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Bennett Productions will produce the upcoming HD sports and music series Honda Ski Tour for ABC in the U.S. The Honda Ski Tour is an Alpine event tour held in various locales throughout the U.S. such as Sun Valley, Idaho; …

ENGLEWOOD, January 23: Starz Media has licensed more than 250 of its movie and video titles to Vongo, Starz Entertainment’s broadband video download platform, for VOD rental and electronic sell-through. The multiyear content licensing and distribution agreement with Vongo includes …

LONDON, January 23: MTV Networks International and retailer The Body Shop have teamed up for the launch of Spray to Change Attitudes, a multimedia HIV and AIDS prevention campaign spanning 44 countries and reaching millions of under-25 year olds. In …

LONDON, January 23: In advance of the launch of their broadband portal joiningthedots.tv in February, MercuryMedia and Aggregator have licensed 50 films from a wide variety of international factual producers and distributors. Titles were licensed from distributors such as Roco …

NEW YORK, January 23: Rainbow Media-owned VOOM HD Networks’ Equator HD has inked a deal with Media International Corporation (MICO) for more than 20 hours of high-definition television content from Japanese public broadcaster NHK. Equator HD has acquired seasons three …

ATLANTA, January 23: Adult Swim, Cartoon Network’s late-night adult-skewing block, will launch two original live action-series on February 11. Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job is a 15-minute sketch show starring the comedy duo Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim. …

LONDON, January 23: Portman Film & Television has acquired the international distribution rights to Party Animals, a new eight-part drama series scheduled to air on BBC Two from January 31. Produced by World Productions, the makers of This Life and …

PARK CITY, January 23: Albie Hecht’s Shine Global has launched a semi-annual contest designed to promote and fund the development of documentary films, following the success of its first film, War/Dance. Shine’s first fully financed documentary film explores a group …

NEW YORK, January 22: Announcing GE’s financial results for 2006, the company’s chairman and CEO, Jeff Immelt, noted the “turnaround” at NBC Universal, where revenues for the year were up 10 percent to $16.2 billion. While revenues were up for …

LONDON, January 22: Job van Wagensveld has been named executive director of sales at Endemol International and Annelies Noest has been promoted to director of sales. In his new role, van Wagensveld, previously the executive director of participation TV, will …