July 23: A&E Television Networks (AETN) has reached a deal to launch two made-for-mobile channels, A&E Mobile and The History Channel Mobile, in the U.S. on mobile content provider MobiTV. Available on the mobile channels will be acclaimed …

LONDON/PARIS, July 23: Nearly six months since its launch, the on-demand Japanese animation channel GONG is now available to 20 million individuals via the Internet or mobile in 36 countries across Europe and North America. On the peer-to-peer-based Internet TV …

NEW YORK, July 23: 4Kids Entertainment has secured the television broadcast and merchandising rights from Nelvana Enterprises for the 2-D animated action-adventure series Di-Gata Defenders. The series will premiere on July 28 on the Saturday morning programming block 4Kids TV …

PARIS, July 23: Taffy Entertainment has sold eight children’s titles to key broadcasters and cable channels throughout Scandinavia, including a package of five series to free-TV channel NRK in Norway. NRK has acquired Dive Olly Dive!, SamSam, ToddWorld, Insectoscope and …

LONDON, July 23: BKN has announced the fall DVD release schedules for a range of its kids programming in the U.K. and North America, and has appointed Adrian Ball as sales director to support the launches. Ball will be based …

MUMBAI, July 23: Swati Shetty will join Disney-ABC International Television (Asia Pacific) as the director for India, replacing Amit Malhotra, who was promoted in June to regional sales director for pan Asia, India and Singapore. Shetty will take up new …

NEW YORK, July 20: Sumner Redstone, the executive chairman of Viacom and CBS Corporation, is said to be feuding with his daughter Shari, the non executive vice chair of both companies, sparking speculation that she will leave the company. Shari …

NEW YORK, July 20: Dieter von Holtzbrinck is stepping down from the Dow Jones & Company board, citing concerns with the impact a sale to News Corporation would have on the company’s “journalistic values.” According to reports, von Holtzbrinck abstained …