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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FRANCE / Good viewing figures for France 3 Corse Via Stella
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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SPAIN / Telefónica invests €70 million to produce original TV series for the channel Movistar Plus
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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CROATIA / An acting DG appointed at HRT
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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LEBANON / Arabsat ordered to continue broadcasting the Hezbollah channel
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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FRANCE / Death of Rémy Pflimlin, former chairman of France Télévisions
It is with deep sadness that we learned of the death on Saturday December 3rd, of Rémy Pflimlin, former chairman of France Télévisions. During his various terms of office in the group, he sustained and encouraged the CMCA (Centre Méditerranéen de la Communication Audiovisuelle), both when he was head of France 3 from 1999 and …
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FRANCE / The PACA Region now has 2 new local television channels
On December 1st the French broadcasting watchdog, the CSA (Conseil Supérieur de l’Audiovisuel) gave the go-ahead for the launch of two new television channels on DTT (canal 30) in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region. “Provence Azur” will broadcast in the Marseille area, and “Var Azur” in the Toulon-Hyères area. The CSA’s license for them to transmit …
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