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NEW YORK, September 22: Time Warner announced it has agreed to sell AOL France's Internet access business to Neuf Cegetel, a French telecommunications network operator, for about $365 million in cash. Under the terms of the agreement, Neuf Cegetel will …

MEXICO CITY, September 22: Telemundo, the U.S. Spanish-language broadcast network, and the Mexican company Grupo Xtra would like to start a TV network in Mexico and have petitioned the Mexican government to auction additional broadcast frequencies. According to Reuters, Telemundo …

LONDON, September 22: FremantleMedia announced that Declan Caulfield has become executive producer of FMX, a newly created division responsible for developing and producing personalized and participatory media entertainment across various platforms. As Executive Producer, Caulfield will be responsible for identifying, …

LOS ANGELES, September 22: Top management has been reorganized at MarVista, the independent producer and distributor of features and family entertainment programming. Company founder Joseph Szew is handing over the CEO reigns to his son, Fernando Szew, and Michael D. …

COLOGNE, September 22: FRAPA, the Format Recognition and Protection Association, today announced that its present chairman, David Lyle, is stepping down and is being replaced by Ute Biernat, who has previously held the position of FRAPA Board member. At the …

LOS ANGELES, September 22: USA Network has picked up the sixth season of the drama The Dead Zone, which will consist of 13 episodes. The series, produced by Lionsgate and CBS Paramount International Television in association with Piller-Segan, will return …

TORONTO, September 21: Portfolio Entertainment has promoted Aron Dunn to the position of manager of creative development. Dunn joined Portfolio Entertainment in January as a development executive. In his new role, he will oversee the acquisition of new intellectual properties …

NORWALK, September 21: CABLEready has sold its real-crime investigation series Accident Investigator to Hungary and the Czech Republic’s Spektrum Channel, Sweden’s TV4 Fakta, and Thailand’s UBC. The host of the show, Rusty Haight, entered the Guinness Book of World Records …

LOS ANGELES, September 21: Gary Scott Thompson, the creator of the NBC drama Las Vegas, is working on two new dramas, one for CBS and the other for NBC. According to the Hollywood Reporter, Protect and Serve for CBS is …

LONDON, September 21: In preparation for Teletubbies’ tenth anniversary, Ragdoll and BBC Worldwide have created a new joint venture called Ragdoll Worldwide. Besides exploiting the current catalogue of Ragdoll programming, the joint venture will launch two new exciting properties, In …