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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 …

PARIS, June 30: Marathon Media has appointed MGM Consumer Products as the exclusive North American licensing agent for Team Galaxy, and Bandai America Inc. as the master toy licensee. The futuristic animated action series Team Galaxy is set in the …

LONDON, June 30: BKN Home Entertainment, a division of BKN International AG, has signed a deal a Universal Music Operations (UMO) for the exclusive distribution, in the U.K. and Ireland, of its DVD and home entertainment products. “I am delighted …

BARCELONA, June 30: Children’s entertainment producers, Neptuno Films chose the Barcelona Aquarium for the location of the company’s 15th anniversary. Hosted by Neptuno’s co-founders, Cristina Brandner and Josep Viciana, the event featured a big band, magicians and caricaturists, for a …

SAN FRANCISCO, June 30: VIZ Pictures, a new sister company of VIZ Media, is set to release the romantic comedy Train Man: Densha Otoko in on DVD in North America in January. Adapted from the Japanese bestseller by Hitori Nakano, …

LONDON, June 30: Granada International has appointed Jennifer Harrington as head of formats. Harrington, who was sales director at Twentieth Century Fox International Television, will be based in Granada’s London office. She will be responsible for the sale of Granada …

BUDAPEST, June 30: HBO Central Europe has named Ondrej Zach as country manager for the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Zach will have overall responsibility for HBO basic and premium channels in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, and will have oversight …

TORONTO, June 30: The Protest Revolution, a four-part documentary series produced for BBC4 and Canada's VisionTV has wrapped up principle photography. Filmed in high definition by IWC Media and Cream Productions on location in the U.K., Europe and North America, …

LOS ANGELES, June 30: Univision shareholders have filed two suits against the company and its board over their handling of the sale of the leading Spanish-language network in the U.S. to a consortium of private investors earlier this week. According …

MUNICH, June 30: Discovery Communications will be launching DMAX in September 2006 in place of XXP, a free-to-air channel the company acquired earlier this year. DMAX, a fact-based entertainment channel, will focus on the lifestyles and interests of male viewers …