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LOS ANGELES, June 29: The Walt Disney Company’s board of directors has elected John Pepper, Jr. to be its non-executive chairman, effective January 1, 2007. Pepper, 67, the former CEO of Procter & Gamble, will succeed Sen. George J. Mitchell …

NEW YORK, June 29: AOL and Fusion Entertainment have announced a joint-venture web network called Lat34.com dedicated to action sports. It will be the first interactive network featuring action sports such as skate, BMX, FMX, surfing, snowboarding and more. Lat34.com—named …

BURBANK/SAN MATTEO, June 28: NBC and YouTube, the media company that allows people to watch and share original videos through a worldwide web, have announced a strategic partnership. Under the terms of the agreement NBC will be able to promote …

LONDON, June 28: BBC Worldwide presented its Annual Review for 2005/2006 and announced profits of £89.4 million, a year on year increase of 62 percent, and sales up by 11 percent to £784.4 million. The increase in profits was achieved …

NEW YORK, June 28: Universal McCann’s Bob Coen cut his 2006 advertising forecast for the U.S. He expects ad spend to increase by 5.6 percent to $286.4 billion instead of 5.8 percent, which he predicted last December. The downgrade is …

LONDON, June 28: Sky has introduced a new service than allows viewers to program their Sky+ digital boxes by mobile phone. The service, called Remote Record, will be available as an SMS service, on mobile Internet and on the sky.com …

LONDON, June 28: ITV will be airing a prime-time stop-motion animation show based on the book series Flanimals by Ricky Gervais, the co-creator and star of The Office and Extras. The animated TV series, consisting of six 30-minute episodes, written …

BURBANK, June 28: NBC will begin airing the first of 10 original webisodes on July 13; based on the network’s hit show, The Office. Airing Thursdays on NBC, The Office stars Golden Globe winner Steve Carell, Jenna Fischer, John Krasinski, …

KNOXVILLE, June 28: Scripps Networks is launching high-definition channels in the U.S. and in Japan. Food Network HD will launch in the U.S. on June 30, joining HGTV HD as Scripps' second high-definition network to launch in the last three …

NEW YORK, June 28: According to Nielson Media Research, Nickelodeon has secured the top spot as the number one basic cable network across all kids’ demos at the end of the second quarter of 2006, for the eleventh consecutive year. …