Category: LIFE IN THE CHANNELS

Latest breaking news and information about mediterranean televisions and institutions

ISRAEL / Purchase of the Israeli Channel 10

The Israeli Media Group RGE has announced the acquisition of Channel 10. This entertainment channel, one of only two private channels in the country, has been facing considerable financial problems since 2011. RGE has redeemed its debt of over 10 million shekel, to own a 51% stake. RGE also had to buy the broadcasting license …

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FRANCE / “Still Standing”: adaptation of an Israeli game

D8, in association with the Belgian channel RTL-TVi, is adapting the Israeli game show “Lauf al Hamilton”. It will be called “Still standing”. The principle of the game is that a candidate tries to eliminate the ten other candidates one by one in duels about general culture. It has been adapted in various countries, including …

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EGYPT / “El Mashrou3”

After the success of its first season, aired on Al Nahar, the reality TV programme “El Mashrou3” has found finance to launch a second season. In 2009 Anna Elliott, a young American woman, created the Bamyan Media Production Company to launch “El Mashrou3” (The Project). In the show young Egyptian entrepreneurs compete against each other …

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UAE / Partnership between Discovery and Image Nation

In the last quarter of 2015 Discovery Communication, the American television group belonging to Discovery Holding Company, in partnership with Image Nation, Abu Dhabi Media’s film production subsidiary, will launch “Quest Arabiya”, a new free TV channel in Arabic. The channel will broadcast across the Middle East and North Africa and is primarily aimed at …

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ALGERIA / Government threat to close private television stations

In a statement the ministry of communications has warned the heads of some private television channels (Ennahar TV, Echorouk TV, Dzair TV, DjazairiaTV and El Hogar TV) about broadcasting violent programmes and trivializing violence. The Algerian government has asked the heads of these channels, “to immediately take strict measures” to remove from the programme schedules …

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TUNISIA / Arrival of M Tunisia

The Tunisian media landscape has just welcomed a new television channel M Tunisia, aimed primarily at women, youth and children. It takes over from Al Moutawassit, bought by Faisal Tebourski and Adel Ben Khalifa and will transmit on Nilesat. The channel’s launch was announced at a press conference on June 8th during which the new …

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MOROCCO / Medi1 TV: refurbishing the production system

The Moroccan private “info-tainment” channel, Medi1 TV, broadcasting in Arabic and French, has just approved an overhaul of its whole production system. The French company Videlio Preview won the contract to oversee this modernization process which will give the channel more modern production methods, and thus higher quality programmes, in line with its ambitions to …

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