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NEW YORK, March 8: Nickelodeon’s night-time programming block, Nick at Nite, has acquired two ABC series, America’s Funniest Home Videos and George Lopez, for broadcast on the network this year. Starting from April 30 at 8:30 p.m. (ET/PT), the network …

NEW JERSEY, March 8: Alfred Haber Distribution Inc. (AHDI) has secured the international rights, excluding Australia, to MTV Networks’ Home James, a 10×30-minute unscripted reality series. Produced by the original team from MTV’s The Real World, Home James follows the …

LUXEMBOURG, March 8: RTL Group has recorded a 2006 profit of 1.11 billion euros, an 80.4 percent gain on its prior-year results, on revenues of 5.64 billion euros, a 10.3 percent increase on 2005. “2006 was a very satisfying year …

LOS ANGELES, March 8: DIRECTV executive Dan Fawcett has been appointed president of digital media for Fox Entertainment Group (FEG), effective immediately. In his new role, Fawcett will further the growth and evolution of the company’s digital media strategy, including …

NEW YORK, March 8: According to the Financial Times, News Corporation is in “active negotiations” with other content owners to license titles that it would distribute through its social networking site MySpace. Peter Levinsohn, the president of Fox Interactive Media, …

LONDON, March 8: Andrew Hall has been appointed to the newly-created role of senior VP of legal at NBC Universal International, effective immediately. In his new role, Hall will lead legal strategic corporate initiatives for NBC Universal International, including coordinating …

NEW YORK, March 8: CBS Corporation has taken its first step towards setting up a film unit, naming former Paramount Pictures executive VP Bruce Tobey as COO of the CBS Feature Films division. In addition to being charged with establishing …

EL SEGUNDO, March 8: DIRECTV has promoted Derek Chang to executive VP of content strategy and development and Dan Hartman to senior VP of programming acquisition. In his new role, Chang will oversee all programming strategy, development and acquisitions for …

DALLAS, March 8: Mark Cuban’s Magnolia Pictures has asked a Texas federal court to issue a subpoena against Google as it seeks the identity of a user who uploaded illegal copies of some of the studio’s releases to Google Video …

LONDON, March 8: IMG Media’s Darlow Smithson has recently completed an internal restructure, with executive chairman John Smithson also assuming the role of chief creative director and Tom Brisley, formerly head of factual, promoted to creative director. In Smithson’s additional …