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WASHINGTON D.C., November 30: The AmericanLife TV Network, which targets the “Baby Boomer” generation, is paying tribute to the late director, writer and producer Robert Altman with a special week of Combat! episodes that he directed. The episodes of the …

SINGAPORE, November 30: Globo TV International is at the Asia Television Forum this week with three novelas—America, Student’s Heart and Capital Sin—and one mini-series, Seven Women. “Asia is a strategic market for TV Globo International,” said Rafael Corrêa, the sales …

HOUSTON, November 30: U.S. Hispanic broadcaster LAT TV (LatinAmerica Broadcasting) has launched AlamoHeightsSA, a telenovela designed for multiplatform broadcast. The show, from Alamo Heights SA Holdings, is being billed as the industry’s first “royalty-free, cross-cultural, Tex-Mex cybernovela.” Available in Spanish …

LONDON, November 30: FremantleMedia Licensing Worldwide (FLW), the licensing division of FremantleMedia, has made a series of new appointments and promotions within its U.K. licensing team. Robert Marsh has been named the VP of interactive and telephony for the U.K., …

LONDON, November 30: In a speech hosted by the British media regulator Ofcom, James Murdoch, the chief executive of BSkyB, criticized the British broadcasting industry, the BBC and Ofcom itself. Murdoch appealed for less regulation and a free market. “The …

DENVER, November 30: Liberty Global has entered into a non-binding letter of intent to sell its Belgian cable business to Telenet Group Holding—in which Liberty owns a 28.07 percent controlling interest—for 187 million euros ($246 million). The closing of the …

BURBANK, November 30: NBC’s midseason schedule will see the launch of new shows like Paul Haggis’s The Black Donnellys and the talent search series Grease: You’re the One That I Want, as well as the return of The Apprentice and …

HIALEAH, November 29: Telemundo Communications Group has taken full ownership of the Miami-based Telemundo-RTI Productions and has acquired its distribution partner, Tepuy International. Telemundo-RTI will now be renamed Telemundo Studios Miami, while Tepuy will become Telemundo Internacional, serving as the …

SINGAPORE, November 29: In its bid to expand the reach of Singaporean produced content around the world, the Media Development Authority today announced alliances with Canada’s National Film Board (NFB), Italy’s Finanziaria Laziale de Sviluppo (FILAS) and Thailand’s Software Promotion …

SINGAPORE, November 29: Buena Vista International Television-Asia Pacific kicked off its presence at the Asia TV Forum today with a bevy of Ugly Betty look-alikes on hand at the Shangri-La Hotel to promote the hit ABC show, as well as …