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PARIS, January 26: Full-year revenues at TF1 rose 5.8 percent to 2.65 billion euros, with channel ad revenues up 3.7 percent to 1.71 billion euros. The telecommunications and service sectors delivered the majority of the ad gains. TF1’s ad market …

TORONTO, January 26: Dawn Airey, BSkyB’s outgoing managing director of channels and services, will deliver a keynote address at the Banff World Television Festival (BWTVF), taking place June 10 to 13 at the Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel in Banff, Alberta. …

ALVISO/NEW YORK, January 26: TiVo has partnered with CBS for the launch of a special two-week Super Bowl campaign that also includes a sneak peek at the new comedy Rules of Engagement. Throughout the campaign, which will air through February …

MIAMI, January 26: Discovery en Español achieved the highest prime-time ratings growth of any publicly reported Hispanic broadcast or pay-TV network over the past year, according to the Nielsen Hispanic Index. In 2006, the ratings growth was highest among men …

NEW YORK, January 26: 4Kids Entertainment has licensed its animated comedy adventure series Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles—Fast Forward into a range of international markets, including the U.K., Spain and Italy. New episodes of the show are set to launch on …

MADRID, January 26: Sogecable’s digital satellite platform, Digital+, has added three Time Warner channels to its basic service: a new version of TCM, as well as TCM Classics and TNT. The TCM channels will make their debut on the platform …

LOS ANGELES, January 26: Director, writer and actor Damian Chapa and Laguna Productions have announced two new feature film titles: Mexican American and El Chicano. Mexican American, with Chapa, Joe Estevez and Rachel Hunter, is slated for a DVD release …

DUNEDIN, January 26: The fifth season of NHNZ’s The Most Extreme is set to begin airing on Animal Planet in the U.S. this April. The show, which this season introduces new topics such as “Animal Inventors” and “Nature’s Medics”, has …

COPENHAGEN, January 26: TV 2 Danmark has tapped Keld Reinicke and Merete Mortensen as the new heads of its program department, following Bo Damgaard’s resignation at the end of last year. Reinicke is the former managing director of TV 2 …

LONDON, January 26: Jo Clinton-Davis will join ITV as controller of popular factual from her role as the head of commissioning at UKTV. At ITV, she will be responsible for developing and commissioning a broad slate of popular factual programming. …