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Poland's TVN launches original commissions for Player.pl serviceOctober 07, 2015Polish broadcaster TVN is pushing further into online with an investment in five original series. The first series, a Polish version of US comedy Web Therapy, will launch on TVN’s Player.pl service on 21 October. Speaking at the Mipcom TV market in Cannes this morning, TVN executives said the 10 episode series will cost 1 million zlotys ($266 million), a similar budget to one of its traditional linear TV series. Between Q4 this year and Q1 2016, TVN will also debut two reality series, Lip Sync Battle and Start U Up, documentary series My Love Story and drama co-production Cape Town.Subscribers Only
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BBC wants to scrap programme production quotasJuly 10, 2014The BBC wants to transform the way it makes programmes, scrapping the current quota system regulating external commissions and potentially allowing its in-house teams to make programnmes for other broadcasters. Tony Hall, the director-general of the BBC, described the strategy as 'compete or compare' in a speech this morning at a seminar on the future of the licence fee.
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Netflix raises its game with House of CardsFebruary 01, 2013Netflix is challenging the traditional model of TV programme distribution with the premiere of House of Cards, its first original drama series commission, on its US and international streaming services today...
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Zon Multimedia and Sportinveste bid to form sports rights conglomerateDecember 21, 2012Three Portuguese companies - pay TV platform Zon Multimedia, sports rights company Sportinveste and its subsidiary PPTV - have agreed to consolidate their shareholdings in the premium TV business Sport TV...
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Discovery buys SBS Nordic, talks with TF1December 14, 2012Discovery Communications is buying SBS Nordic, a group of free-to-air TV networks and radio stations, from the ProSiebenSat1 group. The deal is valued at $1.7bn (€1.325bn). The US cable network programmer...
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Nordic pay TV players renew key movie dealsSeptember 26, 2012MTG and C More Group, competing pay TV operators in the Nordic region, have announced a string of movie rights deal renewals as they prepare to face the imminent launch of Netflix and HBO Nordic. MTG, which...
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CSA greenlights Canal Plus takeover of free-to-air channelsSeptember 19, 2012French pay TV group Canal Plus will move further into free to air TV this month having received clearance for its takeover of two digital terrestrial channels from broadcasting regulator the CSA. The decision...
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Canal Plus eyes profitable move into free TVMarch 02, 2012Canal Plus Groupe, once the leader of the European pay TV sector, is targeting free TV as a key area for expansion and one that it expects to generate a majority of its operating profit by 2015. Speaking at...
