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FRANCE / Numéro 23: sale and purchase

On April 2nd there was an announcement about the forthcoming sale of the DTT channel Numéro 23. Pascal Houzelot, boss of Numéro 23, has apparently entered exclusive negotiations with the NextRadioTV group who run BFM TV, RMC and RMC Découverte. The group could be willing pay €88.3 million for the channel, split two ways: €48.3 …

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FRANCE / France Télévisions’ advertising sales rise

For the first quarter of 2015, France Télévisions‘ net advertising sales revenue rose 4.5% compared to 2014, reaching €65.2 million. The increase is partly due to improved audience ratings for France 5 and particularly France 2, but also to the company’s move to digital. In two years advertising sales for digital content have doubled. For …

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FRANCE / TV5 Monde: a major hacking attack

On the night of April 8th to 9th the French channel TV5 Monde was hacked by a group calling themselves Cybercaliphate. For Hélène Zemmour, the channel’s digital director, it was a “historic attack, something completely new”. The damage was considerable: in a very short time employees’ work-place mailboxes were cut, social networks and the web-site …

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FRANCE / Delphine Ernotte Cunci, first woman to run France Télévisions

On Thursday, April 23rd the CSA (Conseil Supérieur de l’Audiovisuel – France’s broadcasting watchdog) chose Delphine Ernotte Cunci to run France Télévisions for the next five years. She will take over from Rémy Pflimlin on August 22nd. Until the appointment she was Executive Director at Orange, where she has spent her entire career. At 48, …

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FRANCE / Screening documentary “The Lost Signal of Democracy”

“The Lost Signal of Democracy” Screening organised by the CMCA in partnership with the Alcazar and Marseille’s Centre Régional d’Information Jeunesse   Yorgos Avgeropoulos’ documentary “The Lost Signal of Democracy”, winner of the Reportage Award at the 2014 PriMed, will be screened at the Alcazar Library in Marseille on Saturday, May 30th at 2:00 pm. …

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FRANCE / An agreement signed between Avitem and the CMCA

On the sidelines of the AGM and the Directors’ meeting, the CMCA signed an agreement with Avitem (Agency for Sustainable Mediterranean Towns and Territories) to define ways in which the two organisations can work together. Our collaboration would be for broadcasting cooperation in the short and medium term, joint projects and / or calls for …

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FRANCE / CMCA has a new board of directors

During the recent board meeting, held at Marseille’s Villa Méditerranée on April 28th, a new board of directors was elected with a three-year mandate 2015-2018: Hervé Michel, Head of International Affairs at France Télévisions, was elected chair of the CMCA. Vice-chairs: Ahmed Djabri, Deputy Director of External Relations at EPTV (Algerian television), and Maria Du …

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