Santa Clara, Calif. - Terminating a deal struck last month to sell its TV Guide Network to Allen Shapiro and One Equity Partners, Macrovision (NASD: MVSN), the provider of copy-protection technology and media databases, said that it will instead sell the network to film studio Lionsgate for $255 million, the same price as the original deal. The sale, expected to close by the end of February, includes both TV Guide Network, available in 83 million homes, and TVGuide.com, an online entertainment destination with over 15 million monthly unique visitors.

New York - News Corporation and NBC Universal said on Wednesday that their as-yet-unnamed digital distribution joint venture has signed a raft of deals with new content partners, including Fuel TV, Oxygen, Speed, Sundance Channel and TV Guide. The video destination and distribution network, set to launch this summer, will offer full-length shows, clips and movies through distribution partners including AOL, MSN, MySpace, Yahoo, Comcast and CNET.

Los Angeles - Gemstar-TV Guide International, a provider of electronic program guides for digital TV services, and the publisher of TV Guide, announced on Thursday that it has acquired a number of TV-related websites.

Cambridge, Mass. - Internet TV distributor Brightcove announced on Monday that it has signed new agreements with publishers Time Inc. and TV Guide. Time Inc. already uses Massachusetts-based Brightcove's technology on Time.com, and plans to produce original video content for a number of its websites, which will supported by ads and distributed by Brightcove. TV Guide Broadband will use Brightcove to publish and manage online video for syndication to its website affiliates, including AOL Video and Google Video.