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TORONTO, December 8: Diane Williamson has joined marblemedia as its VP of interactive. Williamson will lead the company’s interactive efforts and oversee a group of in-house designers and programmers. She will manage and help develop future projects across all digital …

BEIJING, December 8: Chinese authorities have banned any new foreign investment in television and film companies, according to a report in the Financial Times. In an interview with the FT, Zhu Hong of the State Administration of Radio, Film and …

NYON, December 8: UEFA has unveiled new broadcast deals in the U.S., Asia, the Middle East and Latin America for EURO 2008, which is being held June 7 to June 29, 2008, in Austria and Switzerland. "We will have [a …

WATERBURY, December 8: American teens spend more than 72 hours per week online, on their mobile phones, watching television, listening to music or playing video games, according to the Harrison Group’s recently released VNU Teen Trend Report, which surveyed 1,000 …

LONDON, December 8: British media regulator Ofcom has said that ten percent of U.K. households will not have access to DTT service Freeview’s full suite of channels following the 2012 analogue switch off. Three of the six Freeview “bundles” will …

SÃO PAULO, December 8: TV Globo has secured the Brazilian broadcast rights for the 2010 and 2014 FIFA World Cup tournaments. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. The Brazilian broadcaster has been airing the World Cup for more …

HONG KONG, December 8: A Pan Asian Mobile TV consortium has been formed with the view to accelerating the rollout of mobile TV services across the continent. The consortium’s members are the Korean mobile communications company SK Telecom, Toshiba, content …

EL SEGUNDO, December 8: Satellite platform DIRECTV has boosted its Spanish-language programming package with the addition of Centroamerica TV (CATV). The 24-hour channel features content from Canal 12 in El Salvador, Canal 11 in Honduras, Guatevision in Guatemala and Teletica …

BRISTOL, December 8: Aardman is partnering with Egmont Publishing to release a range of books based on Shaun the Sheep and Wallace and Gromit. Egmont has acquired the publishing rights to the two properties for the U.K., Eire and the …

VANCOUVER, December 8: Studio B Productions is working on a new animated short, Clancy with the Puck, which will be accompanied by an illustrated children’s book from Raincoast Books that is set for a North American rollout next fall. Created …