News about audiovisual in western Europe region (France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Malta, etc)
Lagardère Active has announced the acquisition of an 82% stake in Grupo Boomerang TV (Grupo BTV). The remaining 18% are still owned by the founding members, who will continue the daily management of the Group. Created in 1998, Grupo BTV is a leading independent Spanish producer for broadcasting (drama and once-only TV) and has initiated …
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Mediaset España and Grupo Godó have signed an agreement for the former to buy 40% of the capital of Catalunya Emissions Digital SA. Until now this company has been the exclusive property of Grupo Godó, owner of several channels in Catalonia (8TV RAC 105 TV, Barça TV). The newspaper “La vanguardia” reports that this alliance …
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On May 14th the Spanish Parliament passed a new law concerning the sale of television rights in Spanish football. It establishes a collective distribution of the income from TV rights to reduce the current imbalances between how much La Liga’s small and large clubs receive. 92% of the rights will be allocated to professional football …
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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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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 May 20th the French Cabinet appointed Laurent Vallet chairman of the Institut National de l’Audiovisuel (INA). Previously he had been managing director of the IFCIC (Institut pour le Financement du Cinéma et des Industries Culturelles). He takes over from Agnes Saal, who resigned last April at the request of the Minister of Culture, Fleur …
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