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Endemol Shine hires Lat Am sales director

Endemol Shine has recruited Luciana Nogueira as sales director, Latin America. In the newly-created role, she joins from Media Mundi Brasil, where she was international distribution manager. She will report to Veronique Verges, ESI’s senior VP, Latin America and US Hispanic, who already handles sales into the region and Brazil. The new recruit starts this […]

BBC Worldwide creates Nordic base

BBC Worldwide is setting up a Nordic-specific production operation based in Denmark and has brought an exec over from Nordisk Film TV to run the division. The commercial arm of the UK pubcaster will fully own BBC Worldwide Productions Nordics. The new unit has partnered with Banijay’s Nordisk, which will make any BBCWW formats locally […]

AwesomenessTV launching in the UK

DreamWorks-backed YouTube channel AwesomenessTV is available in the UK from today. The channel targets a youth and teens demo, and in the US has 3.5 million subs. The ‘schedule’ will see new advice videos uploaded on Mondays, fashion and beauty content on Tuesdays and entertainment clips on Wednesdays. The UK version of Awesomeness will feature […]

Red Arrow’s Ripple poaches YouTube’s Bailey

Red Arrow’s Ripple Entertainment has hired Bailey Rosser from YouTube as it continues to staff up. Red Arrow, the content arm of ProSiebenSat.1, backed Ripple from its launch last year. The LA-based digital content firm was founded by former FremantleMedia execs Gayle Gilman and Jason Ziemianski. Rosser joins from YouTube where she was an audience […]

Berlin: Shine France discovers DR’s DNA

Shine France is set to board a new Danish drama from pubcaster DR. TBI understands the final elements of an agreement are being worked out, after which Shine France, part of the Endemol Shine Group, will coproduce the series with Warner Bros.-owned Eyeworks Scandi Fiction. Investigative crime drama DNA comes from writer Torleif Hoppe, whose […]

Cable industry hits out at FCC pay TV plans

The National Cable and Telecommunications Association (NCTA) has hit back at FCC plans to “unlock the set-top box” in the US market. On a conference call this week, NCTA president Michael Powell said the FCC proposal would take up to seven years to fully implement, by which time the video market may look very different […]

Orange France reviews content strategy

Orange is to review its content strategy, but will stop short of investing in its own original content, according to CEO Stéphane Richard. Speaking at an analyst presentation after the company released its full-year results this week, Richard said that the company’s executive committee has been charged with organising a seminar on future content options. […]

RTL’s De Posch confirmed for MIPTV

RTL boss Guillaume de Posch will give a keynote address at MIPTV about how the pan-European TV group has embraced digital. The keynote is dubbed ‘TV= total video’ and takes place on the Monday of the market (April 4). The RTL chief joins other confirmed MIP speakers including author Harlan Coben, who has made The […]

Seven parent swings into profit

The parent company of Australian commercial broadcaster Seven Network has posted a half-year underlying profit of A$140.3 million (US$100.7 million), turning round significant losses last year. Total revenues for Seven West Media’s financial half-year to December 26, 2015, were A$892.9 million. Most of this came from the firm’s TV assets. Earnings for the same period […]

VH1 takes hip-hop film to series

VH1 is making The Breaks, a hip-hop series that will follow on from its original TV movie of the same name. The Breaks the series will bow later this year on the Viacom-owned net. The movie went out in January and was the top cable show among 18-34s in its 11pm slot. The project is […]