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  Turkish TV to broadcast programs on food safety

  November 4, 2011 / Turkey

  All Turkish broadcasting stations will have to broadcast programs about food safety and security, plant health, animal health and soil conservation, according to a statutory decree issued by the Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Livestock. The statutory decree was issued on Nov. 2 to define the duties and organization of the Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Livestock and includes a requirement for the broadcast. According to the statutory decree, the state-owned Turkish Radio and Television Corporation (TRT) and all the other [...]

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  Russian TV host told off by minister ‘on point of ethics’

  November 4, 2011 / Russia

  Russian Foreign Minister  has warned TV host Vladimir Pozner not to quote him out of context and observe the journalistic code of ethics.   In a letter posted on the Foreign Ministry’s website, Lavrov said Pozner had distorted his recent remarks by picking only one “quote” from an extensive interview on the issue of the 1940 Katyn massacre.   “I urge you in future to quote me faithfully before dwelling from the TV screen on the bounds of hypocrisy and [...]

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  Bloomberg Disney Buys Stake in Russian TV Network to Expand Disney Channel

  November 3, 2011 / Russia

  Walt Disney Co., owner of ABC television, agreed to buy a 49 percent stake in Russia’s SevenTV network and will rename it the Disney Channel. Disney is acquiring the stake from United Television Holding Russia, a Moscow-based TV broadcaster, the Burbank, California-based company said today in a statement. Financial terms weren’t disclosed. The U.S. entertainment company currently provides Disney Channel programs to cable and satellite operators in Russia. SevenTV reaches more than 75 percent of the country’s viewers through a [...]

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  Russian TV pulls report on Chechnya kidnappings

  November 3, 2011 / Russia

  Less than six months before a March presidential election, Russian television reporters say privately that they are under pressure to steer clear of topics their bosses feel might needle the Kremlin. Chechnya is one of those topics. After two separatist wars since 1994, the Kremlin relies on local Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov – a former rebel and amateur boxer – to maintain the shaky peace and keep an Islamist insurgency in check. Rights groups say forces under Kadyrov act with [...]

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  Elisabetta Canalis: George Clooney Was “Like a Father” to Me

  November 3, 2011 / Italy

  At 50 years old, George Clooney is just old enough to be a father to his ex-girlfriend Elisabetta Canalis. And, well, he kind of was! “He was a very special person for me – like a father,” Canalis, 33, tells Italian broadcaster Bruno Vespa in his new book This Love. The Italian model and TV personality parted ways with actor Clooney over the summer after about two years together. He quickly rebounded with another  younger woman, former WWE wrestler Stacy [...]

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  France TV lines up international copros

  November 3, 2011 / France

  Public broadcaster France Televisions’ international coproduction arm is aiming to develop two international series for each of its main channels per year. The first project involving the division, crime comedy series Death In Paradise, was launched at Mipcom last week. The show originated from the UK’s Red Planet and was coproduced with the BBC and ‘s Atlantique Productions in France. In Cannes, France Televisions’ head of international coproductions Sophie Gigon was looking to meet other potential partners. “We are now [...]

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  Spanish TV broadcaster La Sexta launches new channels La Sexta 3 and La Sexta HD

  November 3, 2011 / Spain

  La Sexta 2 will be redesigned to fit into the bouquet of channels by specialising in reality content with some news, current affairs and documentary programming Spanish TV broadcaster La Sexta launches new channels La Sexta 3 and La Sexta HD Spanish free-to-air broadcaster La Sexta has launched a pair of new channels and overhauled the programming line-up at its existing second channel La Sexta 2. The Mediapro-backed broadcaster has launched La Sexta 3, a classic scripted series and movies [...]

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  Spanish TV advertising prices drop 5%

  November 3, 2011 / Spain

  The Spanish TV advertising industry fears the creation of a duopoly following a 5% fall in the average price of the TV advertising due to a general lack of investment during the country’s financial crisis. According to data from infoadex, in the first half of 2011, the Spanish national TV in-the-clear networks banked €1.069 billion in advertising, 5.4% less than in 2010. Yet, said the Spanish Advertisers’ Association (AEA), the industry is now suffering from the decision in 2010 from [...]

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  Spanish TV ads buck trends

  November 3, 2011 / Spain

  Contrary to what is happening to the whole Spanish media sector in relation to advertising sales, television is still holding up according to Infoadex’s latest report. The study by the advertising consultancy recognises that even though TV advertising incomes have gone down by 7.5% in the first nine months this year, this still represents € 1.635 billion worth of business. That said, success depends on specific types of television business. Infoadex also revealed the full extent of in-the-clear investments which [...]

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  Italian pay-TV revenues reach €3.2bn

  November 3, 2011 / Italy

  After last year’s strong growth of sales of premium subscriptions for digital TV platforms, revenues in 2011 should remain fairly stable at around €3.2 billion, according to the “Digital Markets” research conducted by the Smau Observatory-School of Management of the Milan Polytechnic. At the same time, the number of subscribers continues go grow, both on digital terrestrial with Mediaset Premium (almost 4.5 million) and on satellite, with Sky Italia reaching 5 million subscribers. For its part, DTH platform TivùSat reached [...]

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  Sky Italia set to pass Mediaset

  November 3, 2011 / Italy

  Rupert Murdoch’s Sky Italia is expected to overtake prime minister Silvio Berlusconi’s Mediaset as Italy’s top-earning commercial TV player in 2013, according to a report by ITMedia Consulting. After years of steady growth “for the first time, the television market as a whole in Italy is undergoing a recessive phase,” said the study, titled “The Television Market in Italy: 2011-2013 — New challenges for the crisis years.” With the country’s advertising market likely to suffer the longterm impact of the [...]

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  Orange TV launches dedicated 3D magazine

  November 3, 2011 / France

  French IPTV platform Orange is coproducing a new TV magazine shot in stereoscopic 3D and dedicated to the world of the third dimension. In association with Troisième Œil Productions, the new half-hour programme, entitled Mag3D, will be the first one entirely dedicated to 3D TV technology in France. It will offer a range of topics to inform, educate and entertain the viewer about 3D, including new film releases, sports events, documentaries, video games etc. Mag3D will also allow viewers to [...]

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