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LONDON, July 5: LIVINGtv’s commissioning editor Steve Regan has been named head of factual entertainment and entertainment at Target Entertainment. Regan joins Target in the middle of this month and is charged with managing the company’s production activities in the …

MEXICO CITY, July 5: Mexico’s Grupo Televisa is prepared to offload its 11.4-percent stake in Hispanic broadcaster Univision Communications as it looks to explore other opportunities in the U.S. market. The Mexican media giant last week failed in its bid …

LOS ANGELES, July 5: Apple’s CEO Steve Jobs has asked The Walt Disney Company not to pay him the $65,000 annual salary he is entitled to as a member of the company’s board of directors. As a result, Disney has …

SYDNEY, July 5: Australian Prime Minister John Howard is calling on Network Ten to cancel its edition of Big Brother, after a participant on the show alleged that two male contestants sexually assaulted her. TEN did not broadcast footage of …

STOCKHOLM, July 5: Modern Times Group has acquired the Slovenian free-TV broadcaster PRVA TV for 8.1 million euros. PRVA is the third-largest private commercial free-to-air TV broadcaster in Slovenia. Rebranded in June of last year, the channel reported revenues of …

MONTE CARLO, July 5: At a star-studded event over the weekend during the 46th Monte Carlo Television Festival, attended by Geena Davis, Patricia Arquette, Ellen Pompeo and Dennis Haysbert, among others, the winners were announced for the annual Golden Nymph …

HILVERSUM, July 5: At an Extraordinary General Meeting of shareholders today, Elías Rodríguez-Viña Cancio was approved as the new chairman and CEO of Endemol. The move follows Joaquim Agut Bonsfills’ abrupt resignation last month. Rodriguez-Viña will chair the company’s management …

BURBANK/LONDON, June 30: Following the L.A. Screenings, Warner Bros. International Television has sold three series to the U.K. channel LIVINGtv. Justice, from Emmy-winning executive producer Jerry Bruckheimer offers a behind-the-scenes look at how high-profile cases are tried in the media …

LOS ANGELES, June 30: PorchLight Entertainment, the producer and distributor of the preschool series, Jay Jay The Jet Plane, and India’s UTV will produce the feature-length animated movie, Jay Jay’s Race Around The World. Pre-production on the movie is set …

NEW JERSEY, June 30: Alfred Haber Distribution (AHDI) has finalized the sale of the 7th Annual Latin Grammy Awards to several Latin American broadcasters. The awards show will air live from Madison Square Garden in New York City on November …