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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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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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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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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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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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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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Rome: on March 14th director Rolando Ravello began shooting “Immaturi – The Series”, a TV adaptation of Paolo Genovese’s two successful feature films “Immaturi” (2011) and “Immaturi – Il Viaggio” (2012). Shooting will take 6 months, split between the Italian capital and Sicily. The 8-episode series is being produced by Lotus Productions for Mediaset, with …
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