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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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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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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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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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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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For the first quarter of 2015, France Télévisions‘ net advertising sales revenue rose 4.5% compared to 2014, reaching €65.2 million. The increase is partly due to improved audience ratings for France 5 and particularly France 2, but also to the company’s move to digital. In two years advertising sales for digital content have doubled. For …
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BeIN Sports, the Qatari sports channel whose bouquet is available in Qatar, France, the USA and North Africa, will launch its sports channel in Spain on August 1st. Probably the channel will be broadcast on pay-TV platforms. The distribution agreement between Al Jazeera and Mediapro was announced by Jaume Roures at the New Communications Forum. …
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