Lagardère Television International Launches

PARIS, May 16: Lagardère  Active has merged two divisions— Lagardère Networks International (LNI) and Lagardère Images International (LII)—to form Lagardère Television International (LTI).

Lagardère Networks International (LNI) manages the international distribution of branded thematic television channels of Lagardère Active, AB Group, LUXE.TV, Performance Channel and SciTech TV. Since 2003, Lagardère Images International has partnered with the Qatar Foundation for the launch and operations of the pan-Arab Al Jazeera Children’s Channel. All of these activities will now fall under LTI.

Jean Rouilly, the CEO of LNI and LII, is now the CEO of Lagardère  Television International. Olivier Bibas, formerly the secretary general of LNI and LII, has been appointed the deputy managing director of Lagardère Television International.