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TORONTO: Canada's Corus Entertainment has made an agreement to acquire all of Shaw Media for C$2.65 billion.

NEW YORK: In December, of all the new programs to launch globally NBC's The Wiz Live! stirred up the most buzz in social media, with some 1.6 million tweets, according to The WIT.

LOS ANGELES: Ted Sarandos, Netflix’s chief content officer, will moderate a conversation at NATPE with Norman Lear and Quincy Jones. The discussion is part of the Storytellers and Pop Culture track at NATPE Miami 2016. It is set for Wednesday, …

SINGAPORE: HBO Asia will deliver viewers unprecedented access to the 88th annual Academy Awards, including red carpet exclusives and backstage interviews, across multiple screens on-air and online. The live nominee announcement will broadcast this Thursday. It will air live on …

ISTANBUL: D-Smart in Turkey has clinched a multiyear, first-run pay-TV deal with Twentieth Century Fox Television Distribution for a range of films, including Avatar and Planet of the Apes. Starting this month, the deal gives D-Smart exclusive access to all …

LONDON: Raconteur Associates, a new indie founded by William Miller and Ruth Wrigley, has entered into a first-look deal with BBC Worldwide. As part of the deal, BBC Worldwide will manage the international distribution of Ranconteur’s finished programming and formats. …

LONDON: The popular U.S. talk show The Ellen DeGeneres Show is joining ITV2 in the U.K. in 2016, with new episodes on the channel from January 18.

NEW YORK: Univision Deportes has nabbed the exclusive U.S. Spanish-language broadcast rights for all UEFA national-team competitions from 2018 to 2022.

BEIJING: The Dalian Wanda Group is merging with Legendary Entertainment, which it acquired for around $3.5 billion in cash, marking China’s largest cross-border cultural acquisition to date.

LONDON: BBC Worldwide has placed the Dancing with the Stars format in Colombia, where a local adaptation is due to premiere tonight.