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NEW YORK/WEST PALM BEACH, October 25: RHI Entertainment will serve as the exclusive programming supplier to ION Media Network’s flagship i network on Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights—totaling 12 hours of content per week—for a two-year period beginning July 1, …

AMSTERDAM, October 25: Eyeworks Entertainment has named Vincent ter Voert as its program director, effective January 1, 2007. Ter Voert will oversee the Eyeworks division with business director Jan van Beek. He has spent the last year and a half …

LONDON, October 25: Disney Channel has inked a deal to provide its content to Top Up TV’s DTT subscription PVR service Top UP TV Anytime. As part of the multi-year alliance, Top Up TV Anytime users will be able to …

HONG KONG, October 25: Karen Davidson has been appointed senior VP of advertising sales at STAR, reporting to Bruce A. Oltchick, the company’s executive VP of advertising sales, distribution and marketing. Based in Hong Kong, Davidson will oversee STAR’s advertising …

LOS ANGELES, October 25: Marvel Entertainment’s Marvel Studios division is working with the Vancouver-based No Equal Entertainment to develop a television series based on the comic book character Moon Knight. First introduced by Marvel Comics in the mid-1970s, Moon Knight …

MARINA DEL REY, October 25: Lionsgate has joined Universal Studios Home Entertainment in CinemaNow’s “day and date” burn-to-DVD service, allowing consumers to download features to their PCs and burn them to DVD on the same day as their retail release. …

NEW YORK, October 25: Bravo today announced the pickup of Top Hair, an eight-episode series from Reveille that sets out to find the next great hairstylist, with the winner taking home $100,000. Previously in development as Heads Up, the tentatively …

OVERLAND PARK, October 25: U.S. mobile carrier Sprint has launched Sprint Power View, a made-for-mobile sports and entertainment video programming network, offering up news, features and original programming at no additional charge. Content will be refreshed several times per day, …

MOSCOW, October 25: Rambler Media, whose core business is the provision of online and mobile content services to Russian speakers worldwide, is selling off its television station to Osgora Productions, a subsidiary of the Russian outfit Prof-Media. Rambler TV is …

HONG KONG, October 25: The Cable & Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia has launched the CASBAA Mobile Group, consisting of several of the organization’s members, including Turner Broadcasting, STAR and Nokia, that will work to further the development of mobile …