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NEW YORK, August 22: MTV and Nickelodeon will become full labels under the Paramount Motion Picture Group (PMPG) after spending 12 years as on-lot producers at the studio, as part of a move to ramp up feature-film output geared to …

BURBANK, August 22: Jim Paratore, the president of Telepictures Productions and executive VP of Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution, will launch a full-service television production company, paraMedia inc., that will have an exclusive overall deal with the Warner Bros. Television …

NEW YORK, August 22: For the first time, NBC News will offer up one of the summer concerts from its Today series—John Mayer’s live performance this Friday—on the iTunes Music Store. The performance will be made available in its entirety, …

NEW YORK, August 22: Stargate SG-1 from MGM Television will end its run on the SCI FI Channel at the end of its current tenth season, but its spin-off, Stargate Atlantis, has been renewed for a fourth season. The news …

SANTA CRUZ, August 21: More than 1,000 episodes of the long-running PBS series The Charlie Rose Show are now available for purchase from Amazon.com through the CustomFlix DVD On Demand service. "For years, The Charlie Rose Show has been looking …

HONG KONG, August 21: News Corporation’s Asian arm, STAR, has made a $1.1-million donation to UNICEF for its tsunami recovery projects in Sri Lanka and Indonesia. The donation will address the educational, developmental and health care needs of the children …

EL SEGUNDO, August 21: DIRECTV has added the Taiwanese news and information network CTI Zhong-Tian Channel to its lineup, creating a new Mandarin-language programming package. CTI Zhong-Tian Channel is part of DIRECTV's new Mandarin-speaking programming package, MandarinDirect II that includes …

LONDON, August 21: Fremantle International Distribution has notched up a range of new programming agreements in the CIS and Eastern Europe, including a 14-title factual package with distributor Intra Communication for Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Georgia, Belarus and Moldova. Intra will …

KABUL, August 21: The new TV station Lemar has launched in Afghanistan, delivering news and current affairs programming. The privately owned and operated network is a sister channel to Tolo TV. “At Lemar our focus is on independent reporting of …

NEW YORK, August 21: Sesame Workshop is launching dedicated Sesame programming blocks in several Eastern European markets featuring, among other titles, Play With Me Sesame, which has been greenlit for 26 new episodes. On Poland's Minimini, the recently launched Sesame …