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LONDON: As part of its strategy to strengthen its international content business, ITV plc has acquired the Norwegian production firm Mediacircus and has agreed to partner with Israeli broadcaster Reshet on development and production initiatives. “We are now beginning to build on our strengths with selective investments and partnerships at …

LONDON: ALL3MEDIA has tapped an ad agency veteran, Farah Ramzan Golant, as its new CEO, effective November 5. Ramzan Golant is currently executive chairman of AMV BBDO, the U.K.’s largest ad agency. She was previously CEO of the firm, which has worked with Guinness, BT, the Economist, Sainsbury’s, Aviva, Pepsi, Mars, Mercedes …

LONDON: Citing the progress made in its Transformation Plan, ITV has reported double-digit revenue and profit growth in the first half of this year. Total revenues for the six months ended June 30, 2012, rose 10 percent to £1.13 billion, with pre-tax profit rising 15 percent to £235 million. Non-advertising revenues …

LONDON: Sky has clinched a deal to add content from Channel 5 to its on-demand service, Sky Anytime+, later this year. The broadcaster will join BBC and ITV on the catch-up service, alongside a slate of on-demand programming from Sky. Also available is content from MTV, UKTV, Discovery, FX, HISTORY, Disney and …

LONDON: British broadband, telephony and mobile provider TalkTalk has announced deals with Sky and UKTV to add channels from both operators to the Internet-delivered YouView platform launching in the U.K. later this year. The deal with UKTV will bring all of the branded channels from the BBC Worldwide-Scripps Networks International …

LONDON: Noel Hedges has been named senior VP of acquisitions for Cineflix Rights, a newly created position, effective in September. Hedges will work under Chris Bonney, the CEO of Rights for Cineflix Media, and will be in charge of the department’s third-party acquisitions strategy. He is expected to help grow …

MADRID: With revenues down by 8.6 percent in the first half of the year to 384.7 million euros, Spanish broadcaster Antena 3 reported a net income for the period of 17.9 million euros, a 66.8-percent reduction on the first half of 2011. The broadcaster noted that its television revenues were 332.8 …

LONDON: Sky has acquired Parthenon Media Group in order to set up a distribution arm that will sell the platform’s original content to the worldwide market. Reporting to Sophie Turner Laing, Sky’s managing director of entertainment, news and broadcast operations, Parthenon’s founder and CEO Carl Hall will lead Sky’s new …

HAMBURG: The video-on-demand platform Viewster has reached a licensing deal with Warner Bros. for a slate of movie titles to be offered on its platform in Germany and a host of other markets. Current releases as well as around 1,000 catalogue titles will be made available on Viewster in German-speaking territories—beginning with …

DUBLIN: BalconyTV, an online music network that started as a YouTube show, has tapped ex-MTV Networks CEO Judy McGrath as an advisor, and has secured institutional funding from Polaris Venture Partners, Lerer Ventures and Greycroft Partners. Founded by Stephen O’Regan, Tom Millett and Pauline Freeman in Dublin, the network originated as a …