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NEW YORK, June 16: Venevision Investments, a division of the Cisneros Group of Companies, is joining a consortium of investors seeking to acquire U.S. Hispanic broadcaster Univision, teaming with Grupo Televisa and five investment firms. Venevision and Televisa are already …

LONDON, June 16: Taffy Entertainment has named Louise O’Toole as the managing director of its new office in the U.K. O’Toole will report to Taffy Entertainment’s joint CEOs Mike Young and Bill Schultz, as well as president Liz Young. She …

ROME/HILVERSUM, June 16: John de Mol’s investment vehicle Talpa Management is said to be working with Mediaset on a bid to acquire a majority stake in Endemol from Spain’s Telefónica, wire reports indicate. Endemol shares were up some 9 percent …

OLD LYME/LOS ANGELES, June 16: The Connecticut-based USA Video Technology Corp. (USVO) has filed a patent infringement suit against Time Warner Cable and Comcast Cable, among other platforms, over their VOD services. Meanwhile, a federal appeals court has upheld a …

WASHINGTON, June 16: Verizon has reached a deal to offer subscribers of its FiOS pay-TV package access to up to three public TV stations within a given service area, through an agreement with the Association of Public Television Stations (APTS) …

REDMOND, June 16: LivePlanet, the production company founded by Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, is working on a baseball-themed unscripted series for MSN, the first project under the Internet company’s MSN Originals drive to boost its content offerings. Fan Club: …

LOS ANGELES, June 16: For the first 14 matches of the World Cup, Univision’s Spanish-language coverage has out-delivered ABC and ESPN2 by 11 percent, averaging 2.3 million viewers. Citing Nielsen figures, Univision also says that it averaged 1.4 million viewers …

SINGAPORE, June 16: MTV is set to produce customized versions of the reality series MTV Meet or Delete in China, India, Korea and Australia. The series was developed in collaboration with HP's PC business as a component of its new …

TORONTO, June 16: The MuchMusic Video Awards, distributed by CHUM International, will air in a record 65 markets this weekend across Africa, Latin America, the Middle East, Europe and North America. The MMVAs—which have aired outside of Canada for 12 …

MONTREAL, June 16: Distraction has secured a trio of new deals on the Jonathan Goodson game show Dirty Rotten Cheater, including one with France 2 for its summer schedule. The format was recently renewed by TBS in Japan and has …