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BETHPAGE: Following on the heels of Time Warner Cable’s deal to carry HBO’s streaming services, HBO Go and Max Go are launching to Cablevision iO TV customers. With titles such as Game of Thrones, True Blood and Boardwalk Empire, HBO Go offers customers 1,400 titles to steam on the go through Internet-connected devices. …

LUXEMBOURG: Guillaume de Posch, former CEO of ProSiebenSat.1 Group, has been tapped as COO of the RTL Group effective January 1, 2012, to drive "expansion in new businesses and markets," says CEO Gerhard Zeiler. De Posch is tasked with overseeing corporate strategy and business development from the company’s headquarters, with responsibility …

SEATTLE: Amazon’s LOVEFiLM has scored the exclusive streaming rights to new and upcoming titles from Sony Pictures Television during the second pay-TV window as of June 2012. Sony now joins LOVFiLM partners that include Warner Bros., Entertainment One, StudioCanal, Disney, Momentum and Lionsgate. LOVEFiLM members can exclusively stream Sony Pictures …

MUNICH: TM International has landed a slate of deals across Asia and Europe, selling titles such as Moby Dick and Haven. The $25 million-production Moby Dick, a new screen adaptation of Herman Melville’s novel starring Academy Award-winner William Hurt and Academy Award-nominee Ethan Hawke, was sold to HBO (Poland), Carmen …

MAINZ: An app of the Little Mainz Men, the mascots of German pubcaster ZDF, is now available from the Apple App Store in Germany for the iPhone and iPod touch. Created by ZDF Enterprises and the Hamburg app developers from Labor 1, the Christmas penalty shoot-out app features the mascots …

BRUSSELS: The European Union has cleared the way for HBO and the Dutch cable giant Ziggo to launch the joint-venture pay-TV network HBO Nederland. The EU’s competition watchdog, the European Commission, declared that the deal would not bring up an competition issues. "On the contrary, the proposed transaction will increase …

LONDON: Consumers in the U.K. are not being educated by retailers about the benefits and basics of Internet-connected TV, indicates the latest research from Informa Telecoms & Media. Informa estimates that 35 percent of all TVs sold this year in the U.K. will be Smart TVs, though this is due …

LONDON: Coronation Street has received four nominations for this year’s National Television Awards, while Doctor Who, EastEnders and Emmerdale follow with three nods each. The period drama Downton Abbey scored its first National Television Award nomination, facing off in the drama category with Doctor Who, Merlin and last year’s winner, …

STOCKHOLM: Modern Times Group (MTG) is marking the 20th anniversary of the launch of Viasat’s pay-TV services by rebranding the TV1000 movie channel across the Nordic region as Viasat Film. Viasat will also launch four new Viasat Film premium pay-TV HD movie channels in Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland on …

MAINZ: ZDF Enterprises is commemorating the centennial of the sinking of the Titanic with a mini-series from Julian Fellowes and Nigel Stafford-Clark and a documentary about the catastrophe, offering both to German-speaking territories and broadcasters in Central and Eastern Europe. The documentary special Saving the Titanic is the first-ever documentary …