Category: LIFE IN THE CHANNELS

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MOROCCO / 2M launches “Africa Women Experts”, a digital platform for women

2M

On November 5th the “Parity and Diversity” committee of the Moroccan channel 2M announced the launch of the first digital platform for professional African women. Khadija Boujanoui, chair of the committee, said the ambition of this “constructive interaction platform [is] to create a dialogue between well-qualified women on the African continent,” adding that the goal …

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ALBANIA / Launch of Euronews Albania

Euronews Albania

On Monday, November 5th Euronews announced the launch of its first franchise, in Albania. The French group, founded in 1993 and based in Lyon, has teamed up with IN Media Group to launch “Euronews Albania”. As of next year, Euronews Albania will be offering television content and digital media targeted at Albanian-speaking viewers and Internet …

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TURKEY / Serdar Karagoz joins Turkish public television

Serdar Karagoz

On October 15th Ibrahim Eren,  General Manager of Turkey’s state-run broadcaster TRT, appointed Serdar Karagoz as editor-in-chief of the International News Channels – TRT World and TRT Arabic. This appointment is part of a restructuring of Turkish public television. Serdar Karagoz is a Political Science graduate of Istanbul’s Bilgi University. He also has a master’s …

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ITALY / A journalist, Marcello Foa, appointed to run RAI

Marcello Foa

On September 26th, Marcello Foa was appointed the new chairman of RAI, the Italian public broadcaster. The decision was made by the parliamentary committee supervising the group after the government intervened. An Italian-Swiss journalist, Foa succeeds Monica Maggioni at the head of Italian public broadcasting. A graduate in political science, Marcello Foa began his career …

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CROATIA / HRT loses broadcasting rights for the national team’s matches

Logo HRT

HRT, the Croatian public broadcaster, has lost the rights to broadcast the national football team’s matches. Nova TV, the most-watched channel in the country, has acquired them for the next four years. Created in 2000, Nova TV was Croatia’s first commercial television. Its CEO, Dražen Mavrić has said he wants to develop the group further …

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TUNISIA / Mohamed Lassaad Dahech to run Télévision Tunisienne

photo M. Lassad Dahech

Last July the head of the Tunisian government, Youssef Chahed, proposed three candidates for the post of chairman and CEO of the Établissement de la Télévision Tunisienne (ETT): Lassaad Dahech, Mahmoud Bounab and Khaled Njah. The Haute autorité indépendante de la communication audiovisuelle (HAICA) then reviewed each candidate’s files and interviewed them individually. As a …

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TUNISIA / Three men in line for the CEO of the Etablissement de la Télévision Tunisienne

On July 5th the government sent a list of three names to HAICA, to help the Authority select the future CEO of the Tunisian Television Establishment. On July 11th the three candidates (Khaled Njah, Mohamed Lassaad Dahech and Mahmoud Bouneb) each presented their programme for the ETT if they are appointed. Sources: realites.com, espace manager …

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