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NEW YORK, December 11: 4Kids Entertainment has launched two new subsidiaries, one targeting the trading card market and the other geared to developing multi-platform games. 4Kids will be the majority owner of the trading card company, TC Digital Games, marking …

BRISTOL, December 8: Aardman is partnering with Egmont Publishing to release a range of books based on Shaun the Sheep and Wallace and Gromit. Egmont has acquired the publishing rights to the two properties for the U.K., Eire and the …

VANCOUVER, December 8: Studio B Productions is working on a new animated short, Clancy with the Puck, which will be accompanied by an illustrated children’s book from Raincoast Books that is set for a North American rollout next fall. Created …

NEW YORK, December 8: VOOM HD Networks has reached a deal with British producer/distributor Electric Sky for two high-definition factual series that will launch in the second quarter of next year. Ultimate Tourist Scams is a co-production for the Equator …

COPENHAGEN, December 8: Heino Deckert, the MD of Germany’s Deckert Distribution and MA.JA.DE Productions, has been elected as the new chairman of the European Documentary Network (EDN). Deckert has taken over the position from Ike Bertels, who served on the …

TORONTO, December 8: Diane Williamson has joined marblemedia as its VP of interactive. Williamson will lead the company’s interactive efforts and oversee a group of in-house designers and programmers. She will manage and help develop future projects across all digital …

BEIJING, December 8: Chinese authorities have banned any new foreign investment in television and film companies, according to a report in the Financial Times. In an interview with the FT, Zhu Hong of the State Administration of Radio, Film and …

NYON, December 8: UEFA has unveiled new broadcast deals in the U.S., Asia, the Middle East and Latin America for EURO 2008, which is being held June 7 to June 29, 2008, in Austria and Switzerland. "We will have [a …

WATERBURY, December 8: American teens spend more than 72 hours per week online, on their mobile phones, watching television, listening to music or playing video games, according to the Harrison Group’s recently released VNU Teen Trend Report, which surveyed 1,000 …

LONDON, December 8: British media regulator Ofcom has said that ten percent of U.K. households will not have access to DTT service Freeview’s full suite of channels following the 2012 analogue switch off. Three of the six Freeview “bundles” will …