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In early March Ingrid Deltenre, Director General of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), sent a letter to the Romanian Prime Minister, Dacian Cioloş, asking for a “rapid response” from his government to save the country’s public broadcaster, TVR. She highlights the “significant debt” faced by the organisation, which she believes is threatened by “financial collapse”, …
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On February 27th Ahmed Lahri, presenter of the 7:00pm News on the public Canal Algérie, was officially removed from the channel, a decision confirmed the next day by the Minister of Communication, Hamid Grine. Lahri is accused of having “spoken the name of Abdelaziz Bouteflika [President of the Algerian Republic] without mentioning his title” …
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In a press release issued on March 1st, the Eurovision network announced it had opened a business hub in Dubai “to support the growth of its activities in the region”. The office is located in the heart of Dubai Media City, a Free Zone housing more than a thousand media companies, including the regional offices …
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In Galicia, Northwest Spain, Galician has been an official language since 1983, on an equal footing with Castilian. But in reality, teachers and associations are fighting to keep this part of their identity alive. Boosting Morocco’s date harvest by using advanced research techniques: that’s why the country is investing €650 million in the sector between …
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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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