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LAS VEGAS, January 10: Speaking at Citigroup’s annual media, entertainment and telecommunications conference in Las Vegas, Peter Chernin, the president and COO of News Corporation, said that the company is working hard not to “Fox-ify” or “screw up” the popular …

LOS ANGELES, January 10: David Heath has been promoted to VP of program sales for Canada at Twentieth Century Fox/Incendo Television Distribution. A joint venture of Twentieth Century Fox Television Distribution and Incendo Media, Fox/Incendo licenses English- and French-language programs …

BURBANK, January 10: Warner Home Video has unveiled its “Total Hi Def” disc, which plays the HD DVD format on one side and the Blu-ray Disc format on the other. The disc was presented at the Consumer Electronics Show in …

LAS VEGAS, January 10: Among the highlights of the NATPE conference slate are two sessions to be moderated by Anna Carugati, the group editorial director of World Screen: one on telenovelas around the world, and the other, produced with the …

LOS ANGELES, January 10: Twentieth Television is working with FremantleMedia North America on Temptation, a half-hour game show strip for the U.S. syndication market based on the format Sale of the Century. The show has been cleared for a fall …

TORONTO, January 10: Driven by gains in its broadcasting division, Corus Entertainment has posted a 7-percent rise in revenues, to C$209.2 million, and a 17 percent increase in net profit to C$36.7 million. "The positive momentum of last year has …

LOS ANGELES, January 10: Twentieth Century Fox has inked a deal with Israeli cable platform HOT to make both new releases and classic library films available to subscribers on an on-demand basis. This is Fox’s first video on demand deal …

LONDON, January 10: Via a deal between BBC Worldwide Australasia and TVNZ, more than 40 hours of drama, natural history and factual titles will air on New Zealand’s TV ONE and TV2 this year. The package deal is led by …

NEW YORK, January 10: The online brand Heavy.com, whose male-skewing content is being rolled out globally by Fireworks International, has closed a $20 million financing round from Polaris Venture Partners. This is the second round of funding from Polaris, which …

NEW YORK/LOS ANGELES, January 10: MTV Networks has entered into a deal with Amp'd Mobile to create and distribute original made-for-mobile episodic series that will appear exclusively on Amp'd. The original programming will appear on MTV Networks' channels on Amp'd …