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On April 8th the Italian group Mediaset announced the sale of its entire pay-TV subsidiary Mediaset Premium, which has two million subscribers. Vivendi’s supervisory board approved the €800 million transaction. 89% of Mediaset Premium’s capital was held by Mediaset, while the remaining 11% belonged to the Spanish group Telefonica. Furthermore, as rumoured recently, Vivendi and …
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From April 27th to 30th, Regard Sud, an association based in Lyon, is organising the 16th Cinémas du Sud festival, focussing on North African and Middle Eastern films. Over 4 days, 9 films from 8 countries of the Arab world will be screened at the Institut Lumière. The Tunisan director Ferid Boughedir, will be this …
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On March 30th the French Conseil d’Etat annulled the decision made by the Conseil Supérieur de l’Audiovisuel (CSA – the French broadcasting watchdog), to revoke the broadcasting license of a channel called Numéro 23. If the CSA’s sanction, published in October 2015, had gone through, this private channel, available on free DTT, would have stopped …
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The candidate call for the 20th PriMed has been extended! New deadline for registering films: APRIL 10th 2016, final limit! Registering films for PriMed is FREE. Click here to access the registration forms and the rules. The 20th PriMed will be held in Marseille from November 19th to 26th 2016. PriMed – the International Awards …
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While at the beginning of the week we learned that the French group Vivendi had approached the Italian Mediaset “for cooperation […] over content”, the newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore gave details on March 24th of the progress of negotiations. The newspaper said the Franco-Tunisian producer Tarak Ben Ammar would be responsible for leading discussions …
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On March 18th Yves Bigot, head of TV5 Monde , was in Athens to sign a partnership agreement with the Greek public service broadcaster, ERT. Under the agreement, the French-language channel’s signal will now be available on all the Greek DTT networks. In a statement, TV5Monde estimated 4.5 million Greek households will be able to …
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On March 22nd, at the end of the CMCA’s board meeting in Marseille, Jérôme Cathala was unanimously elected the association’s chairman. He takes over from Hervé Michel, who has been the CMCA chair since October 2013 but has recently been appointed head of TV France International. On February 1st Jérôme Cathala was appointed France Télévisions’ …
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