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MUMBAI/BURBANK, July 25: The Walt Disney Company has entered into a deal to acquire the Indian kids’ network Hungama TV, and is taking a stake in Hungama’s current owner, Indian media company UTV Software Communications. Launched in September 2004, Hungama …

PARIS, July 25: Richard Parsons, Time Warner’s chairman and CEO, has been named Personality of the Year for MIPCOM 2006. Parsons will receive the award on October 11 at a gala dinner during MIPCOM, which runs from October 9 to …

BURBANK/CUPERTINO, July 25: Friends, Babylon 5 and The Jetsons are among the slate of library titles from Warner Bros. now available on the iTunes Music Store. Other titles from Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group now available include some of the …

NEW YORK, July 25: Peter Price, the president and CEO of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, is looking to build the Spanish-language Emmys—taking place in New York this October—into a major event that would, like the Primetime …

MEXICO CITY, July 25: For the second quarter of this year, TV Azteca delivered revenues of Ps.2,653 million ($243.1 million) and a profit of Ps.655 million ($60 million), a 28-percent gain on the year-ago period. “Outstanding revenue this quarter reflects …

SPRINGFIELD, July 25: The U.S.-backed Middle Eastern news network Alhurra is set to launch in Europe on August 1. Alhurra Europe will be distributed on the Eutelsat Hotbird 3 satellite system, featuring a mix of coverage of regional and international …

FRAMINGHAM, July 25: Research firm IDC expects that about 24 million U.S. cellular subscribers will be paying for some form of TV/video content and services on their mobile devices by 2010, up from about 7 million this year. "Although our …

BURBANK, July 25: Warner Home Video, Warner Bros. Animation and DC Comics are teaming for a series of direct-to-DVD family-friendly animated features entitled DC Universe, with plans to release two to three titles per year based on comics like Wonder …

WASHINGTON, July 25: The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) and satellite platforms DIRECTV and EchoStar are among the media companies that have come together for a series of Public Service …

NEW YORK, July 25: 4Kids Entertainment has unveiled the fall slate for its 4Kids TV block on FOX in the U.S., and has announced plans to roll out a video-on-demand channel on Comcast this August. Launching on Comcast ON DEMAND …