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ITALY / Mediaset Premium: increase in number of subscribers

By September 30th Mediaset Premium’s pay TV had 1.81 million subscribers, exceeding the target set in the Quarterly Budget for July-September 2015, the group said in a statement published on October 9th, with 112,000 more subscribers than at end of June (1.703 million). These figures do not include customers with pre-paid cards. Mediaset has set …

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ITALY / “Suburra”, Netflix Italian series

In a press release on October 5th, the video-on-demand service Netflix announced its first Italian co-production, “Suburra”, in partnership with the production company Cattleya and in collaboration with Rai. Cattleya is already busy with successful series such as “Gomorra” and “Romanzo Criminale”. “Suburra” is an adaptation of Stefano Sollima’s film of the same name released …

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ITALY / Tension in the air filming “Gomorra”

The Italian series “Gomorra”, adapted from Roberto Saviano’s novel, has just started filming its second season. However, several districts and  suburbs of Naples such as Giuliano, Acerra and Afragola do not welcome the filming of this series about the Neapolitan Mafia, the Camorra. Thus, as the newspaper Le Monde said: “the mayors and administrators of …

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ITALY / Good audience for “Woman with a Camera”

Karima Zoubir’s documentary “Woman with a Camera”, winner of the Rai 3 Broadcasting Award at PriMed 2014, aired on the Italian channel on August 12th at 11h40pm. It was watched by 411,000 viewers, or 5.57% of the public. The documentary is about Khadija, a young Moroccan woman, illiterate and divorced, who, despite strong resistance from …

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ITALY SPAIN PORTUGAL / Netflix arrives

Italy-Spain-Portugal / Netflix arrives The giant American video-on-demand provider, available since September 2014 in France and in more than 50 countries including 13 in Europe, is expanding its services to three new countries. In Spain Netflix will launch its platform on October 20th, in Portugal on October 21st and in Italy on October 22nd. An …

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ITALY / Project to include television licence fee in each electricity bill

In an interview on “In mezz’ora” on Rai 3, the Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi announced the government has plans to lower the television licence fee, known as the “canone Rai”, commenting on current speculation that the fee would be included in everybody’s electricity bill. The aim is to halt tax evasion, practised by 30% …

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ITALY / The Winners of the 27th URTI International Radio Grand Prix

The 27th URTI International Radio Grand Prix received a large number of entries from 28 countries on the theme “Multiculturalism”. The jury was made up of ten people from broadcasting, chaired by Mihaela Schefer, Head of International Projects at Radio Rai. They met in Turin (Italy) from September 20th to 22nd at the invitation of …

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