Category: LIFE IN THE CHANNELS

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FRANCE / Partnership agreement between the Institut du monde arabe and France Médias Monde

On Tuesday, March 31st, Jack Lang, chair of the Institut du monde arabe (IMA) and Marie-Christine Saragosse, chair of France Médias Monde, signed a partnership agreement to strengthen cooperation. The France Médias Monde Group includes France24, a trilingual news channel, RFI, a global radio station, and Monte Carlo Doualiya, a general-interest radio station in Arabic. …

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FRANCE / TV5MONDE confirme son succès dans les pays du Maghreb

According to the 2014 Maghreboscope, TV5MONDE has maintained its position as the leading French-language channel in North Africa, with 10.5% of the weekly audience aged 15 years and over, an increase of 3.6 points compared to 2013 . In the Executives and Managers category, TV5MONDE is also the most popular French-language channel in North Africa …

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FRANCE / Via Stella: Audience growth in Corsica

Via Stella, France Télévisions’ channel for Corsica and the Mediterranean, has announced “the audience share in its territory for the period September-December 2014 reached 5.9%, up 1.3 points in one year.” The channel added it “occupies the third position of most-watched channels in Corsica” with a cumulative audience of 34.5% — up 7.9% in a …

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ISRAEL / i24News: Paul Amar starts work

The journalist Paul Amar, formerly news-reader on France2 and host of two France5 magazines “Revu et corrigé” and “19h Paul Amar”, comes to i24news, an international news channel broadcast in French, English and Arabic, launched by Patrick Drahi. Amar will spend a few months working on the organization and editorial aspects as well as the …

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TUNISIA / M24 TV: Tunisia’s new entertainment channel

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At a press conference on March 10th, the M24 Media Group announced the Tunisian launch of Maghreb24 TV, dedicated to music and entertainment. It will be transmitted on the Nilesat satellite. The programme director, Wahbi Ben Rhouma, said the schedule will include music videos and entertainment programmes of less than 30 minutes. The channel will …

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FRANCE / Euronews: Naguib Sawiris new majority shareholder

The European 24-hour news channel, Euronews, created in 1993 by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), should see its capital increase with the arrival of a private shareholder. On February 24th the decision was approved by the Supervisory Board. Exclusive negotiations about an injection of capital from one of Naguib Sawiris’ companies had been entrusted to …

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SPAIN / Transfer of FC Barcelona’s TV rights to Telefonica

FC Barcelona, a soccer club, announced on its website it had sold its TV rights to Telefonica on February 18th, thus terminating its contract with Mediapro. “The financial offers of Telefonica and Mediapro were identical. Our decision was strategic: Telefonica is a company that wants to expand globally, taking a bet on innovation” announced vice-chairman …

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