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MUNICH/LONDON, January 25: TV-Loonland has secured deals for its animated short series The Owl with Swedish broadcaster SVT, South African pay-TV operator M-Net and Thailand’s UBC subsidiary Cineplex Company. The Owl is a CGI co-production between TV-Loonland, Paris-based Studio Hari …

LONDON, January 25: TVF International has signed a 25-hour output deal with Al Jazeera for a range of factual programming over the next 18 months. The package includes Glories of Islamic Art, a 3×45-minute series produced for Five, as well …

BRUSSELS, January 25: Revenues from online content purchases, including video, music and games, in Europe will hit 8.3 billion euros by 2010, a 400-percent growth over 2005, according to a study by the European Commission. "The long-awaited digital convergence is …

BRIGHTON, January 25: Architect and TV personality Charlie Luxton and supermodel Jodie Kidd are on board for Electric Sky Productions’ latest projects, What the Window Washer Saw and Fashion Avenue respectively. What The Window Washer Saw is a 10×30-minute series …

LONDON, January 25: While attending the World Economic Forum in Davos, BSkyB’s chief executive, James Murdoch, dismissed media speculation that he is gearing up to leave the British satellite platform for a position at the News Corporation headquarters in New …

NEW YORK, January 25: Loral Space & Communications has won a jury verdict worth $51 million in its suit against Rainbow DBS Holdings, a subsidiary of Cablevision Systems Corporation. The suit stems from a 2001 deal in which Loral agreed …

MADRID, January 25: Spanish broadcaster Antena 3 has inked a three-year drama and entertainment production deal with local production outfit Globomedia. Globomedia will work exclusively for Antena 3 for the next three years, despite the fact that Globomedia’s parent company, …

LOS ANGELES, January 25: The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California has granted a subpoena, served to YouTube by Twentieth Century Fox, seeking the identity of a user who uploaded illegal copies of 24 and The Simpsons. …

BRUSSELS, January 25: The European Commission has ruled that subsidies issued by the Italian government for digital TV decoders in 2004 and 2005 violated European union rules and that broadcasters who benefited have to repay the funds. The Commission, however, …

PARIS, January 25: Some 900 programming, acquisitions, production and distribution executives from Central and Eastern Europe are expected at the 15th edition of the annual DISCOP content market, taking place from June 20 to June 22 at the Sofitel Atrium …