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GENEVA: The EBU has revealed the nominees for the 55th annual Rose d’Or Awards, which span six categories for television and online video: reality and factual entertainment, game show, comedy, sitcom, entertainment and, new for 2016, drama series.

BEVERLY HILLS: WME-IMG is set to acquire the MMA organization UFC in a deal valued at $4 billion.

NEW YORK: ABS-CBN's Born for You generated the most buzz on Twitter and Facebook last month of all the new programs to launch globally in June, according to The WIT.

SYDNEY: Turner's comedy brand Adult Swim is slated to launch as a weekly programming block on Nine's 9GO! in Australia this month.

A new Strategy Analytics report finds that prices for pay TV are holding steady in most countries, though the introduction of "skinny bundles" is driving the minimum cost down in places such as Canada and Denmark.

MUNICH: Red Arrow Entertainment Group has expanded its footprint in digital content production and English-speaking markets through an investment in the Los Angeles-based producer Band of Outsiders.

TEL AVIV: Keshet International (KI) has licensed the hit scripted series The A Word to be adapted in Greece.

LONDON: Louise Pedersen has been tapped as CEO of all3media International, marking her return to the company after departing in January 2015 for Playground Television.

NEW YORK: Tim Mutimer, the CEO of Zodiak Rights, spoke to World Screen Newsflash about the strengths of the combined Banijay-Zodiak catalog, trends in the scripted market and what buyers are looking for in the unscripted arena.

LOS ANGELES: Paul Franklin has been appointed president of CBS Television Distribution (CTD), overseeing all operations for CBS’s domestic syndication company, while Armando Nuñez, who has led both CTD and CBS Studios International, will now focus solely on the overseas business.