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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 …

LONDON, December 11: Sir Richard Branson is stepping up his battle to keep BSkyB from acquiring a 17.9-percent stake in ITV, calling on Alistair Darling, the U.K.’s Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, to intervene in the deal. Branson …

LONDON, December 11: Dawn Airey is stepping down as the managing director of Sky Networks at BSkyB in the spring to join the new British media company Iostar as chief executive. Airey will leave her position at Sky, which she …

LOS ANGELES, December 11: ClickStar, the broadband download venture launched by Morgan Freeman’s production company and Intel Corporation, has inked distribution deals with Sony, Universal and Warner Bros. in advance of its launch this week. ClickStar was founded by Intel …