Category: LIFE IN THE CHANNELS

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SPAIN / RTVE ends 2015 in the red

In 2015 the Spanish public broadcaster RTVE made an operating loss of €37.8 million. A statement issued after a Board of Directors’ meeting claimed the deficit was caused by “insufficient income” and should be indemnified by the state, as provided by the law regulating RTVE’s finance. The group’s channels also had poor audience ratings in …

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QATAR / Al Jazeera to cut 500 jobs

The Qatari group Al Jazeera will soon make redundant 500 of its employees worldwide, including 300 at its headquarters in Doha. In an announcement on March 27th, Mostefa Souag, Al Jazeera’s acting managing director, explained these job cuts are designed to “optimize” the group’s productivity and allow it to “maintain its leading position”, assuring staff …

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FRANCE / Numéro 23 keeps its broadcasting license

On March 30th the French Conseil d’Etat annulled the decision made by the Conseil Supérieur de l’Audiovisuel (CSA – the French broadcasting watchdog), to revoke the broadcasting license of a channel called Numéro 23. If the CSA’s sanction, published in October 2015, had gone through, this private channel, available on free DTT, would have stopped …

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ITALY / An agreement Vivendi/Mediaset being negotiated

While at the beginning of the week we learned that the French group Vivendi had approached the Italian Mediaset “for cooperation […] over content”, the newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore gave details on March 24th of the progress of negotiations. The newspaper said the Franco-Tunisian producer Tarak Ben Ammar would be responsible for leading discussions …

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GREECE / TV5 Monde broadcast on Greek TNT

On March 18th Yves Bigot, head of TV5 Monde , was in Athens to sign a partnership agreement with the Greek public service broadcaster, ERT. Under the agreement, the French-language channel’s signal will now be available on all the Greek DTT networks. In a statement, TV5Monde estimated 4.5 million Greek households will be able to …

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ITALY / €4 million profit for Mediaset in 2015

On March 22nd the Italian group Mediaset published its 2015 results, revealing a net profit of €4 million, down 83% compared to 2014 (€23.7 million). Silvio Berlusconi’s company has justified this fall in profits by claiming it had to prepare for “future amendments to income tax”. Excluding these provisions, net profit was €28.9 million. The …

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TUNISIE FRANCE / Launch of a joint programme on Al Wataniya 1 and France 24

At the end of March, Tunisia’s principle public channel, Al Wataniya 1, and the 24-hour news channel France 24, launched a joint magazine programme, “Paris-Tunis, Tunis-Paris”. Co-produced by the two channels, the programme is recorded alternately between Paris and Tunis, and broadcast on the last Friday of the month, simultaneously on both channels from 7:10 …

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