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NEW YORK, June 21: A PricewaterhouseCoopers report released today predicts that the global media and entertainment industry will rise at a 6.6 percent compound annual growth rate (CAGR) to $1.8 trillion in 2010. PricewaterhouseCoopers' Global Entertainment and Media Outlook: 2006-2010 …

LOS ANGELES, June 21: The gay/lesbian network programming service here! is currently developing a new television movie, In the Name of Love, co-written by Chastity Bono and Garth Belcon. The film tells the tale of an influential Hollywood lesbian who …

LOS ANGELES, June 20: Starz Entertainment Group has entered into a deal to provide content from Vongo, its online video download service, to Toshiba’s new gigabeat portable media devices. Vongo, launched at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show, is a subscription-based …

REDWOOD CITY, June 20: San Francisco-based global online broadcaster MediaZone has announced a partnership with the All England Lawn Tennis Club for live, on-demand broadband coverage of over 250 Wimbledon games. Wimbledon Live, available at http://www.wimbledon.org/live, will feature live commentary, …

NORWALK, June 20: Hubbard Broadcasting’s ReelzChannel has acquired all seven seasons of CABLEready’s The Directors in advance of its September 27 U.S. rollout. The series, first launched on Starz Encore, profiles Hollywood’s top filmmakers, among them Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, …

LOS ANGELES, June 20: TV Guide Channel continues its new focus on original content by announcing Trapped in TV Guide, a weekly one-hour hidden-camera series hosted by Growing Pains alum Tracey Gold. Trapped TV Guide puts unsuspecting fans in the …

MALIBU/NEW YORK, June 20: Jakks Pacific has signed a multi-year, multi-product licensing agreement with HIT Entertainment to develop a range of merchandise based on Barney. Categories will include learning toys and plush, with product slated to begin hitting retail stores …

LONDON/MADRID, June 20: Granada International and Zinkia Entertainment’s preschool series Pocoyo has secured free- and pay-TV slots in Spain with TVE and Boomerang, and has sold to RTP in Portugal. The 3-D animated series, re-commissioned for a second season by …

NEW YORK, June 20, 2006: Taffy Entertainment will announce a major product launch for Cartoon Network’s hit animated program Code Lyoko at Licensing Show this week. A new toy line, created by Marvel Toys, will be available exclusively at Toy …

PARIS/BUDAPEST, June 20: Twenty-four French production and distribution entities are expected to take part in DISCOP under the TV France International banner, the highest attendance in the organization’s 12 years of attending the market. The Central and Eastern European event …