Category: WESTERN EUROPE

News about audiovisual in western Europe region (France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Malta, etc)

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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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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FRANCE / Ecrans de Babel in collaboration with the CMCA and PriMed

Babel Med Music will be extended with a selection of films and documentaries about world music to be screened on March 26th and 27th. The rendez-vous is at the heart of Babel, on the mezzanine of Dock des Suds Free entry This is the programme, worked out in collaboration with the CMCA (Centre Méditerranéen de …

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ITALY / Partnerships needed for Alessandro Di Rienzo and Luca Manunza’s new documentary: “Il sindaco”

Alessandro Di Rienzo (director of “Ist’imariyah”, prize-winner at the 2006 PriMed) and Luca Manunza (media activist who has worked on environmental issues in Campania, and social movements in Turkey) are wrapped up in a documentary subject set in the luminous, yet darkly threatening south of Italy. The focus is an elderly former mayor, Mario Luise. …

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THE NETHERLANDS / New Hubert Bals Fund + Europe

The Hubert Bals Fund (Rotterdam International Film Festival) has extended its support offering with the creation of a new international co-production fund called HBF + Europe. This new fund will support European producers coming in as minority co-producers on feature films being made by young directors from Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and …

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