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LOS ANGELES, April 4: Following yesterday’s announcement that Pappas Telecasting is ending its affiliation agreement with Azteca America in several markets, the Hispanic broadcaster announced today that it is exploring other options for continued carriage in Houston and San Francisco. …

NEW YORK/BURBANK, April 4: Time Warner Cable and The Walt Disney Company today announced a wide-ranging new agreement that covers retransmission consent for ABC-owned stations, carriage of a broad range of cable networks, including several HD offerings, as well as …

DUBAI/BURBANK, April 4: Emirates Cable TV and Multimedia (E-Vision) has entered into a deal to bring feature films from Warner Bros. International Television Distribution (WBITD) to its subscribers in the United Arab Emirates on a pay-per-view basis, beginning this month. …

LOS ANGELES, April 4: MTV Networks’ Spike TV has greenlit MANswers, a new 9×30-minute original late-night comedic series for premiere this fall. Produced by Super Delicious LLP and Fujisankei Communications International, each episode of MANswers uses re-enactments, expert one-on-ones and …

LONDON, April 4: The upcoming Concert for Diana, set for July 1 at Wembley Stadium, is expected to reach 500 million homes worldwide, with Grand Entertainment, which is handling the TV rights, notching up slots with a host of broadcasters, …

TORONTO, April 4: Jetix Europe has acquired the pay-TV, TV distribution, home video and consumer products rights for Europe and the Middle East to the second season of Breakthrough Animation’s Captain Flamingo. Jetix Europe’s consumer products division JCP (Jetix Consumer …

LONDON, April 4: Entara Limited has reached an agreement with Taffy Entertainment to take over the television distribution responsibilities for its multi-Emmy Award-winning 3-D animated series Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks, effective immediately. The announcement follows the creation of …

TORONTO, April 4: Discovery Kids Latin America has picked up Cuppa Coffee Studios’ 26×11-minute preschool series Bruno and the Banana Bunch for premiere later this year. The Latin American deal for the series follows the recent launch of the series …

NEW YORK/PARIS, April 4: In its first major international co-production agreement, Lifetime Networks is partnering with TF1 International, the distribution arm of France's market-leading broadcaster, to produce and distribute TV movies on the worldwide market. The alliance kicks off with …

BURBANK, April 4: Emmy and Promax Award-winner Vince Manze, who has been the president and creative director of The NBC Agency since 1999, has been named to the newly created position of president of program planning, scheduling and strategy at …