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NEW YORK/SEATTLE, July 18: MTV Networks' Nickelodeon Kids and Family Group says it is committed to investing $100 million over the next two years in the development, distribution and creation of casual online gaming titles, sites and platforms. “Across all …

BASKING RIDGE/SAN DIEGO, July 18: Internet TV operator Veoh has launched a dedicated channel on the Verizon Wireless V CAST service featuring the best of its content library, culled from 85,000 video publishers. The “Best of Veoh” video collection on …

HONG KONG, July 18: STAR has formed a joint venture with DIRECTV and BSkyB to invest in the Championship Gaming Series (CGS), an international professional video gaming league. In Asia, CGS will host a series of qualifying events in China, …

NEW YORK, July 18: Sundance Channel has ordered second seasons of the eco-friendly title Big Ideas for a Small Planet, as well as the interstitial series Eco-Biz and Ecoists, and has acquired the U.S. rights to the second season of …

WASHINGTON D.C., July 17: A Journey to Darfur, the documentary chronicling George Clooney’s visit with his journalist father Nick Clooney to the Sudan border, will be released on DVD today, by AmericanLife TV Network. All proceeds from the sale of …

MONTREAL, July 17: The popular television franchise The Price is Right will be launched as a video game across all major gaming platforms, per a multi-year, exclusive agreement signed by Ludia, publisher and developer of casual video games, and FremantleMedia. …

SÃO PAULO, July 17: Globo TV International’s telenovela Cabocla has launched in the U.S. on the Miami-based channel GEN-TV. The telenovela premiered yesterday night at 9 p.m. on the channel. GEN-TV is currently broadcasting two other Globo TV International productions, …

LOS ANGELES, July 17: Four series from manga entertainment distributor TOKYOPOP launch on MySpace this week, with new episodes being added weekly for online streaming. The shows are available in a TOKYOPOP-branded section on the social networking site. "TOKYOPOP is …

LONDON, July 17: Mark Freeland has been named the head of comedy for BBC’s Vision Studios, replacing Jon Plowman, who last month announced that he was stepping down after 14 years to return to producing shows for the broadcaster. Freeland’s …

ALEXANDRIA/NEW YORK, July 17: A new study from The Nielsen Company for the Cable & Telecommunications Association for Marketing (CTAM) estimates that 81 million people in the U.S. watch broadband video at home or at work, up 16 percent from …