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SAN FRANCISCO, March 27: Yahoo! is creating a mobile advertising network that will allow marketers to place ads not only on its mobile services, but also on those of other online publishers as well. Yahoo! plans to offer Yahoo! Mobile …

TORONTO, March 27: The CBC in Canada and the National Hockey League (NHL) have signed a new six-year broadcast agreement for the English-language broadcast and multimedia rights to NHL games. The new agreement commences with the 2008/09 season and runs …

MONTREAL, March 27: New and library movie releases from Twentieth Century Fox have been added to Cogeco Cable’s video-on-demand service in Canada. The titles available on the service as of yesterday include X-Men: The Last Stand, Ice Age: The Meltdown, …

LONDON, March 27: Entertainment Rights (ER) has released its preliminary results for the year that ended December 31, 2006. Highlights of the results include: an increase in operating profit of 36 percent to £10.2 million, compared to £7.5 million in …

UNTERFÖHRING, March 27: The German media company EM.TV AG outperformed its sales and earnings objectives for 2006, led by its sports division, whose business was boosted by the FIFA World Cup. Highlights of EM.TV’s financial results include: consolidated sales increased …

NEW YORK, March 27: Bravo has announced the pilot pick-up of Paycheck, a British game show format from IDTV. The show features seven players who must guess each other's salaries, based on questions about pop culture, observations about their opponents, …

TORONTO/LONDON, March 27: Cookie Jar Entertainment shows will be added to the BT Vision Download Store this spring, allowing users to buy individual episodes or entire seasons of series like Arthur and Adventures of Paddington Bear. “We are delighted to …

LONDON, March 27: BBC Worldwide has appointed Buena Vista International Television-Asia Pacific executive Steve Macallister as its new MD of global TV sales, effective in July and reporting to John Smith, the CEO of BBC Worldwide. In his new role, …

LONDON, March 27: On the eve of the anticipated worldwide release of the second Mr Bean feature film, Mr Bean’s Holiday, FremantleMedia Enterprises (FME) has secured a raft of new sales and series renewal deals for both the live-action and …

DELHI/LONDON, March 27: Zonemedia’s Zone Reality Channel in Asia has announced plans for two locally produced shows: A Life Extraordinary and Fool Proof. A Life Extraordinary features real life events and people and includes paranormal happenings and inexplicable events. Stories …