On January 1st 2016 Fabrizio Salini will be replaced by the Australian Kathryn Fink to run the satellite package Fox International Channels (FIC) Italy. Salini announced he would be leaving his post to “pursue new opportunities” in another broadcasting group, which, he added, “would not be in competition with Fox.” He has been Director of …
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Dario Franceschini, the Italian Minister of Culture, presented the principal measures in the stability law passed by the cabinet and sent to the European Commission. It shows that “the Ministry of Culture’s budget will increase by 8% in 2016 and by 10% in 2017”. “Tax credits to support film and broadcasting will be strengthened: the …
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Having announced plans to include the television licence fee in electricity and gas bills, the Italian Government clarified its position on which audiovisual media would be affected by the broadcasting tax a few days before the bill was presented to Parliament. On October 22nd the Italian Under Secretary of State for Communications, Antonello Giacomelli (photo), …
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By September 30th Mediaset Premium’s pay TV had 1.81 million subscribers, exceeding the target set in the Quarterly Budget for July-September 2015, the group said in a statement published on October 9th, with 112,000 more subscribers than at end of June (1.703 million). These figures do not include customers with pre-paid cards. Mediaset has set …
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In a press release on October 5th, the video-on-demand service Netflix announced its first Italian co-production, “Suburra”, in partnership with the production company Cattleya and in collaboration with Rai. Cattleya is already busy with successful series such as “Gomorra” and “Romanzo Criminale”. “Suburra” is an adaptation of Stefano Sollima’s film of the same name released …
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The Italian series “Gomorra”, adapted from Roberto Saviano’s novel, has just started filming its second season. However, several districts and suburbs of Naples such as Giuliano, Acerra and Afragola do not welcome the filming of this series about the Neapolitan Mafia, the Camorra. Thus, as the newspaper Le Monde said: “the mayors and administrators of …
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Karima Zoubir’s documentary “Woman with a Camera”, winner of the Rai 3 Broadcasting Award at PriMed 2014, aired on the Italian channel on August 12th at 11h40pm. It was watched by 411,000 viewers, or 5.57% of the public. The documentary is about Khadija, a young Moroccan woman, illiterate and divorced, who, despite strong resistance from …
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