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FRANKFURT, December 12: A consortium led by Haim Saban is expected to select the winning bidder for its 50.5 percent stake in ProSiebenSat.1 Media by Friday, wire reports indicate. Today was the deadline for bid submissions. Three offers are said …

RIO DE JANEIRO, December 12: Fashion TV has reached a deal with Globo TV International to offer its international viewers coverage of the 2007 Carnaval in Rio de Janeiro. Fashion TV, available in more than 200 markets in five continents, …

PARIS, December 12: Gerhard Zeiler, the CEO of the RTL Group, will deliver a keynote speech during MIPTV/MILIA, set for April 16 to 20 in Cannes, France. Zeiler, the MIPCOM 2004 Personality of the Year, will discuss how top networks …

PARIS/LUXEMBOURG, December 12: LUXE.TV, a cable network focused on “the world of luxury”, has tapped Lagardere Networks International to represent its HD and SD feeds in Central and Eastern Europe, Scandinavia, Spain, Portugal, Israel and Africa. The channel joins a …

BEIJING, December 12: China Mobile and China Unicom have inked deals to bring content from state broadcaster CCTV to their subscribers’ handsets, Dow Jones reported today. The news report cited Xi Guohua, the vice minister at the Minister of Information …

SINGAPORE, December 12: FremantleMedia Enterprises has closed deals with broadcasters in Korea, Singapore, Malaysia and the Philippines following its participation at the Asia TV Forum in Singapore. ABS-CBN in the Philippines opted for a raft of Jamie Oliver programming for …

NEW YORK, December 12: Viacom’s MTV Networks and BET Networks have renewed carriage for all of their current services available on Time Warner Cable, and have expanded their agreements to include MTV World, LOGO, MTV Tr3s, MHD and a range …

BURBANK, December 12: Warner Home Video (WHV) and 2entertain Video (2EV) have entered into a new distribution agreement to deliver home entertainment programming from the BBC and other content providers to retailers within the U.S. and Canada. WHV will serve …

SINGAPORE, December 12: Deals worth $47.1 million were concluded at the Asia Media Festival—encompassing the Asia Television Forum, Asia Film Market & Conference and Asia Animation Conference—a 42 percent gain on last year. This year’s market, which took place from …

LOS ANGELES, December 12: Next month, Playboy TV in the U.S. will premiere Naked Happy Girls, a 13×30-minute documentary series that follows erotic photojournalist Andrew Einhorn as he convinces women in New York City to pose nude for him. The …