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The American video streaming giant, YouTube, owned by Google, has brought together 7,000 hours of Arab-made television series dating from 1962 to today. Mosalsalat (“Series” in Arabic) gives free access from any country in the world to programmes made in the Middle East and North Africa. Of the 500 series available, half are Syrian, for …
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On September 22nd the new head of the Tunisian government, Chahed Youssef, appointed journalist and producer Elyes Gharbi to run the Etablissement de la Télévision Tunisienne (ETT). Two days earlier Tunisia’s broadcasting watch-dog, the Haute Autorité Indépendante de la Communication Audiovisuelle (HAICA), whose consultation is mandatory before the head of public broadcasting can be appointed, …
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On September 2nd, after 63 hours of bidding, the Greek government awarded the 4 broadcasting licenses for national television channels it had put up for auction as part of its major broadcasting reform. Beginning on August 30th the auction was held under very strict, closely watched conditions. With the final bids in, three businessmen and …
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On August 19th Mediaset announced it was taking Vivendi to court in Milan to honour the terms of the contract signed by the two media groups in April. In a statement, Mediaset said “the summons is not about the serious losses (more than €1.5 billion) which would ensue if the contract were cancelled.” However, the …
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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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