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LONGWOOD, December 22: Robert E. Yde, a television syndication industry veteran, passed away earlier this week after a long battle with cancer. He was 71. Yde and his wife, Cassie Yde, ran The Television Syndication Company, a Florida-based TV program …

NEW YORK, December 21: According to Nielsen Media Research, the highest-rated broadcast network show in 2006 was American Idol, with the Tuesday performance show netting a 17.7 rating, with a 17.2 rating for the Wednesday results show. Idol was followed …

SINGAPORE, December 21: The Beijing Olympics will provide a boost to the Chinese mobile content market, according to ABI Research, which is projecting 32 million mobile video users in the country in 2008. According to the research, about 27 percent …

COPENHAGEN, December 21: Modern Times Group is joining forces with the Danish commercial broadcaster TV 2 Danmark to launch new sports channels in the market in the first half of next year. TV 2 Sport will be available through the …

NEW YORK, December 21: The baseball network YES, which broadcasts New York Yankees games, has filed suit against Time Warner Cable, wire reports indicate, alleging that it has been underpaid in license fees. The Yankees Entertainment Sports Network (YES) filed …

WEST PALM BEACH, December 21: ION Media Networks’ flagship i Network, formerly PAX TV, has reported a 21 percent ratings gain in total households as compared with the first half of this year, following a shift in its programming strategy …

SEOUL, December 21: Twentieth Century Fox has licensed a slate of feature films to Hanaro Telecom in Korea for broadcast on its IPTV service Hana TV on a video on demand basis. This is Fox’s first VOD deal in the …

MUMBAI, December 21: Disney Channel in India has commissioned its second original production for the market, following the success Vicky Aur Vetaal, which launched in October. Dhoom Machaao Dhoom is also the channel’s first original daily show for Indian tweens, …

SÃO PAULO, December 21: Globo TV International has inked a deal for one of its novelas to be broadcast in China. In a deal signed at the Asia TV Forum in Singapore, Shades of Sin is slated for launch on …

NEW YORK, December 21: MTV has launched "Bananas," a branded mobile content subscription service delivering offerings from MTV, MTV2 and mtvU. The cross-carrier, direct-to-consumer service features material from hit shows such as Laguna Beach, The Real World, Two-A-Days, Rob & …