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PARIS, December 5: TF1 has acquired a 33.5-percent stake in French channel operator and distribution outfit the AB Group for 230 million euros. Claude Berda who owns the remaining 66.5 percent interest, will remain chairman of the company, which owns …

NEW YORK, December 5: The creative and management teams of the preschool services Noggin and Nick Jr. are being combined under the Nickelodeon Preschool umbrella, it was announced today. The new preschool team will be led by Brown Johnson, who …

LOS ANGELES, December 5: Producer Joseph Medawar has been sentenced to a year in prison after taking millions of dollars from people who believed he was producing a government-backed drama about the Department of Homeland Security. Charges were filed against …

LOS ANGELES, December 5: Bob Pittman, former COO of the then AOL Time Warner, has joined the board of directors of Spot Runner, the Internet-based advertising agency. Since leaving Time Warner in 2002 after the AOL merger, Pittman founded an …

TORONTO, December 5: Titanic’s James Cameron has re-teamed with Simcha Jacobovici, with whom he worked on The Exodus Decoded, for the Biblical docudrama The Tomb for Discovery Channel in the U.S. and VisionTV in Canada. Production recently wrapped on the …

PORTLAND, December 5: The PLATFORM International Animation Festival will take place for the first time from June 25 to 30 in Portland, Oregon, with sole sponsorship by Cartoon Network. The Festival program will feature premieres and retrospectives, exclusive screenings, guest …

SANTA MONICA/NEW YORK, December 5: FOX News has reached a deal to provide video content on Yahoo! Finance, teaming with the portal for a co-branded video initiative, FOX Business Now. The initiative includes nine two-minute market reports each weekday between …

LONDON, December 5: Fireworks International has launched a new media division, tapping former Sony Pictures Television International executive Jonathan Ford as VP of digital distribution. At SPTI, Ford was director of digital initiatives for Europe, following a stint as director …

LOS ANGELES, December 5: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios (MGM) has acquired the worldwide TV, home video and new media rights to A Dog’s Breakfast, a dark comedy shot by members of the cast and crew of the science-fiction series Stargate Atlantis and …

NEW YORK, December 5: VH1 Mobile has launched the new made-for-mobile series Celebhead, parodying the daily lives of actors, artists and politicians. The series launched today with an episode on Paris Hilton. All episodes will be available on VH1 Mobile's …