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LOS ANGELES: Rive Gauche Television is set to debut the factual series Droned and the format The Natural at this year’s MIPTV.

CULVER CITY: Sony Pictures Television Networks has released a new app that invites users to create and share their own images in support of Picture This, the group’s global environmental campaign.

The number of pay-TV subs in Canada and the U.S. is predicted to fall from 112 million in the peak year of 2012 to 106 million in 2021, according to the fifth edition of the Digital TV North America Forecasts report. The number of pay-TV subscribers declined by 2 million in 2015. Before 2015, much of the pay-TV fall was attributed to the loss of analog cable subscribers (which still fell by 1.1 million in 2015).

LONDON: Peter Grant is joining Fox as VP of sales, becoming part of the London-based team, reporting into Prentiss Fraser, the senior VP, global head of content sales.

LONDON: Discovery Communications has created One Discovery World, a new international ad-sales division intended to maximize the value for advertisers of the company’s portfolio of TV channels and digital products across 220 markets.

Gerhard Zeiler, the president of Turner International, believes must-have brands and must-see programming offered to consumers in a variety of ways will ensure the ongoing health of the channels business.

SHERMAN OAKS: New Films International has expanded its offering of Turkish movies, adding 1,000-plus titles from Istanbul-based Horizon Film.

NEW YORK: In February, ABS-CBN's Dolce Amore was the most-buzzed-about new show in social media, with some 281,000 tweets, according to The WIT.

LOS ANGELES: Studio71, the multichannel network of the ProSiebenSat.1 Group, has entered into a global partnership with comedy producer Just For Laughs Group to help expand its online presence.

This year's event will take place from March 14 to 17 at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre.