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LOS ANGELES, February 6: iToys has secured the North American lead toy license for Cookie Jar Entertainment’s hit preschool property The Doodlebops and is expected to roll out a new line of toys based on the show this fall. The …

NEW YORK, February 5: News Corporation’s chairman and CEO, Rupert Murdoch, has given $100 million in company shares to each of his six children, the FT reported today. Murdoch has one daughter, Prudence, by his first wife; three—Lachlan, James, and …

HONG KONG, February 5: Hong Kong-based Asia Broadcast Satellite (ABS) has agreed to distribute California-based Trinity Broadcasting Network’s (TBN) group of religious channels throughout the Asia-Pacific region via the Southern Ku-band beam of the ABS-1 satellite. TBN’s group of channels …

PALERMO, February 5: Italian soccer, including Serie A games and this week’s scheduled friendly against Romania, has been indefinitely suspended following the death of a policeman Friday after a riot broke out at the Catania vs. Palermo match. According to …

NEW YORK, February 5: The International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences has tapped John Burman, the former international general manager at The Hollywood Reporter, as its new director of development. Based at the International Academy’s New York headquarters, Burman …

HBO Asia Launches On Demand Service HONG KONG, February 5: HBO Asia has launched HBO On Demand, a new subscription video on demand (SVOD) service offered exclusively to HBO/MAX Pak Premium subscribers on broadband platform now TV in Hong Kong. …

LONDON, February 5: Buena Vista International Television has appointed two new members to its London-based Europe, Middle East and Africa TV sales team: Dayna Donaldson and Simon Barwick. Donaldson, as sales director for the Nordic region, will be responsible for …

CINCINNATI, February 5: Charles E. Scripps, who served as chairman of The E. W. Scripps Company from 1953 until 1994, has died of natural causes at the age of 87. Scripps was the grandson of Edward W. Scripps, who founded …

NEW YORK, February 5: According to a new study from JupiterResearch, 53 percent of online teens watch video on the Internet occasionally and 22 percent of them view video weekly or more frequently. The report, Teens and Online Video: Understand …

TORONTO, February 6: Mike Clattenburg, the creator, director and head writer of The Trailer Park Boys; and Greg Daniels, the executive producer of The Office, are among those featured in the lineup for this year’s Banff World Television Festival, taking …