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Today's Entertainment - Reuters Celebrity/Gossip News Headlines - Yahoo! News: Teletubbies' DHX buys kids TV channels from BCE, shares surge BT adds NBA to growing sports rights collection Bob Dylan whips up tempest in return to 1966 London venue Bieber gets clean-up request after painting Australia hotel wall

Teletubbies' DHX buys kids TV channels from BCE, shares surge  Thursday, Nov 28, 2013 12:42 PM PST By Euan Rocha TORONTO (Reuters) - Teletubbies owner DHX Media said on Thursday it will acquire Family Channel and three other children's channels from BCE's Bell Media for C$170 million in cash, adding content distribution to its current capabilities. The deal, cheered by analysts and investors, sent DHX shares surging 38 percent to a lifetime-high of C$5.74 in morning trading on the Toronto Stock Exchange. Halifax-based DHX, which creates, produces or licenses, children's shows such as Teletubbies, Yo GabbaGabba and Caillou, said the deal will boost its earnings and give it a stable stream of subscription-based revenue. RBC Capital Markets analyst Haran Posner described the deal as "transformational," noting that DHX is paying a very attractive price for high quality assets. Full Story	Top
BT adds NBA to growing sports rights collection  Thursday, Nov 28, 2013 07:50 AM PST BT will show NBA basketball matches live on its TV channels from this weekend, strengthening its challenge to BSkyB in the battle to attract British sports fans. BT entered the sports market only in August when it launched three channels after securing a share of English Premier League soccer rights. It further shook up the sector this month when it outbid BSkyB to win the contract for Champions League soccer from 2015. The multi-year deal to show the leading basketball league from the United States starts with a game on Sunday evening between Indiana Pacers and LA Clippers, BT said on Thursday. Full Story	Top
Bob Dylan whips up tempest in return to 1966 London venue  Thursday, Nov 28, 2013 05:46 AM PST (Note: Strong language in the 13th paragraph) By Angus MacSwan LONDON (Reuters) - Bob Dylan played London's Albert Hall this week for the first time since his fabled and tumultuous concerts there in 1966, his vitality and mystique intact five decades on since he revolutionized popular music. It might have been fitting if for his return Dylan had played "Like a Rolling Stone", a 1966 show-stopper, but the Minnesota-born singer didn't get where he is by doing the obvious. Full Story	Top
Bieber gets clean-up request after painting Australia hotel wall  Wednesday, Nov 27, 2013 09:14 PM PST Justin Bieber has been asked to clean up his mess by the mayor of the Gold Coast in Australia after the Canadian pop star spraypainted the wall of a hotel during his "Believe" tour. The abstract graffiti was painted in the tennis court area of the QT Hotel on the Gold Coast, 80 km (50 miles) southeast of Brisbane, and posted on Bieber's Instagram page, where it has attracted more than 545,000 "likes". "This eyesore has no place in the city," a spokesman for Mayor Tom Tate told Reuters. But at the end of the day it'll get cleaned up, whether or not he decides to." The mayor's office sent a "graffiti removal kit" to Bieber at the hotel but the singer had already left for Sydney for his concerts on Friday and Saturday. Full Story	Top

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