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NEW YORK, February 15: Christy Spitzer, a former development manager at MTV, has joined Lion Television USA as its director of development. Based in New York and reporting to Tony Tackaberry, the EVP of Lion TV USA, Spitzer will be …

ORLANDO, February 15: The Nielsen Company has found “significant differences” in the way viewers use digital video recorders (DVRs), depending on how soon after the original broadcast they watch the show, and what genre of programming they are viewing. The …

NEW YORK, February 15: Billionaire investor Carl Icahn, who last year went on a mission to break up Time Warner in order to up its share price, sold stock in the media company worth about $880 million in the fourth …

AUSTIN, February 15: A judge has dismissed the lawsuit filed against MySpace by the family of a teenage girl who says she was sexually assaulted by a 19-year-old man she met on the site, according to reports. Last month, four …

PARIS, February 15: MIPDOC has selected eight documentary filmmakers for the second edition of International Trailblazers, an initiative to recognize achievements in the factual genre. The 2007 International Trailblazers' are Marshall Curry from the U.S., Larry Weinstein from Canada, Paolo …

TORONTO, February 15: Bell Canada has launched a new service delivering full-length pay-per-view movies to its subscribers with video-capable phones, including titles from Buena Vista International Television and Sony Pictures Television International. “It’s a Canadian first and we’re happy to …

LONDON, February 15: Virgin Media is undercutting BSkyB with its new sports package, delivering Sky Sports 1, 2, 3 and Xtra, along with 39 other digital channels, including E4, CBeebies and ITV2, for a total monthly subscription of £26 ($51). …

BASKING RIDGE, February 15: Verizon Wireless has announced a raft of new content deals for its V CAST mobile service, including one for JT-TV, featuring content with music star Justin Timberlake. JT-TV will roll out four "channels" in 2007: Fashion, …

SANTA MONICA, February 14: Boosted by the success of its late-night Participation TV show Playmania, GSN has launched a programming block of the same name that will now incorporate two separate live interactive shows. The new Playmania programming block will …

NEW YORK, February 14: CCI Entertainment is teaming with SEVEN24 Films (formerly Alberta Filmworks) to develop, produce and distribute new children’s television series and family movies over the next three years. The two companies previously collaborated on 15 episodes of …