CBS Studios & RAI Cinema Extend Volume Deal

CANNES: A three-year extension on the programming deal between CBS Studios International and RAI Cinema has been signed.

The agreement includes mini-series, TV movies and feature films. This is the first TV distribution deal in Italy for the new CBS feature-film division, CBS Films.
"RAI Cinema has been an amazing partner for many years, providing a great pipeline for bringing CBS’s programming to Italian audiences," said Armando Nuñez, the president of CBS Studios International. "We are thrilled to be extending this partnership with them."
 
“The renewed deal between CBS and RAI Cinema is instrumental to the accomplishment of RAI’s objectives,” added Paolo Del Brocco, the chief operating officer of RAI Cinema. “This ensures continued and enhanced access to a diversified slate of premium programming which is very important in this phase of transformation of the broadcast market. The relationship continues to be strategic, and CBS a partner of excellence, to the RAI Group.”