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BRUSSELS, June 23: Nederlandse Omroep Stichting (NOS) has been ordered by the European Commission to pay back 76.3 million euros, plus interest, to the Dutch government, following a review of its public-service financing. The Commission has been investigating payments made …

MEXICO CITY/NEW YORK, June 23: Grupo Televisa today submitted a bid for Univision, wire reports indicate, despite losing three of its partners in a dispute over price. The Televisa-led consortium—including Venevision, Bain Capital and Bill Gates' Cascade Investment—missed the previous …

BUDAPEST, June 23: DISCOP opened with almost 1,500 participants in Budapest yesterday, boosted by almost 175 last-minute buyers registering at the Sofitel Atrium Hotel. “This year’s market is very different than before, first because we had never had this many …

NEW YORK, June 23: On January 1, 2007, Sundance Channel will begin offering its advertisers integrated sponsorship and branded entertainment opportunities, marking its first foray into on-air advertising since its 1996 launch. As part of the move, the channel has …

NEW YORK, June 23: Promax/BDA ended yesterday with attendance of 3,400, up by more than 300 from last year, capping off with the Promax/BDA awards at New York’s Marriott Marquis hotel, hosted by Saturday Night Live’s Darrell Hammond. The U.K.’s …

NEW YORK, June 23: Sundance Channel has ordered two new original factual series for launch next year—one from the producers of The Staircase and the other from Taxicab Confessions’ Gantz brothers—and has pre-bought 12 documentaries for its weekly block DOCday. …

BURBANK, June 23: CBS’s Tuesday Night Book Club has been pulled from CBS’s schedule after just two episodes. The June 13 premiere delivered an audience of just 5 million, dropping to about 4 million the week after. The show follows …

SYDNEY, June 23: Following intense criticism from legislators, Australia’s Network Ten has pulled the plug on Big Brother—Adults Only, its late-night edition of the reality show. TEN said the Big Brother franchise overall has been out-performing last year’s edition, and …

NEW YORK, June 23: HBO will is set to air the cult hit The Aristocrats— in which Penn Jillette and Paul Provenza invite one-hundred comedians to tell their own version of “the world’s dirtiest joke”—on July 26. The film, which …

LONDON/BUDAPEST, June 22: Leopard International, a division of the U.K.-based Leopard Films, is making its first appearance at DISCOP this week with a lineup of key documentary and drama titles. Topping the list of dramas is the 90-minute Mysterious Creatures. …