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HBO and Rai have announced they are co-producing an eight-episode series adapted from Elena Ferrante’s four-volume “My Brilliant Friend”. These four books, about two young women born in post-war Naples, were originally published between 2011 and 2014 and are still being translated into a dozen languages. They have already been a huge success in France, …
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In May the Bouches-du-Rhône department will once again have a privately-run local TV channel, Provence Azur. It will be available on channel 30 of DTT, previously used by TV Sud Provence and before that by LCM. After a call for applications to replace TV Sud Provence, the CSA chose Provence Azur last June. Two …
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A new agreement was reached between the SECOM group and My-HD, a satellite operator, to broadcast two channels, Melody (classic French songs) and MyZen TV (lifestyle), across the Middle East and Africa (the Mena area). The two companies also agreed to launch Melody d’Afrique, a channel specialising in African song and its artists. Melody …
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France 24 has signed a major new distribution agreement with pan-Arab operator beIn Sport Mena, the second largest Arab-world pay-TV platform. With this agreement the international news channel hopes to strengthen its presence in the Middle East and North Africa and thus gain 890,000 additional households. France 24 is now available on channel 149 in …
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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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