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FRANCE ITALY GERMANY / France Télévisions, Rai TV and ZDF create “Alliance”

At the “Series Mania” festival in Lille, France Télévisions, Rai and ZDF announced they are creating a pan-European broadcasting group, Alliance, which will offer viewers high budget drama series. For Delphine Ernotte, chair of France Televisions, Europe must “take advantage of [its] strengths, [its] diversity and [its] incredible cultural wealth” to compete with large groups …

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ITALY / Rai keeps the broadcasting rights for the Coppa Italia

Rai TV, in competition with Mediaset, has managed to keep the broadcasting rights and live broadcast exclusivity for the Coppa Italia, the national football competition, for the period 2018-2021. The Italian public broadcasting group will pay 35.5 million euros a year – a 60% increase over the previous period. Rai Chief Executive Mario Orfeo said …

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ITALY / 22nd “Cartoons on the Bay”

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For the second year running Turin hosted “Cartoons on the Bay”, an international festival of cross-media animation and children’s television from April 12th to 14th. The event was organized by Rai Com and sponsored by Rai, with the Piedmontese Region also very involved in the project. The festival programme this year was very varied – …

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ITALY / The CEO of Rai Cinema presents the latest co-productions

Paolo Del Brocco, CEO of Rai Cinema gave a press conference on April 11th to present the group’s international co-productions. In particular, he cited productions with prestigious directors: “Everybody Knows” with Iranian director Asghar Farhadi, his first film in Spanish; “Il peccato” with Russian director Andrei Konchalovskye and “Opera senza autore” with German director Florian …

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ITALY / Rai TV signs an agreement with Amazon

Amazon has signed an agreement with Rai Television to include recent films, some film classics and the channel’s own TV series on its Italian video platform. The series concerned will be the most successful ones, such as “Medici: Masters of Florence”. Every new episode of a series being broadcast will be available on Amazon just …

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ITALY / TivùSat extends its offer

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The TivùSat satellite broadcasting platform (DTH) is adding the Cine Sonny cinema channel to its offering. Cine Sonny is operated by Sony Pictures Television Networks (SPTN), showing mainstream films but also documentaries on the history of cinema. It will be the second SPTN channel on TivùSat. TivùSat transmits more than a hundred channels, 38 in …

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ITALY / A digital cultural centre will open in Milan

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The Cariplo foundation, a philanthropic organisation supporting social, cultural and economic development, and the platform Meet the Media Guru, active since 2005, have united to launch MEET, Italy’s first international centre for digital culture, in Milan. The centre will help bridge the digital divide and make Milan a local and international reference for digital culture. …

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