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ATLANTA/NEW YORK: Univision Communications has struck up a deal with Bounce TV to offer the African American-targeted network as a multicast channel of its stations in several markets across the U.S. Univision Television Group will carry the channel as a multicast service of its stations in San Francisco, Boston, Miami, Denver, …

EL SEGUNDO: Cable operators in the U.S. lost 460,000 video subscribers in Q3, compared to a reduction of 512,000 seen in the third quarter a year ago, according to IHS, but OTT services and the general economy are still taking their toll on the industry as a whole. According to an …

BURBANK: Raycom Media and ITV Studios America have teamed with Trifecta Entertainment & Media to distribute America Now, a syndicated daily newsmagazine show. Trifecta will start selling the program next year and will also manage all national advertising sales. Co-hosted by Leeza Gibbons and Bill Rancic, America Now is broadcast in …

LONDON: ALL3MEDIA has expanded its U.S. activities with the launch of a Los Angeles-based hub, to be led by Eli Holzman and Stephen Lambert. ALL3MEDIA America will have Holzman, currently the president of Studio Lambert and former head of Miramax Television, serving as president. Lambert, the founder of Studio Lambert …

LOS ANGELES: Hasbro is combining its TV, film, commercial productions and short-form content into one unit, under Stephen Davis, the president of Hasbro Studios. Davis has been overseeing the global TV development, production and distribution for the company since 2009. In addition to television, he will now lead Hasbro’s film group …

LOS ANGELES: Discovery Channel has given the go-ahead to the book-based Klondike (working title), the network’s first-ever scripted mini-series. Inspired by Charlotte Gray’s novel Gold Diggers: Striking It Rich in the Klondike, the mini-series will follow the lives of six individuals in a small frontier town in the Klondike region during the …

LOS ANGELES: Among the most-nominated TV programs for the 19th annual Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards are Modern Family, which scored four nods, and Homeland, which has both leads up for the male and female performance categories. The nominees for outstanding performance by an ensemble in a drama are the casts …

NEW YORK: Super Bowl XLVI and live competition shows such as American Idol, Dancing with the Stars and The Voice led TV viewing in the U.S. in 2012, according to Nielsen, which also reports that NCIS and Vegas were the only two scripted shows to make the list of Top …

MUMBAI/NEW YORK/ENGLEWOOD: The U.S. pay-TV provider DISH has agreed to offer BIGFlix, an Indian film on-demand service from Reliance Entertainment Digital, and BIG Magic International, a variety entertainment channel from Reliance Broadcast Network. BIGFlix will feature 1,000 online movies that are available in Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Bengali. Using …

LOS ANGELES: The upcoming edition of NATPE, which marks the 50th anniversary of the event, is on track to be its biggest in Miami yet, with buyer registration already ahead 31 percent from last year. On a phone call with press earlier today, Rod Perth, the president and CEO of …