Category: LIFE IN THE CHANNELS

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MOROCCO / A new comedy series on 2M

In addition to the follow-ons of last year’s successes, 2M has several new offerings for Ramadan 2015: new comedy series include “Nejma w Qamar”, “Al khawasser”, “F Salone” while fans of the hit sitcom “Kenza F’Douar” will find its second season is called “Nayda F’Douar”. Actor Hicham Bahloul will be back on the small screen …

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TUNISIA / The different TV schedules over Ramadan

This year, Attasiaa TV, present in the Tunisian media landscape since April 18th, offers a new police series “Bolice-Hala Adiya”, soap operas such as “Lilet Achak” and “Leilat Echchak”, a sitcom “Ismail et Chouchou” and a hidden camera programme “Ettayara”. Meanwhile Hannibal TV will be broadcasting Nasreddine Sehili’s new series “Le Risque”. Nessma TV will …

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FRANCE / CSA: Call for candidates TNT HD

On March 27th the CSA (Conseil Supérieur de l’Audiovisuelle) published a candidate call “for publishing nationwide television services broadcast terrestrially in HD. This call is part of the development of the digital terrestrial television (DTT) platform” which, in April 2016, will go from a compression standard of MPEG-2 to MPEG-4. In its statement, the CSA …

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FRANCE / Agreement between Canal Plus and the renewed French cinema

According to a press release on May 18th, the Canal Plus Group, the largest private funder of French cinema, announced the completion of a “Cinema Agreement with all the professional cinema organizations (PRA, BLIC, BLOC, UPF). The 5 year agreement confirms the historical and virtuous partnership between CANAL Plus and French cinema.” AFP and Le …

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TUNISIA / New radio: Radio Med

Radio Med is a private radio station which began airing on May 5th, founded and managed by Zouheir Essid. It broadcasts on FM bands around Greater Tunis and Cap-bon from its premises in Nabeul. It is particularly aimed at a young audience, seeing itself as a multicultural general interest channel with a variety of programmes …

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GREECE / Nominations to run ERT

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On April 29th the Greek Parliament adopted a law re-instating the country’s public broadcaster ERT: on May 12th the government appointed its Board of Directors. Following a call for candidates, 153 people sent in their CV. Songwriter Dionysis Tsaknis was appointed ERT chairman and journalist Lambis Tagmatarhis, managing director. He held the same job at …

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FRANCE / Numéro 23: sale and purchase

On April 2nd there was an announcement about the forthcoming sale of the DTT channel Numéro 23. Pascal Houzelot, boss of Numéro 23, has apparently entered exclusive negotiations with the NextRadioTV group who run BFM TV, RMC and RMC Découverte. The group could be willing pay €88.3 million for the channel, split two ways: €48.3 …

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