Cosmo TV to launch in Canada

Corus Entertainment Inc. chose Valentine’s day to debut its latest channel, Cosmopolitan TV.

The channel, in partnership with media company and magazine publisher Hearst Corp., is billed as “fun, flirty and irreverent” and aimed specifically at young women 18 to 34, an audience advertisers covet but sometimes find hard to reach.

Cosmopolitan TV Canada joins Cosmopolitan Television networks in Spain and Latin America. It is the first English-language version. Like the magazine, the focus for CosmoTV is men, sex and relationships.

Searchers continue hunt into the evening

As darkness set in Saturday, organizers in Tofino were assessing whether or not their ground search for seven-year-old William Pilkenton could safely continue through the evening hours, said RCMP Const. Susan Boyes.

She said searchers went well into the night on Friday. The full-scale search for the boy will continue at first light today.

Hundreds of people continued the search today for William, the curly haired Birmingham, Wash., youngster who vanished from the rugged Tofino waterfront Friday.

Hollywood studios sue Chinese website over movie piracy

The Motion Picture Association in Hollywood is suing a popular website in China for film piracy, seeking about $1 million US from the company responsible for the site.

The MPA accuses the Xunlei Networking Technology Co. of permitting users of its file-sharing service to download hundreds of movies from other websites, despite repeated warnings.

The move expands the MPA’s campaign against movie piracy in China, which it has estimated costs Hollywood studios more than $2.7 billion US a year in lost revenue.