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VANCOUVER, October 25: Omni Film Productions was given the greenlight for several productions this week, including two shows for CBC: a one-hour pilot for the family series Left Coast and the two-hour documentary special West Coast Tsunami. Omni also received …

LOS ANGELES, October 25: FOX will launch the first episode of the fourth season of The O.C. on Myspace.com and on the Fox Television Station Group's MyFoxLocal websites in 24 owned-and-operated markets this Thursday, one week ahead of the television …

ATLANTA, October 25: Steve Koonin, who oversees TNT and TBS, has been tapped to fill the newly created post of president of Turner Entertainment Networks, adding TCM and Court TV to his mandate. Reporting to Koonin are Marc Juris, Court …

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 …

NEW YORK, October 24: Nickelodeon's 24-hour animation channel, Nicktoons Network, has added a range of its original content to the iTunes Store, including Skyland, which doesn’t premiere on the network until November. Beginning today, four episodes of Skyland will be …

MUNICH, October 24: Jan Mojto’s classical music station Unitel Classica has inked a carriage deal in Spain, where it will be available on the IPTV platform Imagenio. Spain is the fifth market to come on board for the service, following …

WEST PALM BEACH, October 24: Dean M. Goodman has stepped down as the president and COO of ION Media Networks, which operates the i network (formerly PAX TV), as well as from the board of directors, “to pursue other interests,” …

NEW YORK, October 24: Rick Rodriguez, whose ten years at Discovery Communications included stints at Discovery Kids and the Travel Channel, has been tapped as the president and general manager of qubo, the Spanish- and English-language kids’ service that airs …

JAKARTA, October 24: Globo TV International’s hit novela Terra Nostra is set to launch on Dori Media’s Televiva Vision 2 channel in Indonesia. The show fills the Monday to Saturday 7 p.m. slot, replacing another Globo title, Family Ties. The …