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NEW DELHI, November 29: ESPN STAR Sports has extended its agreement with the FA Premier League (FAPL) for the exclusive, multiplatform live rights to the Barclays English Premier League (EPL) for the Indian subcontinent through 2010. The agreement grants ESPN …

LONDON/WARSAW, November 29: Disney Channel launches on Cyfrowy Polsat and CYFRA+ in Poland on December 2. The channel will be available to over 1.3 million subscribers in Poland for 16 hours a day and will start broadcasting at 5:00 p.m. …

TORONTO/LONDON, November 28: DECODE Entertainment has announced a range of new deals in Asia, including the sale of the preschool series Franny’s Feet to terrestrial and pay-TV broadcasters in Korea. EBS has secured the terrestrial rights to the show, while …

AMSTERDAM, November 28: Factual producer and distributor Off the Fence, which is exhibiting at the Asia TV Forum this week, has announced a raft of agreements with broadcasters in the region. The NHNZ series Man Made Marvels and Raising Baby …

LONDON, November 28: Cineflix International, the London-based international television distribution arm of Canadian production company Cineflix, announced that it has licensed several of its productions to channels in China and Thailand as it heads to the Asia Television Forum in …

MUMBAI, November 28: Indian children chose Disney Channel as the Best Children’s Channel; their vote was announced at the Hero Honda Indian Television Academy Awards (HHITA). At a gala event in Mumbai, Disney Channel was named the winner of the …

BRUSSELS, November 28: The popular Belgian series Steracteur Sterartiest!, based on Granada International’s Soapstar Superstar format, will go into a second season on Een, VTR’s first channel. The finale of the program’s first season, which aired on November 24, achieved …

LONDON, November 28: Mobile video communications provider Mobix has launched AshesMania, a cricketing entertainment site for customers of the Orange U.K. network. AshesMania takes an irreverent look at some of cricket’s finest moments, greatest sledges, terminology, as well as providing …

LONDON, November 28: FremantleMedia Licensing Worldwide (FLW), the licensing division of FremantleMedia, is expanding its U.S. ancillary rights operations with two new appointments. Shannon Sweeny has been named VP of integrated marketing for North America and joins the company from …

LONDON, November 28: Michael Grade has resigned as chairman of the BBC and is taking the post of executive chairman of ITV, the U.K.’s leading commercial broadcaster. Grade’s resignation is effective immediately and he will start at ITV early in …