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On July 19th the Bosnian Parliament rejected the draft reform on public broadcasting funding, which includes the public television service BHRT. The idea behind the reform was to include each person’s TV license fee with their electricity bill, a method recently adopted in Italy. At present the fee is part of the bill for fixed …
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has decided once again to postpone the launch date of the new public service broadcaster. The Prime Minister was finally convinced by his Finance Minister, Moshe Kahlon, that the replacement will not be ready in time. The current broadcaster, the IBA, with three television and eight radio stations, was due to …
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Meeting on July 28th, the board of directors of the Italian group Mediaset refused to renegotiate the terms of the agreement signed with Vivendi in April. According to this contract, Vivendi was supposed to buy Mediaset Premium, a pay-TV platform, and buy 3.5% of Mediaset’s capital. But on July 26th the French group, owned by …
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From July 18th to 25th the CMCA (Centre Méditerranéen de la Communication Audiovisuelle) and INA Méditerranée (Institut National de l’Audiovisuel) organized the ninth training session for making news reports using archive material. Seven Mediterranean television stations, each a member of the CMCA, sent trainees to Marseille for the week. The session began with two days …
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The interface and layout of the Euronews web-site has just been completely made over. The pan-European channel based in Lyon now offers users an experience in keeping with its slogan: “All views”. The aim, according to the Euronews press-release, is that by combining many different sources of information from around the world – articles, quotes, …
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After Netflix in 2014, another American SVOD (subscription video on demand) giant will probably soon be available in three major European markets. According to the daily newspaper Le Figaro, the Amazon group plans to introduce its Amazon Prime video service in Spain, France and Italy by the end of 2016. The launch could even occur …
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On July 13th a renewable two-year partnership agreement was signed in Rome between Arte and Rai Com. The agreement was ratified by Peter Boudgoust, Arte’s chair, Monica Maggioni, Rai’s chair, Antonio Campo dall’Orto, Rai’s managing director and Gian Paolo Tagliavia, chair of Rai Com. Its purpose is to develop co-productions and cooperation between the Franco-German …
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