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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 …

NEW DELHI, June 27: India’s government is proposing legislation that would regulate the country’s broadcast industry. The bill is aimed at Indian media companies, but places restrictions on local programming that would impact foreign channels as well, such as News …

LONDON, June 27: Speculation in London’s City has it that ITV chief executive Charles Allen may be ousted by ITV’s shareholders if the broadcaster doesn’t improve its financial performance. Audience shares and advertising revenues at the U.K.’s leading commercial broadcaster …

LONDON, June 27: The U.K. distribution company, Fireworks International, has closed a series of sales from its expanding catalogue of children’s programming. Black Hole High is based on the strange events occurring in Black Holsey High, and all four seasons …

NORTH SYDNEY, June 27: Nickelodeon Spain has acquired The Sleepover Club from Southern Star International. The live-action series, based on Rose Impey’s popular books, revolves around the lives of five teenage girls who form their own secret society. The television …

LONDON/NEW YORK, June 27: Breakthrough Interactive Group (BIG) has chosen the IPTV outfit Narrowstep’s telvOS technology to power its martial arts-themed broadband TV portal, MAC Experience. Launching July 7, the multiple-channel broadband site is aimed at the some 120 million …

DUBAI/LONDON, June 27: Digital rights content aggregator Media Gateway has reached a deal with BBC Motion Gallery to bring the best content from the public broadcaster’s last 60 years to mobile phone users in Europe and the Middle East. The …

LONDON, June 27: Author J.K. Rowling revealed that at least two characters will die in the seventh and final book of her Harry Potter series. “The final chapter is hidden away, although it's now changed very slightly,” Rowling told Britain’s …