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MIAMI/NEW YORK, February 8: Nickelodeon Latin America has picked up the rights to two animated properties from Breakthrough Entertainment: Captain Flamingo and Jimmy Two Shoes. Captain Flamingo is set for a spring premiere, followed by Jimmy Two Shoes in the …

SEOUL, February 8: Sony Pictures Television International has appointed Soojin Chung as the executive director of licensing in Korea, heading up a new office in Seoul that opens this month. Chung, previously the head of sales for Korea at Buena …

HILVERSUM, February 8: John de Mol’s Talpa Media Group has set up an international distribution division to exploit its completed productions and its formats. The launch of Talpa Content follows the recent American deal on the format The Golden Cage …

ALVISO/SEATTLE, February 7: TiVo has teamed up with Amazon.com for a soon-to-be-launched service that will allow subscribers to rent and purchase movies and television shows from the Amazon Unbox download platform and download them directly to a TiVo box for …

SALT LAKE CITY, February 7: Move Networks, which facilitates the provision of long-form video over the Internet, has received $11.3 million in first-round venture capital funding. This funding round, led by Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, will be used to expand …

MIAMI, February 7: Sony Pictures Television International (SPTI) have reached a deal for SPTI Advertising Sales, Latin America, to handle advertising sales for HBO and Cinemax in Brazil, the only territory where both channels air advertising. Headquartered in Miami, SPTI …

LONDON/NEW YORK, February 7: Nickelodeon has partnered with a range of animation producers from around the world to develop five projects that will comprise Nickelodeon’s first-ever international development slate: Hiro, Oasis, Bacon and Bunk, Super Charlie and Super Lauren and …

NEW YORK, February 7: Sesame Workshop is partnering with NDR and Ki.Ka in Germany and Five’s preschool block Milkshake! in the U.K. to produce two seasons of The Adventures of Bert and Ernie, a claymation spin on two of Sesame …

PALO ALTO, February 7: Facebook, a California-based social networking site, and Comcast Interactive Media’s Ziddio.com, a multiplatform user-generated video site, have partnered to allow Facebook users to create and share user-generated videos and possibly be a part of a new …

NEW YORK, February 7: Despite revenue growth of 18 percent, News Corporation’s second quarter profits dropped 23.5 percent to $822 million from $1.08 billion last year, when the company recorded a one-time gain of $381 million. The company delivered consolidated …