News about audiovisual in western Europe region (France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Malta, etc)
While at the beginning of the week we learned that the French group Vivendi had approached the Italian Mediaset “for cooperation […] over content”, the newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore gave details on March 24th of the progress of negotiations. The newspaper said the Franco-Tunisian producer Tarak Ben Ammar would be responsible for leading discussions …
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On March 18th Yves Bigot, head of TV5 Monde , was in Athens to sign a partnership agreement with the Greek public service broadcaster, ERT. Under the agreement, the French-language channel’s signal will now be available on all the Greek DTT networks. In a statement, TV5Monde estimated 4.5 million Greek households will be able to …
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On March 22nd the Italian group Mediaset published its 2015 results, revealing a net profit of €4 million, down 83% compared to 2014 (€23.7 million). Silvio Berlusconi’s company has justified this fall in profits by claiming it had to prepare for “future amendments to income tax”. Excluding these provisions, net profit was €28.9 million. The …
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On March 22nd, at the end of the CMCA’s board meeting in Marseille, Jérôme Cathala was unanimously elected the association’s chairman. He takes over from Hervé Michel, who has been the CMCA chair since October 2013 but has recently been appointed head of TV France International. On February 1st Jérôme Cathala was appointed France Télévisions’ …
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At the end of March, Tunisia’s principle public channel, Al Wataniya 1, and the 24-hour news channel France 24, launched a joint magazine programme, “Paris-Tunis, Tunis-Paris”. Co-produced by the two channels, the programme is recorded alternately between Paris and Tunis, and broadcast on the last Friday of the month, simultaneously on both channels from 7:10 …
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From April 5th to 10th Florence is hosting the seventh Middle East Now – a festival of film and culture. The programming looks at Middle Eastern culture, with screenings, exhibitions, concerts, food tastings and conferences. 44 films from across the Arab world will be screened, and for the first time a Saudi film-maker will be …
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We learned with great sadness of the death on March 19th of Pier Luigi Malesani, Secretary General of COPEAM (Permanent Conference of Mediterranean Audiovisual Operators). After a career which began in Censis (Centro Studi Investimenti Sociali), the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and then the IRI (Instituto per la Riconstruzione Industriale), he joined public service broadcasting …
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