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Giorgio Stock has been promoted to exec VP and managing director, Disney Channels, Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA), and will lead The Walt Disney Company's portfolio of kid-focused, family inclusive television channels including Disney Channel, Playhouse Disney, Disney XD and Cinemagic, in the territory. He will also serve as a Disney representative on the board of SRTL, Disney's joint venture with RTL Group.

NBC Universal Global Networks has launched Universal Channel and Sci Fi Channel on now TV in Hong Kong in January 2009.

The move is part of NBCU Global Network's ongoing channels expansion in Asia and central to the company's objective, led by Roma Khanna, President, Global Networks & Digital Initiatives, to grow to over 100 channels internationally by 2010.

Universal Channel (now TV channel 522) and Sci Fi (now TV channel 124) are available with traditional Chinese subtitling.

The Walt Disney Company, through one of its subsidiaries, and Media-One Holdings Limited, a broadcaster operating assets in the regions of Russia, are forming a joint venture to launch a Disney-branded television channel in Russia.

Disney Cinemagic, the premium family movie channel, has signed a multi-year deal with Sky to be the first Disney branded channel broadcast in HD in the U.K. The new channel will launch on the U.K.'s HD service, Sky+HD, in December.

ION Media Networks and RCN Corporation will launch Qubo Channel, the TV and online entertainment service for children, in New York, Philadelphia and Washington D.C.

Qubo Channel becomes the second ION Media Networks channel available to RCN's major market systems, joining ION Television, which is already carried in New York, Philadelphia and Washington DC.

Aardman Animations has joined forces with YouTube to launch another Aardman branded channel, Aardman's Darkside. The channel will offer a selection of some of the company's more surreal comedies and shorts including REX THE RUNT, THE ADVENTURES OF JEFFREY, A TOWN CALLED PANIC and ANGRY KID.

Disney Channel U.K. has signed a new deal with BT Vision, allowing viewers to watch Disney Channel and Playhouse Disney programming on demand in a Disney-branded environment. The service will launch on October 24, 2008.

MTV Networks International (MTVNI) has launched first international high definition service dedicated to music and kids, MTVNHD (MTV Networks High Definition). The 24-hour English-language channel will premiere on Monday, 15 September 2008 and will be available in Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Poland and Sweden.

ATTO Technology, creator of storage connectivity and infrastructure solutions for data-intensive computing environments, is featuring a live Fibre Channel multi-pathing demonstration at this year's SIGGRAPH on August 11-14.

Located in booth #863, ATTO will demonstrate a proven, reliable high-performance storage connectivity solution targeted towards high-end digital editing where workflow productivity is critical and performance must be optimal.

KidsCo, the joint venture channel owned by media companies NBC Universal, Cookie Jar and Corus Ent., is to become part of the Spanish pay-TV platform, IMAGENIO, following an agreement with local content provider, Teuve.

The new distribution agreement will see KidsCo’s children’s channel available as part of IMAGENIO’s family package as channel 55.

The agreement will see KidsCo’s premier children’s and family programming available via the pay TV channel with immediate effect.

Verizon is offering its FiOS TV, FiOS Internet and High Speed Internet customers the ultimate on-screen and online Disney Channel Games experience, with special TV previews and exciting online multi-player gaming action.

Global preschool channel JimJam, a joint venture between HIT Ent. and Chellomedia, is set to launch on the Netherlands' largest cable operator Ziggo, as well as expand into Russia and Bulgaria in July.

The new Netherlands launch will take JimJam, the first dedicated preschool channel in the region, into approximately 400,000 additional households. Combined with recent launches on CanalDigitaal and UPC, the channel will soon reach almost one million subscribers in the Netherlands, making it JimJam's single biggest new market at present.