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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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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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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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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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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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The Italian newspaper “Il Tempo” reports Rai News group will stop showing Islamic State videos on its channel (Rai News 24) and on its website (Rainews.it). A decision taken to avoid spreading the terrorist organization’s propaganda. Monica Maggioni, the channel director, explains: “We have taken this decision after months of discussion with all of the …
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The sudden closure in 2013 of the Greek public broadcaster ERT for economic reasons shocked many. On February 8th, during his policy speech to the new Greek parliament, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras announced legislation would be passed to reopen ERT, calling the closure “a crime against the Greeks and against democracy.” On the 27th the …
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