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As part of Romania’s National Day, December 1st, the radio station RFI România was awarded the Cultural Order of Merit. It was presented to the station’s Director, Cornel Ion, by the Romanian President, Klaus Iohannis. In his speech the president emphasized “the professionalism, objectivity and dedication of the journalists working for this radio station which …
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The private channel Medi 1 TV, which until now has offered generalist programming, will become a news and discussion channel from 2016. In an interview with the Medias24 website its CEO, Abbas Azzouzi, detailed the reasons this reorientation. “Since the Arab Spring, several mainstream news channels have lost their lustre. Moroccan, North African and African …
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On November 30th Laurent Vallet, managing director of the Institut National de l’Audiovisuel (INA), appointed Jean-Marc Boero as General Secretary. He will take office on January 4th 2016 and will succeed Jean-Marc Auvray. Since 2003 M.Vallet has worked for the Public Sénat channel, successively as Deputy Secretary General, Director of Human Resources and Administration and …
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In November the Banijay Group production company acquired the rights to adapt the Israeli game show “Double or Nothing”. Developed in Israel by Armoza Formats and Studio Glam, the programme pits a pair of contestants against one opponent in a series of challenges. To win the stake money, the couple have to do twice as …
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On November 20th Télévision Tunisienne’s new interim managing director, Rached Younes, had talks in Tunis with the Palestinian Minister for the supervision of the media and the press, Riadh Al Hassen. The two sides agreed to sign a framework cooperation agreement focussing on the exchange of news reports between both country’s televisions. The Minister stressed …
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On November 18th the French-language channel TV5MONDE and the satellite/broadband operator Orange Romania announced they had signed a distribution agreement. TV5MONDE will now be available in the World HD package, which has 250,000 subscribers. According to a statement released by the channel, Romania is TV5MONDE‘s “leading audience base in Europe”, after France, Belgium and Switzerland. …
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On November 15th Türksat removed 13 radio and television channels from its satellite package, all of which had been condemned by the private operator Digitürk in late October because of their “litigious content”. The channels in question are all owned by the Samanyolu Media Group (Samanyolu Haber, Mehtap TV, Ebru TV). In October Türksat, a …
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