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