News about audiovisual in western Europe region (France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Malta, etc)
On April 15th the Board of Directors of France Télévisions approved the 2015 accounts, which are balanced – the first time since 2012 the group has not ended the year with a deficit. Although the provisional budget, estimated at the end of 2014, forecast a deficit of €9.8 million, the net result is actually slightly …
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The French distributor Aloest Distribution has launched an appeal on the crowd-funding site Kisskissbankbank to raise finance for the theatrical release of Tamara Erde’s Franco-Israeli documentary This Is My Land, winner of the Mediterranean Issues Grand Prix at the 2014 PriMed. Aloest was turned down by France’s Centre National de Cinéma, with the film scheduled …
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On April 9th the 22nd AGM of the Conférence Permanente de l’Audiovisuel Méditerranéen (COPEAM), held in Ajaccio, ratified the renewal of the association’s governing bodies. Talal El Makdessi, CEO of Télé-Liban, was re-elected for a second term as COPEAM’s chairman. Claudio Cappon, former DG of Rai and vice-chair of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), became …
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On April 8th the Italian group Mediaset announced the sale of its entire pay-TV subsidiary Mediaset Premium, which has two million subscribers. Vivendi’s supervisory board approved the €800 million transaction. 89% of Mediaset Premium’s capital was held by Mediaset, while the remaining 11% belonged to the Spanish group Telefonica. Furthermore, as rumoured recently, Vivendi and …
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From April 27th to 30th, Regard Sud, an association based in Lyon, is organising the 16th Cinémas du Sud festival, focussing on North African and Middle Eastern films. Over 4 days, 9 films from 8 countries of the Arab world will be screened at the Institut Lumière. The Tunisan director Ferid Boughedir, will be this …
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According the daily newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore, RAI plans to have all 14 of its channels transmitting in HD by the end of the year. Rai 1, Rai 2, Rai 3, Rai 4 and Rai Sport 1 are already available in HD via Tivùsat, a satellite TV platform. As of May, Rai Movie and …
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In 2015 the Spanish public broadcaster RTVE made an operating loss of €37.8 million. A statement issued after a Board of Directors’ meeting claimed the deficit was caused by “insufficient income” and should be indemnified by the state, as provided by the law regulating RTVE’s finance. The group’s channels also had poor audience ratings in …
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