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On February 23rd the Board of Directors of France Télévisions announced that a subscription-based video-on-demand platform would be launched by the autumn. The platform will be created using a new model in which the partners will be drama and animation producers and distributors who work with the group’s channels. Among them will be Newen, …
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The Turkish channel TRT World, broadcasting international news in English, has expanded its catchment area thanks to an agreement signed with the private telecommunications operator SES. Transmitted from the SES group’s three Astra satellite positions, TRT World (a subsidiary of TRT, the Turkish public broadcaster) has been available since January in continental Europe, the United …
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TraceToca is a Portuguese-language music channel specializing in Afro-Portuguese music in Angola and Mozambique. It was launched in Portugal on February 13th, exclusively on MEO (Portugal Telecom). Subscribers to MEObox, ADSL or Fibre, will be able to access TraceToca within Portugal. The channel has been available on SFR numéricable since June 2015 and on Free …
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According to a Médiamétrie survey, France 3 Corse Via Stella, with several new programmes, did well in the September ratings. The larger audience is particularly marked between 12.00 noon and 1.00pm and from 6.30pm to 7.30pm. Indeed, the midday news, Corsica Prima and the cooking programme Manghjià insieme each got 5 points more than in …
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The Spanish telecoms operator, Telefonica, hopes to produce around 14 original TV series by the end of 2018, thanks to an investment of €70 million this year (4 series for 2017 and 10 more for 2018). Luis Miguel Gilpérez, President of Telefónica España. Photography : JMCadenas / EXPANSIÓN The first series will be La Peste, …
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At the end of November, the Croatian parliament appointed Blago Markota as acting Director General of HRT, the country’s public broadcaster. Blago Markota joined HRT in 1999 as a financial analyst. Since then he has held various positions within the group: Marketing Director, member of Croatian Television’s Board of Directors, and then advisor to the …
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In early December a Lebanese court ordered the satellite operator Arabsat, based in Riyadh (Saudi Arabia), to resume transmitting Al Manar TV, which it had cut off in December 2015. In an action brought by Al Manar’s management, Hassan Hamdane, the Lebanese judge for urgent affairs, ruled that Arabsat must reopen Al Manar‘s signal on …
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