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TORONTO, January 22: Nicktoons Network, Nickelodeon’s 24-hour animation network, has ordered all 26 11-minute episodes of DECODE Entertainment’s animated series Planet Sketch for launch this spring. The series is commissioned by Canada’s Teletoon and the U.K.’s CiTV and co-produced with …

LONDON, January 22: Tiger Aspect Productions is ramping up its U.S. business with an office in New York that will be run by Charles Brand and Jamie Munro. Tiger Aspect Productions opened its first U.S. office in Washington D.C. in …

LONDON, January 22: James Murdoch is said to be planning to step down as the chief executive of BSkyB later this year to take up a post at News Corporation headquarters, wire reports indicate. The Mail on Sunday yesterday reported …

LONDON, January 22: MTV Networks International has announced a new leadership structure and focus for its London-based sales and client service unit Viacom Brand Solutions (VBS) Europe. The announcement was made today by VBS Europe’s recently appointed executive VP, Melisa …

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 …

GÜTERSLOH, January 22: Bertelsmann has tapped Hartmut Ostrowski as its next chairman and CEO, succeeding Gunter Thielen effective January 1, 2008. Ostrowski has been a member of the Bertelsmann Executive Board since 2002, leading the Arvato division, which has 47,000 …

FRANKFURT, January 22: Leo Kirch has reportedly filed a damages claim worth 1.4 billion euros against Deutsche Bank and its former chief executive, Rolf Breuer, over comments made in 2002 about the financial health of KirchMedia. According to wire reports, …

LAS VEGAS, January 22: At a NATPE event co-organized by the International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences and moderated by World Screen’s group editorial director, Anna Carugati, executives from Channel 6 in Ireland, TV5MONDE and ImaginAsian TV discussed their …

CULVER CITY/LOS ANGELES, January 22: Sony Pictures Television International (SPTI) has inked a format development and series production agreement with reality production outfit Base Camp Films in order to ramp up the rollout of original formats on its suite of …