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The Podemos party has set November 29th 2016 as the date RTVV, the Comunitat Valenciana’s new public broadcaster, will resume transmission. Under an agreement signed in 2015, it is the radical left party’s responsibility to recommission Valencia’s public broadcaster. The date is symbolic: three years ago, on November 20th 2013, after broadcasting for 24 years, …
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The Board of Directors of Rai, meeting on February 18th, agreed the appointment of new Directors to head the group’s various channels. Andrea Fabiano, 39, takes the reins of Rai 1, becoming the main channel’s youngest director. Having been head of marketing for the Rai Group, he became Rai’s Deputy Director on January 1st 2015. …
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Rachid Niny to launch a new channel on Moroccan television: TM TV. Rachid Niny is a Moroccan journalist, columnist and editor. He has founded and co-founded several Moroccan newspapers and magazines (including Al Massae Magazine, Le Soir Echos, Nejma and the daily Al Akhbar). Today he’s branching out into broadcasting by preparing to launch a …
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Arav, the Algerian broadcasting watchdog, has no chairman. The incumbent, Miloud Chorfi, has been appointed Senator and has to leave office.
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Just three years after its creation, the Al-Jazeera America channel has announced it will close at the end of April. “Our business model is simply no longer viable in the light of the economic challenges facing the US media market,” said Mostefa Souag, the group’s CEO, in an internal note seen by AFP.
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On Wednesday, January 27th Al-Jazeera announced it was taking Egypt to an arbitration tribunal connected to the World Bank. Al-Jazeera accuses Egypt of “confiscating” its investments and causing “a loss of at least $150 million”.
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Portugal is a country where the choice of what to watch on television is not great. Where France has 25 free channels with TNT, Portuguese viewers have only five operators to choose from: RTP1, RTP2 , SIC, TVI and ARTV.
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