Category: LIFE IN THE CHANNELS

Latest breaking news and information about mediterranean televisions and institutions

FRANCE / NextRadioTV: purchase of the VODEO platform

In a statement on March 5th, the NextRadioTV Group announced it has purchased VODEO from the Figaro Group. Dedicated to documentaries, VODEO is a VOD / SVOD platform (video-on-demand and subscription video-on-demand) with a catalogue of nearly 5,000 programmes, cable distribution agreements, ADSL and about 3,000 SVOD subscribers. NextRadioTV’s objective is to become the leader …

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FRANCE ISRAEL / Partnership between TF1, Ryan Seacrest Productions and Armoza Formats for a TV game

The American production company Ryan Seacrest Productions, the French TF1 and the Israeli Armoza Formats have partnered to develop a new TV game “Babushka”. It will be presented at MIPTV, the international television exhibition, in Cannes from April 13th to 16th. The game is based on Russian dolls. Candidates face ten of them. Each doll …

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ITALY / Mediaset: net income increase

The Mediaset Group ended the fiscal year 2014 with a net profit of €23.7 million, an increase of €8.9 million over 2013. Consolidated revenue remains almost unchanged: €3,414.4 billion against €3,414.7 billion in 2013. The group will donate a dividend of €0.02 per share. Debt declined from €1.4 billion to €861.4 million. Despite the recovery …

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MOROCCO / The series “L’Couple” discontinued

The series “L’Couple” directed by Amir Rouani and broadcast on 2M during Ramadan will not have a third season. The series centred on a Moroccan couple in their sixties, Lhaj Kabbour and Chaibia, going about their everyday life in a humorous way. Hassan El Fad, the actor who plays the character of Lhaj Kabbour, said …

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MOROCCO / Morocco has its own equivalent of “Fort Boyard”

“Jazirat Al Kanz” is the new programme from 2M, on air since February 24th. It’s the Moroccan version of a popular French game-show “Fort Boyard”, already adapted in many countries. Filmed entirely in the famous Fort Boyard near La Rochelle in France during the summer 2014, it consists of ten weekly 52-minute prime-time slots. Several …

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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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