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FRANCE / The Conseil Supérieur de l’Audiovisuel appoints women to run Radio France and France Media Monde

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On April 16th Sibyle Veil was named as the new head of Radio France, where she has been Deputy Director in charge of Operations and Finance. The new appointment is for five years, and Mme Veil replaces Mathieu Gallet, dismissed at the beginning of the year by the Conseil Supérieur de l’Audiovisuel, the French media …

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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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CROATIA / HRT and Eutelsat have signed an agreement for international broadcasting

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Croatia’s public television, HRT, has signed a multi-year agreement with the Eutelsat satellite to broadcast its HRT-HTV channel, an education, entertainment and news channel, outside the country via satellite, in this case Hotbird. The channel’s content is in Croatian, but there are also programmes in English, Spanish and German. The agreement will enable the channel …

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MOROCCO / 2M receives an award for its initiative “Africawomenexperts.com”

2M’s “Parity and Diversity Committee” was created in 2013 to fight all forms of discrimination, including inequalities between women and men. In particular it created the web-site “Expertes.ma”, a database of women specialists in more than 150 fields. The web-site is primarily intended for journalists and media professionals who wish to increase the presence of …

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TUNISIA / The government puts forward candidates for Tunisian television’s top job

The Haute Autorité Indépendante de la Communication Audiovisuelle (HAICA) has announced the government shortlist of candidates for the position of Tunisian television’s CEO. There are three of them: Najoua Rahoui, Mahmoud Bouned and Abdelmajid Mraïhi. The latter has been acting chairman since June 2017. While awaiting the government’s final selection, made with HAICA’s input, the …

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ALGERIA / The Algerian channel Echourouk Internationale will transmit in France

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On March 20th, to celebrate the 6th anniversary of the Echourouk group, chairman Ali Fodil announced the creation of “Echourouk International”. The new channel will be broadcast via two European satellites, Hotbird and Astra, and its programmes will be offered in French, Arabic and Tamazight. Echourouk TV also announced it will open an office in …

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ISRAEL / Israeli television to broadcast the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Arabic and for free

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According to the Arabic Facebook page of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation will transmit the soccer World Cup for free in Arabic. In 2010, Israel tried unsuccessfully to buy the rights. This year it managed to obtain them – for €6.3 million. The matches will be shown on the …

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